The Human Reimagined : Posthumanism in Russia

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Part One -- Introduction / McQuillen, Colleen / Vaingurt, Julia -- Part Two: Questions of Ethics and Alterity -- CHAPTER 1. Our Posthuman Past: Subjectivity, History, and Utopia in Late-Soviet Science Fiction / Gomel, El...
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Part One -- Introduction / McQuillen, Colleen / Vaingurt, Julia -- Part Two: Questions of Ethics and Alterity -- CHAPTER 1. Our Posthuman Past: Subjectivity, History, and Utopia in Late-Soviet Science Fiction / Gomel, Elana -- CHAPTER 2. Digressions in Progress: Posthuman Loneliness and the Will to Play in the Work of the Strugatsky Brothers / Vaingurt, Julia -- CHAPTER 3. Humans, Animals, Machines: Scenarios of Raschelovechivanie in Gray Goo and Matisse / Khagi, Sofya -- Part Three: Natural, Built, and Imagined Environments -- CHAPTER 4. Human Adaptation in Late-Soviet Environmental Science Fiction / McQuillen, Colleen -- CHAPTER 5. “Drilled Humans” or Automated Systems? Reconsidering Human-Machine Integration in Late-Soviet Design / West, Diana Kurkovsky -- Part Four: Technologies of the Self -- CHAPTER 6. Romantic Aesthetics and Cybernetic Fiction / Emery, Jacob -- CHAPTER 7. Writing and Technology: Writing the Self in “Real Time” / Toland, Kristina -- CHAPTER 8. Modes of Perception in Transmodal Fiction: New Russian Subjectivity / Lakhmitko, Katerina -- Part Five: Politics and Social Action -- CHAPTER 9. Nothing but Mammals: Post-Soviet Sexuality after the End of History / Wilson, Trevor -- CHAPTER 10. Postsocialist Platonov: The Question of Humanism and the New Russian Left / Platt, Jonathan Brooks -- Part Six: Artistic Practices -- CHAPTER 11. An Interview with Keti Chukhrov about Love Machines / Kotova, Alina -- CHAPTER 12. Some Entropy in Your Tea: Notes on the Ontopoetics of Artificial Intelligence / Anikina, Alex -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung