Screening the Posthuman

ISBN-13: 9780197538562 / Angielski

Missy Molloy; Pansy Duncan; Claire Henry

Opis

From AI to climate change, recent technological, ecological, and cultural transformations have unsettled established assumptions about the relationship between the human and the more-than-human world. Screening the Posthuman addresses a heterogenous body of twenty-first century films that turn to the figure of the "posthuman" as a means of exploring this development. Through close analyses of films as diverse as K^uki ningy^o [Air Doll] (dir. Hirokazu Koreeda 2009), Testrol 'es l'elekrol [On Body and Soul] (dir. Ildiko Enyedi 2017) and Nomadland (dir. Chlo'e Zhao 2020), this wide-ranging volume shows that, while often identified as the remit of science fiction, the posthuman on screen crosses filmic genres, national contexts, and industrial settings. In the process, posthuman cinema emphasizes humanity's entanglement in broader biological, technological, and social worlds and exposes new models of subjectivity, community, and desire. In advancing these arguments, Screening the Posthuman draws on scholarship associated with critical posthumanist theoryDLan ongoing project unified by a decentering of the "human". As the first systematic, full-length application of this body of scholarship to cinema, Screening the Posthuman advocates for a rigorous posthumanist critique that avoids both humanist nostalgia and transhumanist fantasy in its attention to the excitements and anxieties of posthuman experience.

Recenzje

In summary, Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry, and Missy Molloy have fashioned an impressive critical exercise on posthuman theory that will surely serve as a crucial text and foundational source of scholarship in the emerging, evolving discourse in our collective engagement with the posthuman, in an ever decentralized contemporary understanding of what it means to be human.

O autorze

Missy Molloy is Senior Lecturer in Film at Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand. Pansy Duncan is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Massey University in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Claire Henry is Lecturer in Screen at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia.