The uncertain future of empathy : : posthumanism, cyberculture and science fiction / / edited by Elsa Bouet.

• TeilnehmendeR: Bouet, Elsa,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, England : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Toying with Intention: Embodiment, Empathy and Programmed Intentionality in New Media / Mari-Lou Rowley -- Virtuous War and UAVs: The ‘Inhibition’ of Friction and the Banalization of Violence / Alcides Eduardo dos Reis Peron -- Serial Communication Experiments: You Can (Not) Advance / Antony Chun-man Tam -- Cyberculture and Ethics in Generation A and Super Sad True Love Story / Reinhold Kramer -- Of Flesh and Bone: Finding Human Sameness in the ‘Skinjobs’ of Battlestar Galactica / Teresa Botelho -- Dreams of Sheep: Humanity as a Discursive Formation in Battlestar Galactica / Yonatan Englender -- In the Absence of Flesh, Bodies Made Anew: Transparency, Avatars and the Holographic Body in Hollywood Cinema (1980-2010) / Pia Pandelakis -- The Technological Utopia in Hollywood: The Surrogate as Contemporary Paradigm for Posthumanity in Surrogates (2009) and Gamer (2009) / Mehdi Achouche -- Marge Piercy’s Body of Glass and the Cyborg-Human Relationship: Fear or Hope for the Twenty-First Century / Miguel Nenevé and Nayra Gomes -- Digressions in Progress: Posthuman Loneliness and the Will to Play in the Work of the Strugatsky Brothers / Julia Vaingurt -- Bodily Imagination from Suprematism to Cyberpunk / Colleen McQuillen -- The Colonized Pastoral: Africa, Myth, Alienation and Blackness in Greg Bear’s Queen of Angels / Selena Middleton -- Imprisonment in the Fiction of Christopher Priest -- Totalitarian Literature: Realism and Reality / Luana Signorelli Faria da Costa.