Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction

Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction

Vint, Sherryl

Cambridge University Press

10/2021

280

Dura

Inglês

9781108839006

15 a 20 dias

520

Descrição não disponível.
Introduction: neoliberalism and the reinvention of life; 1. Suspending death, reinventing life: the immortal vessel; 2. The new flesh: vital machines and reimagining the human; 3. Capital reproduction: maternity and productivity; 4. Surplus value: transplantation and fungible life; 5. Life industries: vitality as commodity; 6. Living to work: biocapital, synthetic biology, and the precaritization of labor; 7. Life optimized: pharmaceutical health and disposable bodies; 8. Surplus vitality and posthuman possibilities; Conclusion: capitalism, biopolitics, and a new body politic.