Stuart Fletcher Murray - Böcker

An Open Access edition of this book is availableon the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Disability and the Posthuman is the first study to analyse culturalrepresentations and deployments of disability as they interact withposthumanist theories of technology and embodiment. Working across a wide rangeof texts, many new to critical enquiry, in contemporary writing, film andcultural practice from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Japan, it coversa diverse range of topics, including: contemporary cultural theory andaesthetics; design, engineering and gender; the visualisation of prosthetictechnologies in the representation of war and conflict; and depictions of work,time and sleep. While noting the potential limitations of posthumanistassessments of the technologized body, the study argues that there areexciting, productive possibilities and subversive potentials in the dialoguebetween disability and posthumanism as they generate dissident crossings ofcultural spaces. Such intersections cover both fictional/imagined andmaterial/grounded examples of disability and look to a future in which thedevelopment of technology and complex embodiment of disability presence align toproduce sustainable yet radical creative and critical voices.

An Open Access edition of this book is availableon the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Disability and the Posthuman is the first study to analyse culturalrepresentations and deployments of disability as they interact withposthumanist theories of technology and embodiment. Working across a wide rangeof texts, many new to critical enquiry, in contemporary writing, film andcultural practice from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Japan, it coversa diverse range of topics, including: contemporary cultural theory andaesthetics; design, engineering and gender; the visualisation of prosthetictechnologies in the representation of war and conflict; and depictions of work,time and sleep. While noting the potential limitations of posthumanistassessments of the technologized body, the study argues that there areexciting, productive possibilities and subversive potentials in the dialoguebetween disability and posthumanism as they generate dissident crossings ofcultural spaces. Such intersections cover both fictional/imagined andmaterial/grounded examples of disability and look to a future in which thedevelopment of technology and complex embodiment of disability presence align toproduce sustainable yet radical creative and critical voices.

From concerns of an ‘autism epidemic’ to the MMR vaccine crisis, autism is a source of peculiar fascination in the contemporary media. Discussion of the condition has been largely framed within medicine, psychiatry and education but there has been no exploration of its power within representative narrative forms. Representing Autism is the first book to tackle this approach, using contemporary fiction and memoir writing, film, photography, drama and documentary together with older texts to set the contemporary fascination with autism in context. Representing Autism analyses and evaluates the place of autism within contemporary culture and at the same time examines the ideas of individual and community produced by people with autism themselves to establish the ideas of autistic presence that emerge from within a space of cognitive exceptionality. Central to the book is a sense of the legitimacy of autistic presence as a way by which we might more fully articulate what it means to be human.