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Book Synopsis Postbiological Science Fiction by : Steen Ledet Christiansen
Download or read book Postbiological Science Fiction written by Steen Ledet Christiansen and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book produces a corporeal, affective mapping of the posthuman trajectories of several recent science fiction narratives suggesting the emergence of a mode of science fiction that investigates the production of what we understand the human being to be.
Book Synopsis The Abolition of Species by : Dietmar Dath
Download or read book The Abolition of Species written by Dietmar Dath and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After mankind's near-extermination, a kingdom of animals harnessing biotechnology wages a multi-planetary war against a new form of artificial intelligence.
Book Synopsis Representations of the Post/human by : Elaine L. Graham
Download or read book Representations of the Post/human written by Elaine L. Graham and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work draws together a wide range of literature on contemporary technologies and their ethical implications. It focuses on advances in medical, reproductive, genetic and information technologies.
Book Synopsis Toward Post Ageing by : Katarina Friberg Felsted
Download or read book Toward Post Ageing written by Katarina Friberg Felsted and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the emergent and expanding role of technologies that hold both promise and possible peril for transforming the ageing process in this century. It discusses the points and counterpoints of technological advances that would influence a reconstruction of what it means to age when embedded in a post-human vision for a post-biological future. The book presents a provocative interdisciplinary meta-analysis that contrasts paradigms with inflection points, making the case that society has entered a new inflection point, provisionally labeled as Post Ageing. It goes on to discuss the moderate and radical versions of this inflection point and the philosophical issues that need to be addressed with the advent of post ageing activities: postponing and possibly ending ageing, primarily through technological advances. This book will be a valuable resource for professionals who wish to review the continuum of varied constructs and intersects of technologies ranging from those purporting to enhance the activities of daily living in older adults, to those that would enable the older worker to stay competitive in the labor market, to those that propose to extend longevity and ultimately, claim to transcend ageing itself—moving toward a transhumanistic domain and more specifically, a post-ageing inflection point.
Download or read book Contagion written by Joseph J. Bailey and published by Joseph Bailey. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He woke to a dying world. AI's failing. Datastreams withering. The Verse crumbling. Populations shattered. Civilizations lost. And his thoughts were on his lost love. He had every right to be selfish. His self was all he had left. The nanoswarms had taken everything else. Tags/Related Terms: science fiction, sf, sci-fi, nanotechnology, nanomachines, sff, biology, hard sf, genetic engineering, genetics, apocalypse, horror, action, speculative fiction, biotechnology, cyberpunk, 20th century, bailey, joseph bailey, joseph j bailey, joseph j. bailey, singularity, american, transhumanism, evolution, apocalyptic, quest, disaster, near future, science, ai, blood, science fiction, disease, end of the world, fantasy, future, hard science, nano, plague, sf/f/h, aliens, american fiction, american literature, anthropology, artificial intelligence, bioengineering, biological, biopunk, catastrophe, constructivism, contemporary science fiction, earth, english, experiments, germs, information architecture, medical, mutations, nanobots, pc, post-apocalyptic, postcyberpunk, post-holocaust, prehistory, pulp, science thriller, short stories, short story, novella, technology, transcendence, high tech, love story, action adventure, adventure, neural network, grey goo, gray goo, cyborg, computers, suspense, technothriller, nano, robots, swarm, nanoswarm, computer science, weapons, techno, scary, terror, 21st century, algorithms, cautionary, cautionary tale, collective intelligence, computer simulation, emergence, engineering, relationships, machine learning, microbiology, mimicry, virus, viral, molecular biology, romance, predators, scientific thriller, armageddon, survival, microbiome, tech, distributed intelligence, terraform, terraforming, coevolution, bots
Book Synopsis The New Cinematic Weird by : Steen Ledet Christiansen
Download or read book The New Cinematic Weird written by Steen Ledet Christiansen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Cinematic Weird argues that weird fiction is rising also in audiovisual culture. Presenting several detailed analyses of weird cinematic works, the book shows how the new cinematic weird is best understood as atmospheric worldings — affective intensities that suffuse the experience of the cinematic weird. The weird exists as an experiential field, an inflation of the world. These worldings disclose a variety of experiences. The book engagingly shows how creepy, unsettling, ominous, uneasy, and eerie atmospheres provide a way into the weird experience. This book is important to anyone interested in the audiovisual weird, cinematic atmospheres, how audiovisual media produce worlds, and how weird fiction challenges our conception of the way the world is.
Book Synopsis Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction by : Alan N. Shapiro
Download or read book Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction written by Alan N. Shapiro and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do digital media technologies affect society and our lives? Through the cultural theory hypotheses of hyper-modernism, hyperreality, and posthumanism, Alan N. Shapiro investigates the social impact of Virtual/Augmented Reality, AI, social media platforms, robots, and the Brain-Computer Interface. His examination of concepts of Jean Baudrillard and Katherine Hayles, as well as films such as Blade Runner 2049, Ghost in the Shell, Ex Machina, and the TV series Black Mirror, suggests that the boundary between science fiction narratives and the »real world« has become indistinct. Science-fictional thinking should be advanced as a principal mode of knowledge for grasping the world and digitalization.
Book Synopsis Chinese Science Fiction by : Mingwei Song
Download or read book Chinese Science Fiction written by Mingwei Song and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction by : Mark Bould
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction written by Mark Bould and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at: history – an integrated chronological narrative of the genre’s development theory – detailed accounts of major theoretical approaches including feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, postcolonialism, posthumanism and utopian studies issues and challenges – anticipates future directions for study in areas as diverse as science studies, music, design, environmentalism, ethics and alterity subgenres – a prismatic view of the genre, tracing themes and developments within specific subgenres. Bringing into dialogue the many perspectives on the genre The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and the future of science fiction and the way it is taught and studied.
Book Synopsis Virtual Immortality - God, Evolution, and the Singularity in Post- and Transhumanism by : Oliver Krüger
Download or read book Virtual Immortality - God, Evolution, and the Singularity in Post- and Transhumanism written by Oliver Krüger and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, ideas of post- and transhumanism have been popularized by novels, TV series, and Hollywood movies. According to this radical perspective, humankind and all biological life have become obsolete. Traditional forms of life are inefficient at processing information and inept at crossing the high frontier: outer space. While humankind can expect to be replaced by their own artificial progeny, posthumanists assume that they will become an immortal part of a transcendent superintelligence. Krüger's award-winning study examines the historical and philosophical context of these futuristic promises by Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, Frank Tipler, and other posthumanist thinkers.
Book Synopsis The Legacy Human (Singularity Series Book 1) by : Susan Kaye Quinn
Download or read book The Legacy Human (Singularity Series Book 1) written by Susan Kaye Quinn and published by Twisted Space LLC. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you give to live forever? Elijah Brighton wants to become an ascender—a post-Singularity human/machine hybrid—after all, they’re smarter, more enlightened, more compassionate, and above all, achingly beautiful. But Eli is a legacy human, preserved and cherished for his unaltered genetic code, just like the rainforest he paints. When a fugue state possesses him and creates great art, Eli miraculously lands a sponsor for the creative Olympics. If he could just master the fugue, he could take the gold and win the right to ascend, bringing everything he’s yearned for within reach… including his beautiful ascender patron. But once Eli arrives at the Games, he finds the ascenders are playing games of their own. Everything he knows about the ascenders and the legacies they keep starts to unravel… until he’s running for his life and wondering who he truly is. The Legacy Human is the first in a philosophical HopePunk sci-fi series that explores the intersection of mind, body, and soul in a post-Singularity world. KEYWORDS: Robots, androids, artificial intelligence, singularity, cyborg, spiritual, religion, AI, cyberpunk, dystopian, free science fiction
Book Synopsis Science Fiction and Philosophy by : Susan Schneider
Download or read book Science Fiction and Philosophy written by Susan Schneider and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring numerous updates and enhancements, Science Fiction and Philosophy, 2nd Edition, presents a collection of readings that utilize concepts developed from science fiction to explore a variety of classic and contemporary philosophical issues. Uses science fiction to address a series of classic and contemporary philosophical issues, including many raised by recent scientific developments Explores questions relating to transhumanism, brain enhancement, time travel, the nature of the self, and the ethics of artificial intelligence Features numerous updates to the popular and highly acclaimed first edition, including new chapters addressing the cutting-edge topic of the technological singularity Draws on a broad range of science fiction’s more familiar novels, films, and TV series, including I, Robot, The Hunger Games, The Matrix, Star Trek, Blade Runner, and Brave New World Provides a gateway into classic philosophical puzzles and topics informed by the latest technology
Book Synopsis Space, Time, and Aliens by : Steven J. Dick
Download or read book Space, Time, and Aliens written by Steven J. Dick and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume, former NASA Chief Historian Steven Dick reflects on the exploration of space, astrobiology and its implications, cosmic evolution, astronomical institutions, discovering and classifying the cosmos, and the philosophy of astronomy. The unifying theme of the book is the connection between cosmos and culture, or what Carl Sagan many years ago called the “cosmic connection.” As both an astronomer and historian of science, Dr. Dick has been both a witness to and a participant in many of the astronomical events of the last half century. This collection of papers presents his reflections over the last forty years in a way accessible to historians, philosophers, and scientists alike. From the search for alien life to ongoing space exploration efforts, readers will find this volume full of engaging topics relevant to science, society, and our collective future on planet Earth and beyond.
Book Synopsis Year 2059 Transmutation by : Naif Makmi
Download or read book Year 2059 Transmutation written by Naif Makmi and published by Naif Makmi. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a curious astrobiologist, Phillipa Maxwell, discovers the alien origin of the virus, she’s stunned A mysterious illness, peaceful aliens, and humanity begins to die; only to rise again as zombies… When a virus strikes humanity, turning them into zombies, peaceful aliens offer aid—but the virus has alien origins… An alien virus turns humans into zombies—a war begins Humans and aliens peacefully coexist… so why is an alien virus turning humans into zombies? Aliens and humans coexist—a pandemic that turns humans into zombies could spark a war… Especially when a curious astrobiologist, Phillipa Maxwell, discovers the alien origin of the virus. Stricken with grief after her brother is patient zero and has become a zombie, she turns her eyes heavenward as a group of aliens makes a sinister entry to planet Earth. Suddenly the zombies are weaponized, becoming soldiers in an ugly war. Humanity must fight. Fight to stay healthy, fight the zombies, fight this new alien threat. Phillipa, caught in the crossfire of battle, watches friends—aliens and human-alien—fall, only to be risen into more zombies. With the tides of war turning, she must do the unthinkable; use the fate treasure of the universe. Will she use it in time to save the day? Or will she be destroyed, doomed to fight for the wrong side in a war against those she once loved as a zombie?
Book Synopsis Robots In Space by : Roger D. Launius
Download or read book Robots In Space written by Roger D. Launius and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look into the history of space exploration and its possible future, and just where exactly robotics fit into it all. Given the near incomprehensible enormity of the universe, it appears almost inevitable that humankind will one day find a planet that appears to be much like the Earth. This discovery will no doubt reignite the lure of interplanetary travel. Will we be up to the task? And, given our limited resources, biological constraints, and the general hostility of space, what shape should we expect such expeditions to take? In Robots in Space, Roger Launius and Howard McCurdy tackle these questions with rigorous scholarship and disciplined imagination, jumping comfortably among the worlds of rocketry, engineering, public policy, and science fantasy to expound upon the possibilities and improbabilities involved in trekking across the Milky Way and beyond. They survey the literature—fictional as well as academic studies—and outline the progress of space programs in the United States and other nations. They also assess the current state of affairs to offer a conclusion startling only to those who haven’t spent time with Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke: to traverse the cosmos, humans must embrace and entwine themselves with advanced robotic technologies . . . 2008 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine Praise for Robots in Space “This short volume manages to capture the history of U.S. space flight, to explain the underpinnings of U.S. space policy and to plot out the possibilities for our future in space in a style that most anyone can enjoy.” —Andrew McMichael, Park City Daily News
Book Synopsis Astrobiology, Discovery, and Societal Impact by : Steven J. Dick
Download or read book Astrobiology, Discovery, and Societal Impact written by Steven J. Dick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines humanistic aspects of astrobiology, exploring approaches, critical issues, and implications of the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
Book Synopsis Biological Themes in Modern Science Fiction by : Helen Nethercutt Parker
Download or read book Biological Themes in Modern Science Fiction written by Helen Nethercutt Parker and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
