TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schmeink, Lars
AB  - 'Biopunk Dystopias' contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined by the rise of biology as the driving force of scientific progress, a strongly grown mainstream attention given to genetic engineering in the wake of the Human Genome Project (1990-2003), the changing sociological view of a liquid modern society, and shifting discourses on the posthuman, including a critical posthumanism that decenters the privileged subject of humanism. The book argues that this historical nexus produces a specific cultural formation in the form of "biopunk", a subgenre evolved from the cyberpunk of the 1980s. Biopunk makes use of current posthumanist conceptions in order to criticize contemporary reality as already dystopian, warning that a future will only get worse, and that society needs to reverse its path, or else destroy all life on this planet.
DO  - 10.26530/oapen_626391
ID  - OAPEN ID: 626391
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 968721479
KW  - Literature
KW  - Science Fiction
KW  - Dystopia
KW  - Genetic engineering
KW  - Humanism
KW  - Late modernity
KW  - Posthuman
KW  - Posthumanism
KW  - Utopia
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/4f142304-ac0f-40be-82dd-371e6e1743f2/626391.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31629
PB  - Liverpool University Press
PP  - Liverpool
PY  - 2017-01-27
SN  - 9781781383322
TI  - Biopunk Dystopias : Genetic Engineering, Society and Science Fiction
ER  - 
