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Living in Technical Legality: Science Fiction and Law as Technology

Living in Technical Legality: Science Fiction and Law as Technology

Tranter, Kieran

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities

Literary CriticismGeneral Law

ISBN10: 1474420893
ISBN13: 9781474420891
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Jul 25 2018
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Through detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television's Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this is the first sustained examination of legality in science fiction. Kieran Tranter includes substantive worked examples of the law and legal concepts projected by these science fiction texts, such as Australian car culture, legal responses to cloning and the relationship between legal theory and science fiction. By examining science fiction as the culture of our total technological world, it journeys with the partially-consumed human into the belly of the machine. What it finds is unexpected. Rather than a cold uniformity of exchangeable productive units, there is warmth, diversity and 'life' for the nodes in the networks. Through its science fiction focus it argues that this life generates a very different law of responsibility that can guide living well in technical legality.

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