The Human Reimagined : Posthumanism in Russia / Colleen McQuillen, Julia Vaingurt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McQuillen, Colleen, Editor.

Vaingurt, Julia, Editor.

Series:

Cultural revolutions.

Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanism in literature.

Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Art--Soviet Union.

Art.

Human body and technology in literature.

Human body and technology in art.

Humanism in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages).

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The enmeshment of the human body with various forms of technology is a phenomenon that characterizes lived and imagined experiences in Russian arts of the modernist and postmodernist eras. In contrast to the post-revolutionary fixation on mechanical engineering, industrial progress, and the body as a machine, the postmodern, postindustrial period probes the meaning of being human not only from a physical, bodily perspective, but also from the philosophical perspectives of subjectivity and consciousness. The Human Reimagined examines the ways in which literary and artistic representations of the body, selfhood, subjectivity, and consciousness illuminate late- and post-Soviet ideas about the changing relationships among the individual, the environment, technology, and society.Contributors include: Alex Anikina, Keti Chukhrov, Jacob Emery, Elana Gomel, Sofya Khagi, Katerina Lakhmitko, Colleen McQuillen, Jonathan Brooks Platt, Kristina Toland, Julia Vaingurt, Diana Kurkovsky West, Trevor Wilson

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Part One

Introduction / McQuillen, Colleen / Vaingurt, Julia

Part Two: Questions of Ethics and Alterity

CHAPTER 1. Our Posthuman Past: Subjectivity, History, and Utopia in Late-Soviet Science Fiction / Gomel, Elana

CHAPTER 2. Digressions in Progress: Posthuman Loneliness and the Will to Play in the Work of the Strugatsky Brothers / Vaingurt, Julia

CHAPTER 3. Humans, Animals, Machines: Scenarios of Raschelovechivanie in Gray Goo and Matisse / Khagi, Sofya

Part Three: Natural, Built, and Imagined Environments

CHAPTER 4. Human Adaptation in Late-Soviet Environmental Science Fiction / McQuillen, Colleen

CHAPTER 5. "Drilled Humans" or Automated Systems? Reconsidering Human-Machine Integration in Late-Soviet Design / West, Diana Kurkovsky

Part Four: Technologies of the Self

CHAPTER 6. Romantic Aesthetics and Cybernetic Fiction / Emery, Jacob

CHAPTER 7. Writing and Technology: Writing the Self in "Real Time" / Toland, Kristina

CHAPTER 8. Modes of Perception in Transmodal Fiction: New Russian Subjectivity / Lakhmitko, Katerina

Part Five: Politics and Social Action

CHAPTER 9. Nothing but Mammals: Post-Soviet Sexuality after the End of History / Wilson, Trevor

CHAPTER 10. Postsocialist Platonov: The Question of Humanism and the New Russian Left / Platt, Jonathan Brooks

Part Six: Artistic Practices

CHAPTER 11. An Interview with Keti Chukhrov about Love Machines / Kotova, Alina

CHAPTER 12. Some Entropy in Your Tea: Notes on the Ontopoetics of Artificial Intelligence / Anikina, Alex

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-61811-733-5

OCLC:

1043148433