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Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction

By Sherryl Vint

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
1108839002, 9781108839006
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1205607 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
Pages
280\282
Topic
Literature
Time added
2022-08-14 21:26:55

Description

Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through biotechnology has far-reaching implications for how we think of personhood, agency, and value. Sherryl Vint argues that neoliberalism is reinventing life under biocapital. She offers new biopolitical figurations that can help theoretically grasp and politically respond to a distinctive twenty-first-century biopolitics. This book theorizes how biotechnology intervenes in the very processes of biological function, reshaping life itself to serve economic ends. Linking fictional texts with material examples, Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction shows how these practices are linked to new modes of exploitative economic relations that cannot be redressed by human rights. It concludes with a posthumanist reframing of the value of life that grounds itself elsewhere than in capitalist logics, a vision that, in a Covid age, might become fundamental to a new politics of ecological relations.

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