Living in Technical Legality: Science Fiction and Law as Technology

ISBN-13: 9781474420891 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str.

Kieran Tranter

Opis

Through detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television's Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this is the first sustained examination of legality in science fiction.

Spis treści

List of Figures; Preface; Introduction: Living in Technical Legality; Part I: Technical Legality: 1. From Law and Technology to Law as Technology; 2. Dune, Modern Law and the Alchemy of Death and Time; 3. Battlestar Galactica, Technology and Lfe; Part II: Living in Technical Legality: 4. Xenogenesis and the Technical Legal Subject; 5. The Doctor and technical lawyering; 6. Mad Max and Mapping the Monsters in the Networks; 7. Deserts and Technical Legality; Bibliography; Notes; Index.