Representations of the Post/human: Monsters, Aliens and Others in Popular CultureThis work draws together a wide range of literature on contemporary technologies and their ethical implications. It focuses on advances in medical, reproductive, genetic and information technologies. |
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Contents
On being human | 1 |
Enslavement or liberation? | 6 |
Representing the posthuman | 10 |
The promise of monsters | 11 |
Science as salvation | 16 |
Representing the posthuman | 20 |
Representation rhetoric and reality | 25 |
Ontological hygiene | 33 |
The good universe next door | 134 |
Data | 137 |
the Borg | 144 |
Seven of Nine | 148 |
Star Trek and representations of the posthuman | 152 |
Nietzsche gets a modem transhumanism and the technological sublime | 154 |
Technocratic futurism | 155 |
Technochantment | 165 |
The gates of difference | 38 |
The self made strange | 40 |
The gates of difference | 47 |
Fabulation | 55 |
Posthuman genealogies | 59 |
What made Victors creature monstrous? | 62 |
Born or made? | 64 |
Naming the beast | 69 |
Revolting monsters | 71 |
Was Victor a mad scientist? | 73 |
Whose monstrosity? Whose humanity? | 77 |
Body of clay body of glass | 84 |
On the golem and its symbolism | 87 |
The silence of the golem | 92 |
The servant | 95 |
Through the lookingglass | 101 |
Body of clay body of glass | 107 |
In whose image? The politics of representation | 109 |
Biopower and parenting | 111 |
The geneticization of the posthuman | 117 |
In whose image? | 123 |
Much ado about Data | 132 |
Technopaganism | 168 |
Nietzsches modem | 173 |
The end of the human? | 176 |
Dehumanization and dystopia | 177 |
Humans as machines | 181 |
Virtual posthumanities | 187 |
Monsters in metropolis | 193 |
Your Aura will not be your own | 196 |
Cyborg writing | 200 |
Cyborg manifestations | 201 |
Cyborg writing | 204 |
Cyborgs or goddesses? | 211 |
The crossedout God | 217 |
Gods and monsters | 221 |
Technology and ontology | 223 |
Toward a posthuman ethic | 225 |
Religion culture and gender | 230 |
Beyond transcendence | 231 |
REFERENCES | 235 |
INDEX | 253 |
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| Title | Representations of the Post/human: Monsters, Aliens and Others in Popular Culture Manchester Studies in Religion Manchester studies in religion, culture, and gender |
| Author | Elaine L. Graham |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0719054427, 9780719054426 |
| Length | 259 pages |
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