Speculative Realism and Science Fiction

AvBrian Willems

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Brian Willems draws on the science fiction of Cormac McCarthy, Paolo Bacigalupi, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville, Doris Lessing and Kim Stanley Robinson alongside speculative materialists including Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux and Jane Bennett. By questioning it, these writers and philosophers both develop and challenge anthropomorphism. Willems looks at how nonsense and sense exist together in science fiction, the way that language is not a guarantee of personhood, the role of vision in relation to identity formation, the difference between metamorphosis and modulation, representations of non-human deaths and the function of plasticity within the Anthropocene.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-11-09
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Speculative Realism
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474422697

Utforska kategorier

Science fiction inom Fantasy, SciFi och skräck

Mer om författaren

Brian Willems is Assistant Professor of literature and film at the University of Split, Croatia. He is the author of Hopkins and Heidegger (Continuum, 2009), Facticity, Poverty and Clones: On Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (Atropos Press, 2010) and Shooting the Moon (Zero Books, 2015). He is co-editor of The First Ten Years of English Studies in Split (Split University, 2011).

Recensioner i media

Brian Willems’s recent monograph serves as a much-needed addition to studies of both sf and the evolving strand of philosophical thought known as speculative realism.

Innehållsförteckning

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