{"product_id":"the-human-reimagined-posthumanism-in-russia-9781618117328","title":"The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Russia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe enmeshment of the human body with various forms of technology is a phenomenon that characterises lived and imagined experiences in Russian arts of the modernist and postmodernist eras. In contrast to the post-revolutionary fixation on mechanical engineering, industrial progress, and the body as a machine, the postmodern, post-industrial period probes the meaning of being human not only from a physical, bodily perspective, but also from the philosophical perspectives of subjectivity and consciousness. \u003cem\u003eThe Human Reimagined\u003c\/em\u003e examines the ways in which literary and artistic representations of the body, selfhood, subjectivity, and consciousness illuminate late- and post-Soviet ideas about the changing relationships among the individual, the environment, technology, and society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eThe Human Reimagined\u003ci\u003e is an unassuming but essential volume. It’s a minor form — the edited collection of academic essays — that undertakes the major work of rearticulating a field of philosophical and political inquiry. The editors and contributors present a vision of a powerful theoretical and philosophical concept of the human based in the material reality of history. It’s that materialist grounding and that range that give posthumanism — and \u003c\/i\u003eThe Human Reimagined \u003ci\u003e— its radical potential.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e — LA Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. Introduction\u003cbr\u003ea. Critical Posthumanism\u003cbr\u003eb. Posthumanism in Russia\u003cbr\u003ec. Overview of the Articles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII. Questions of Ethics and Alterity\u003cbr\u003e1. Our Posthuman Past: Subjectivity, History and Utopia in Late-Soviet Science Fiction Elana Gomel, Tel Aviv University\u003cbr\u003e2. Digressions in Progress: Posthuman Loneliness and the Will to Play in the Work of the Strugatsky Brothers Julia Vaingurt, University of Illinois at Chicago\u003cbr\u003e3. Humans, Animals, Machines: Scenarios of Raschelovechivanie in Gray Goo and Matisse Sofya Khagi, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII. Natural, Built, and Imagined Environments\u003cbr\u003e4. Environmentalism and the Man of the Future: Discursive Practices in the 1970s Colleen McQuillen, University of Illinois at Chicago\u003cbr\u003e5. Daedalus and the Cyborg: Human-Machine Hybridity in Late-Soviet Design Diana Kurkovsky West, European University at St. Petersburg\u003cbr\u003e6. Some Entropy in Your Tea: Notes on the Ontopoetics of Artificial Intelligence Alex Anikina, Goldsmiths, University of London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV. Technologies of the Self\u003cbr\u003e7. Romantic Aesthetics and Cybernetic Fiction Jacob Emery, Indiana University\u003cbr\u003e8. Writing and Technology: Writing the Self in ‘Real Time’ Kristina Toland, Bowdoin College\u003cbr\u003e9. Modes of Perception in Transmodal Fiction: New Russian Subjectivity Katerina Lakhmitko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV. Politics and Social Action\u003cbr\u003e10. Nothing but Mammals: Post-Soviet Sexuality after the End of History Trevor Wilson, University of Pittsburgh\u003cbr\u003e11. Postsocialist Platonov: The Question of Humanism and the New Russian Left Jonathan Brooks Platt, University of Pittsburgh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI. Afterword\u003cbr\u003eKeti Chukhrov, an interview by Alina Kotova about Love Machines","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359754584407,"sku":"9781618117328","price":89.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781618117328.jpg?v=1754125614","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-human-reimagined-posthumanism-in-russia-9781618117328","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}