书目名称 | The Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics |
副标题 | Human, Superhuman, T |
编辑 | Scott Jeffery |
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概述 | Investigates the underground root systems that connect the Transhuman, the Post/Human and the comic book Superhuman.Analyzes superheros through the lens of Post/Humanism.Introduces a fresh theoretical |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels |
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描述 | .This book examines the concepts of Post/Humanism and Transhumanism asdepicted in superhero comics. Recent decades have seen mainstream audiencesembrace the comic book Superhuman. Meanwhile there has been increasing concernsurrounding human enhancement technologies, with the techno-scientificmovement of Transhumanism arguing that it is time humans took active controlof their evolution. Utilising Deleuzeand Guattari’s notion of the rhizome as a non-hierarchical system of knowledgeto conceptualize the superhero narrative in terms of its political, social andaesthetic relations to the history of human technological enhancement, thisbook draws upon a diverse range of texts to explore the way in which theposthuman has been represented in superhero comics, while simultaneouslyhighlighting its shared historical development with Post/Humanist criticaltheory and the material techno-scientific practices of Transhumanism.. |
出版日期 | Book 2016 |
关键词 | Posthuman; Posthumanism; Transhumanism; superhero; comic studies; Sociology of the body; human enhancement |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54950-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-137-54950-1Series ISSN 2634-6370 Series E-ISSN 2634-6389 |
issn_series | 2634-6370 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 |