The uncertain future of empathy : : posthumanism, cyberculture and science fiction / / edited by Elsa Bouet.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oxford, England : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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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.