Even though the fantastic (in its most inclusive definition) has been a part of our culture for as long as it exists, it has not been a prominent feature of European academic interest. With its inherent transgressive moment the fantastic allows for an ideal space of the cultural negotiation of political, social and physical boundaries, which should place it at the center of popular cultural research, not as is the case, at its periphery. But the commencing boom of fantastic themes in contemporary media production has facilitated a paradigmatic change in research, prompting a wide interest...
Even though the fantastic (in its most inclusive definition) has been a part of our culture for as long as it exists, it has not been a prominent f...
Obwohl die Fantastik (in ihrer umfassenden Definition) immer schon ein Teil unserer Kultur und in ihrer inharenten Transgressivitat ideal fur die Verhandlung kultureller, politischer, sozialer und physischer Grenzen geeignet war, besteht bis heute nur eine zogerliche wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit diesem von den Fachdisziplinen an den Rand gedrangten Bereich der Popularkultur. Dank des Booms der Fantastik, der in Form von Fantasy, Horror und Science Fiction seit den 1990er Jahren fur ein immenses mediales Aufsehen sorgt, besteht von Seiten der Forschung aber seit neuestem ein...
Obwohl die Fantastik (in ihrer umfassenden Definition) immer schon ein Teil unserer Kultur und in ihrer inharenten Transgressivitat ideal fur die V...
Biopunk Dystopias contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined by the rise of biology as the driving force of scientific progress, a strongly grown mainstream attention given to genetic engineering in the wake of the Human Genome Project (1990-2003), the changing sociological view of a liquid modern society, and shifting discourses on the posthuman, including a critical posthumanism that decenters the privileged subject of humanism. The book argues that this historical nexus produces a specific cultural formation in the form of "biopunk," a subgenre evolved from...
Biopunk Dystopias contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined by the rise of biology as the driving force of scientific pr...
