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Curious kin in fictions of posthuman care / Amelia DeFalco.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeFalco, Amelia, 1978- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Posthumanism in literature.
- Science fiction--Themes, motives.
- Science fiction.
- Science fiction films--History and criticism.
- Science fiction films.
- Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Interweaving posthuman theory, care philosophy and contemporary fiction, 'Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care' offers generative visions of care that make room for the incredible range of affects, energies, behaviours, attachments and dependencies that produce and sustain life in more-than-human worlds.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: From Human to Posthuman Care
- Artificial Friends
- Terminology
- Imagining Posthuman Care
- 1. Care Robots and Affective Legitimacy
- Robot Encounters
- Care Robots and Their Discontents
- Humane Machines, Mechanical Humans
- Embodied and Embedded Robots
- Real Humans, Real Care?
- Robot Form
- 2. Feral Touch: Care and Contact in Posthuman Worlds
- What Touch? Whose Touch?
- Feral Families: Dog Boy and Humanimal
- Alien Touch
- Posthuman Touch
- 3. Care and Disposable Bodies
- What (and Who) Is Waste?
- Extractivism and Colonial Humanism
- The MaddAddam Trilogy
- Posthuman Care beyond Recognition
- 4. Decolonizing Posthuman Care
- Decolonizing Posthumanism
- Pit Love
- Aftermaths, Afterlives
- Care beyond the Human
- Conclusion: Care beyond Life-Imagining Posthumous Relations
- Mineral Love
- (Open) Endings
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 31, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: DeFalco, Amelia Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care
- ISBN:
- 0-19-198126-5
- 0-19-288613-4
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