The human reimagined
Subtitle: posthumanism in Russia
By: edited and introduced by Colleen McQuillen and Julia Vaingurt
Series: Cultural revolutions: Russia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; Cultural revolutions
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781618117793; 9781618117328
Subjects: Human body and technology in art; Art; Human body and technology in literature; Russian literature; Humanism in literature; History and criticism; Humanism in art
Other titles: Posthumanism in Russia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Critical posthumanism ; Posthumanism in Russia; title: Questions of ethics and alterity. Our posthuman past: subjectivity, history and utopia in late-Soviet science fiction / Elana Gomel, Tel Aviv University ; Digressions in progress: posthuman loneliness and the will to play in the work of the Strugatsky Brothers / Julia Vaingurt, University of Illinois at Chicago ; Humans, animals, machines: scenarios of raschelovechivanie in Gray Goo and Matisse / Sofya Khagi, University of Michigan; title: Natural, built, and imagined environments. Environmentalism and the man of the future: discursive practices in the 1970s / Colleen McQuillen, University of Illinois at Chicago ; Daedalus and the Cyborg: human-machine hybridity in late-Soviet design / Diana Kurkovsky, West European University at St. Petersburg ; Some entropy in your tea: notes on the ontopoetics of artificial intelligence / Alex Anikina, Goldsmiths, University of London; title: Technologies of the self. Romantic aesthetics and cybernetic fiction / Jacob Emery, Indiana University ; Writing and technology: writing the self in "real time" / Kristina Toland, Bowdoin College ; Modes of perception in transmodal fiction: new Russian subjectivity / Katerina Lakhmitko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; title: Politics and social action. Nothing but mammals: post-Soviet sexuality after the end of history / Trevor Wilson, University of Pittsburgh ; Postsocialist Platonov: the question of humanism and the new Russian left / Jonathan Brooks Platt, University of Pittsburgh; title: Afterword / Keti Chukhrov, an interview by Alina Kotova about Love Machines.