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Disability and the Posthuman: Bodies, Technology, and Cultural Futures

Disability and the Posthuman: Bodies, Technology, and Cultural Futures

Fletcher Murray, Stuart

Hardcover

Series: Liverpool Studies in Health, Disability, Culture & Society, Book 10

PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 178962164X
ISBN13: 9781789621648
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: May 8 2020
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.

Disability and the Posthuman is the first study to analyse cultural representations and deployments of disability as they interact with posthumanist theories of technology and embodiment. Working across a wide range of texts, many new to critical enquiry, in contemporary writing, film and cultural practice from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Japan, it covers a diverse range of topics, including: contemporary cultural theory and aesthetics; design, engineering and gender; the visualisation of prosthetic technologies in the representation of war and conflict; and depictions of work, time and sleep. While noting the potential limitations of posthumanist assessments of the technologized body, the study argues that there are exciting, productive possibilities and subversive potentials in the dialogue between disability and posthumanism as they generate dissident crossings of cultural spaces. Such intersections cover both fictional/imagined and material/grounded examples of disability and look to a future in which the development of technology and complex embodiment of disability presence align to produce sustainable yet radical creative and critical voices.

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