Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction
Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through…
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Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction
Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through biotechnology has far-reaching implications for how we think of personhood, agency, and value. She offers new biopolitical figurations that can help theoretically grasp and politically respond to a distinctive twenty-first-century biopolitics. Sherryl Vint argues that neoliberalism is reinventing life under biocapital.
Linking fictional texts with material examples, Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction shows how these practices are linked to new modes of exploitative economic relations that cannot be redressed by human rights. This book theorizes how biotechnology intervenes in the very processes of biological function, reshaping life itself to serve economic ends. It concludes with a posthumanist reframing of the value of life