Sex, Death and Resurrection in Altered Carbon: Essays on the Netflix Series

ISBN-13: 9781476679624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 204 str.

Aldona Kobus; Lukasz Muniowski

Spis treści

Introduction
Aldona Kobus and Łukasz Muniowski 1
Sex
"Technology advances, but humans don't": ­Neo-Noir Women,
Psychoanalysis and Transhuman Love (Alexander N. Howe) 15
The Flinching Edge: Sex, Consensual Death(lessness)
and the ­Limit-Experience in Altered Carbon (Kwasu David Tembo) 27
Functions of Sex Scenes in Altered Carbon (Michał Klata) 39
Sleeves
The Materiality of Reality: The Floating Consciousness in Altered Carbon (Esra Köksal and Burcu Baykan) 51
Embodiment in Altered Carbon (Lars Schmeink) 67
Wearing Wellness on Your Sleeve: On Meths, ­Self-Control
and Capitalism (Łukasz Muniowski) 81
New (Cloned) Bodies for the Old: Biopolitics in Altered Carbon (Aline Ferreira) 90
"Meths" versus "Quellists": Altered Carbon as the Battleground of Two Ideologies (Damla Pehlivan) 105
Look Who's Talking: Haunted Bodies and Uncanny Voices
in Altered Carbon (Dariusz Brzostek) 118
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk Resleeved: How Netflix's Altered Carbon Reformats
Its Cyberpunk Ancestry (Adam Edwards) 129
Another Kind of War: The Manufacturing of History
in Altered Carbon (Kenneth Matthews) 144
The Present of the Dead: Spectral Ideology in Altered Carbon (Aldona Kobus) 155
Nevermore! Poesque Thanatophobia as ­Counter-Narrative (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar) 177
About the Contributors 191
Index 195