Speculative Realism and Science Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781474422697 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 240 str.

Brian Willems

Opis

Brian Willems draws on the science fiction of Cormac McCarthy, Paolo Bacigalupi, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Doris Lessing and Kim Stanley Robinson alongside speculative materialists including Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux and Jane Bennett, to try and imagine the end of anthropomorphism.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Zug Effect; 2. Divine Paraphrase: Cormac McCarthy; 3. Double-Vision: Neil Gaiman; 4. Subtraction and Contradiction: China Miéville; 5. Tension and Phase: Doris Lessing; 6. Animal Death: Paolo Bacigalupi; 7. Transcription: Kim Stanley Robinson; Conclusion; Bibliography; Notes; Index.