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Speculative Realism and Science Fiction

Speculative Realism and Science Fiction

Hardcover

Series: Speculative Realism

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1474422691
ISBN13: 9781474422697
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Nov 9 2017
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Brian Willems draws on the science fiction of Cormac McCarthy, Paolo Bacigalupi, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville, Doris Lessing and Kim Stanley Robinson alongside speculative materialists including Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux and Jane Bennett. By questioning it, these writers and philosophers both develop and challenge anthropomorphism. Willems looks at how nonsense and sense exist together in science fiction, the way that language is not a guarantee of personhood, the role of vision in relation to identity formation, the difference between metamorphosis and modulation, representations of non-human deaths and the function of plasticity within the Anthropocene.

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