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Bruce Clarke - Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems - 9780823228508 - V9780823228508
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Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems

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Description for Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems Hardback. From Dr Moreau's "Beast People" to David Cronenberg's "Brundle fly", Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the "Cyberiad" to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the "Xenogenesis" trilogy, this work examines stories of corporeal transformation through interlocking frames of posthumanism, narratology, and second-order systems theory. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 22. Weight in Grams: 471.

From Dr. Moreau’s Beast People to David Cronenberg’s Brundlefly, Stanislaw Lem’s robot constructors in the Cyberiad to Octavia Butler’s human/alien constructs in the Xenogenesis trilogy, Posthuman Metamorphosis examines modern and postmodern stories of corporeal transformation through interlocking frames of posthumanism, narratology, and second-order systems theory. New media generate new metamorphs.
New stories have emerged from cybernetic displacements of life, sensation, or intelligence from human beings to machines. But beyond the vogue for the cyborg and the cybernetic mash-up of the organic and the mechanical, Posthuman Metamorphosis develops neocybernetic systems theories illuminating alternative narratives that elicit autopoietic and symbiotic visions ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823228508
SKU
V9780823228508
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Bruce Clarke
Bruce Clarke is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Literature and Science and chair of the Department of English at Texas Tech University. His research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and science, with special interests in systems theory, narrative theory, and ecology. In 2010–11 he was senior fellow at the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy, Bauhaus-University ... Read more

Reviews for Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems
"In Bruce Clarke's remarkable book, narrative theory is transformed by a sustained encounter with neocybernetic systems theory. The result is a symbiogenesis as compelling as the hybrid sci-fi creatures Clarke engages-creatures we come to understand as playing surprisingly vital roles in thinking/linking/synching our complex social world to itself. For all students of narrative, Posthuman Metamorphosis will be indispensible-and inspiring!"
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