Disability and the Posthuman

Disability and the Posthuman
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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 9781789627473
ISBN-13 : 1789627478
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Book Synopsis Disability and the Posthuman by : Stuart Fletcher Murray

Download or read book Disability and the Posthuman written by Stuart Fletcher Murray and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability and the Posthuman is the first study to analyse cultural representations and deployments of disability as they interact with posthumanist theories of technology and embodiment. Working across a wide range of texts, many new to critical enquiry, in contemporary writing, film and cultural practice from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Japan, it covers a diverse range of topics, including: contemporary cultural theory and aesthetics; design, engineering and gender; the visualisation of prosthetic technologies in the representation of war and conflict; and depictions of work, time and sleep. While noting the potential limitations of posthumanist assessments of the technologized body, the study argues that there are exciting, productive possibilities and subversive potentials in the dialogue between disability and posthumanism as they generate dissident crossings of cultural spaces. Such intersections cover both fictional/imagined and material/grounded examples of disability and look to a future in which the development of technology and complex embodiment of disability presence align to produce sustainable yet radical creative and critical voices.

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