Representations of the Post/Human: Monsters, Aliens and Others in Popular Culture Graham Elaine L.
Representations of the Post/Human: Monsters, Aliens and Others in Popular Culture Graham Elaine L. Microchips. Advances in technology promise to shape our lives more profoundly than ever before.…
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Representations of the Post/Human: Monsters, Aliens and Others in Popular Culture Graham Elaine L.
Microchips. Advances in technology promise to shape our lives more profoundly than ever before. Genetic modification of plants. Cloning.
The category of the "posthuman" reflects the implications of such new technologies on contemporary culture, especially in their capacity to reconfigure the human body and to challenge our most fundamental understandings of human nature.Elaine L. Exciting new discoveries in reproductive, genetic, and information technologies all serve to call into question the immutability of the boundaries between humans, animals, and machines. Graham explores these issues as they are expressed within popular culture and the creative arts.
From the myth of Prometheus and the Gothic horror of Frankenstein's monster to contemporary postmodern science fiction, a gallery of fantastic creatures haunts Western myth, religion, and literature. They serve to connect