wyszukanych pozycji: 17
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Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction
ISBN: 9783030961916 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction explores how much technology has reshaped feminist conversations in the decades since Donna Haraway’s influential “Cyborg Manifesto” was published. With sections exploring reproductive technologies, new ways of imagining femininity and motherhood via artificial means, queer readings of gender as a social technology, and posthuman visions of a world beyond gender, this book demonstrates how feminist speculative fiction offers an urgently needed response to the intersections...
Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction explores how much technology has r...
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502,35 zł |
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Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780262539999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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66,15 zł |
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The Wire
ISBN: 9780814335901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Frequently described by creator David Simon as a novel for television, "The Wire "redefined the police serial format by unfolding its narrative across many episodes, constructing themes for each of its seasons, and refusing to portray individual crimes outside of their social context. While it never achieved spectacular ratings or won an Emmy during its 2002-2008 run on HBO, the show was honored with several awards and has been described by critics as the best show on television. In this volume, author Sherryl Vint takes a close look at several episodes of "The Wire" to argue that the... Frequently described by creator David Simon as a novel for television, "The Wire "redefined the police serial format by unfolding its narrative acr... |
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122,37 zł |
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Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal
ISBN: 9781846318153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human. It argues that the academic field of animal studies and the popular genre of science fiction share a number a critical concerns: thinking about otherness and the nature of human being; desiring communication across species difference; and interrogating the social and ethical consequences of changes in science and technology. We are living in a complex set of contradictory and conflicting relations with non-human animals. This book maps this complex terrain, arguing...
Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human. It argues that the a...
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149,01 zł |
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After the Human: Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781108819169 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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167,76 zł |
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Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed
ISBN: 9781441118745 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From its beginnings in the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne to the virtual worlds of William Gibson's Neuromancer and The Matrix, Science Fiction: A Guide to the Perplexed helps students navigate the often perplexing worlds of a perennially popular genre. Drawing on literature as well as example from film and television, the book explores the different answers that criticism has offered to the vexed question, 'what is science fiction?' Each chapter of the book includes case studies of key texts, annotated guides to further reading and suggestions for class... From its beginnings in the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne to the virtual worlds of William Gibson's Neuromancer and The Matrix, ... |
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404,59 zł |
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Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780802090522 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Anxieties about embodiment and posthumanism have always found an outlet in the science fiction of the day. In Bodies of Tomorrow, Sherryl Vint argues for a new model of an ethical and embodied posthuman subject through close readings of the works of Gwyneth Jones, Octavia Butler, Iain M. Banks, William Gibson, and other science fiction authors. Vint's discussion is firmly contextualized by discussions of contemporary technoscience, specifically genetics and information technology, and the implications of this technology for the way we consider human subjectivity. Engaging... Anxieties about embodiment and posthumanism have always found an outlet in the science fiction of the day. In Bodies of Tomorrow, Sherryl ... |
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268,03 zł |
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After the Human: Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781108836661 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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577,46 zł |
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Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed
ISBN: 9781441194602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From its beginnings in the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne to the virtual worlds of William Gibson's Neuromancer and The Matrix, Science Fiction: A Guide to the Perplexed helps students navigate the often perplexing worlds of a perennially popular genre. Drawing on literature as well as example from film and television, the book explores the different answers that criticism has offered to the vexed question, 'what is science fiction?' Each chapter of the book includes case studies of key texts, annotated guides to further reading and suggestions for class... From its beginnings in the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne to the virtual worlds of William Gibson's Neuromancer and The Matrix, ... |
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121,33 zł |
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Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal
ISBN: 9781846312342 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human. It argues that the academic field of animal studies and the popular genre of science fiction share a number a critical concerns: thinking about otherness and the nature of human being; desiring communication across species difference; and interrogating the social and ethical consequences of changes in science and technology. We are living in a complex set of contradictory and conflicting relations with non-human animals. This book maps this complex terrain, arguing...
Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human. It argues that the a...
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582,93 zł |
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Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781487524999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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156,78 zł |
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Science Fiction and Cultural Theory: A Reader
ISBN: 9781138814998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Science Fiction and Cultural Theory: A Reader is an essential resource for literature students studying science fiction, science and popular culture, and contemporary theory. This book combines key theories that have become touchstones for work in the field with more recent thinking to showcase how theoretical paradigms central to science fiction such as posthumanism and mediation have become central to critical theory overall in the twenty-first century. The book is divided into four parts:
Science Fiction and Cultural Theory: A Reader is an essential resource for literature students studying science fiction, science and popular cultur... |
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252,82 zł |
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Programming the Future: Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV
ISBN: 9780231198318 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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133,09 zł |
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Programming the Future: Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV
ISBN: 9780231198301 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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532,35 zł |
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The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780415435703 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The term 'science fiction' has an established common usage, but close examination reveals that writers, fans, editors, scholars, and publishers often use this word in different ways for different reasons. Exploring how science fiction has emerged through competing versions and the struggle to define its limits, this Concise History:
The term 'science fiction' has an established common usage, but close examination reveals that writers, fans, editors, scholars, and publishers oft... |
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682,74 zł |
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Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 9781108839006 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through biotechnology has far-reaching implications for how we think of personhood, agency, and value. Sherryl Vint argues that neoliberalism is reinventing life under biocapital. She offers new biopolitical figurations that can help theoretically grasp and politically respond to a distinctive twenty-first-century biopolitics. This book theorizes how biotechnology intervenes in the very processes of biological function, reshaping life itself to serve economic ends....
Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through biotechnology has ...
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222,05 zł |
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The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780367690533 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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1087,33 zł |