Aldona Kobus is a professor in the department of cultural studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. She specializes in fan studies, popular culture studies and research concerning women’s authorship. Lukasz Muniowski (Ph.D., American literature, University of Warsaw) has written numerous academic articles on various topics, including gentrification, geek culture, American literature, video games and television series. He lives in Poland.

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

Aldona Kobus is a professor in the department of cultural studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. She specializes in fan studies, popular culture studies and research concerning women’s authorship. Lukasz Muniowski (Ph.D., American literature, University of Warsaw) has written numerous academic articles on various topics, including gentrification, geek culture, American literature, video games and television series. He lives in Poland.

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

Aldona Kobus is a professor in the department of cultural studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. She specializes in fan studies, popular culture studies and research concerning women’s authorship. Lukasz Muniowski (Ph.D., American literature, University of Warsaw) has written numerous academic articles on various topics, including gentrification, geek culture, American literature, video games and television series. He lives in Poland.

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