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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	Oktober 2016
Genre:	Wirtschaft / Recht
	American Culture / B / Communication / Contemporary Literature / Cultural Studies / Literary studies# c 1900 to c 2000 / Literature, Cultural and Media Studies / Literature, Modern—20th century / Literature, Modern—21st century / Media and Communication / Philosophy / Philosophy of Technology / Technology# general issues / United States—Study and teaching
ISBN:	9781137578228
EAN-Code:	9781137578228
Verlag:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Serie:	Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
Dimensionen:	H 216 mm / B 153 mm / D 20 mm
Gewicht:	468 gr
Seiten:	272
Zus. Info:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
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Inhalt:

This book examines the concepts of Post/Humanism and Transhumanism as depicted in superhero comics. Recent decades have seen mainstream audiences embrace the comic book Superhuman. Meanwhile there has been increasing concern surrounding human enhancement technologies, with the techno-scientific movement of Transhumanism arguing that it is time humans took active control of their evolution.  Utilising Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the rhizome as a non-hierarchical system of knowledge to conceptualize the superhero narrative in terms of its political, social and aesthetic relations to the history of human technological enhancement, this book draws upon a diverse range of texts to explore the way in which the posthuman has been represented in superhero comics, while simultaneously highlighting its shared historical development with Post/Humanist critical theory and the material techno-scientific practices of Transhumanism.