Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction

Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction

Vint, Sherryl

Cambridge University Press

10/2021

280

Dura

Inglês

9781108839006

15 a 20 dias

520

- Introduction: neoliberalism and the reinvention of life
- 1. Suspending death, reinventing life: the immortal vessel
- 2. The new flesh: vital machines and reimagining the human
- 3. Capital reproduction: maternity and productivity
- 4. Surplus value: transplantation and fungible life
- 5. Life industries: vitality as commodity
- 6. Living to work: biocapital, synthetic biology, and the precaritization of labor
- 7. Life optimized: pharmaceutical health and disposable bodies
- 8. Surplus vitality and posthuman possibilities
- Conclusion: capitalism, biopolitics, and a new body politic.