The human reimagined : posthumanism in Russia / edited and introduced by Colleen McQuillen and Julia Vaingurt.

Other author McQuillen, Colleen, 1972- editor.
Other author Vaingurt, Julia editor.
Format Book
PublicationBrighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2018]
Copyright Date©2018
Descriptionviii, 268 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Humanism in literature.
Human body and technology in literature.
Russian literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Humanism in art.
Human body and technology in art.
Art--Soviet Union.

SeriesCultural revolutions: Russia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
Cultural revolutions. ^A1129239
Contents Introduction / Colleen McQuillen and Julia Vaingurt -- 1. Our posthuman past: subjectivity, history and utopia in late-Soviet science fiction / Elana Gomel, Tel Aviv University -- 2. Digressions in progress: posthuman loneliness and the will to play in the work of the Strugatsky Brothers / Julia Vaingurt, University of Illinois at Chicago -- 3. Humans, animals, machines: scenarios of raschelovechivanie in Gray Goo and Matisse / Sofya Khagi, University of Michigan -- 4. Human adaptation in late-Societ environmental science fiction / Colleen McQuillen, University of Illinois at Chicago -- 5. "Drilled humans" or automated systems? reconsidering human-machine integration in late-Soviet design / Diana Kurkovsky West, Northwestern University -- 6. Romantic aesthetics and cybernetic fiction / Jacob Emery, Indiana University -- 7. Writing and technology: writing the self in "real time" / Kristina Toland, Bowdoin College -- 8. Modes of perception in transmodal fiction: new Russian subjectivity / Katerina Lakhmitko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- 9. Nothing but mammals: post-Soviet sexuality after the end of history / Trevor Wilson, University of Pittsburgh -- 10. Postsocialist Platonov: the question of humanism and the new Russian left / Jonathan Brooks Platt, Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg -- 11. An interview with Keti Chukhrov about Love Machine / Alina Kotova, Cine Fantom -- 12. Some Entropy in your Tea: notes on the ontopoetics of artificial intelligence / Alex Anikina, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Human reimagined. Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2018 9781618117335
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2018018538
ISBN9781618117328 hardcover
ISBN1618117327 hardcover
ISBN9781618117793 paperback
ISBN1618117793 paperback
ISBNelectronic
ISBNelectronic

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