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The Digital Sublime in 21st-Century Science Fiction

The Digital Sublime in 21st-Century Science Fiction

James Butler, Paul

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

General ReferenceGeneral ComputersHistory & Philosophy of Science

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ISBN10: 3032423368
ISBN13: 9783032423368
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Feb 24 2027
Pages: 189
Language: English
This book explores how the sublime has migrated into the digital architecture of the twenty-first century by drawing on contemporary science fiction literature, film, and critical theory to reveal how speculative narrative acts as a laboratory for lived reality. From cyberspace to artificial companions and digital immortality, this book demonstrates how speculative fiction rehearses the moral uncertainties of a posthuman age. Bypassing simple binaries of utopian promise or apocalyptic dread, Butler offers a rigorous framework for understanding our entanglement with derivative minds and black-box systems.The Digital Sublime in 21st-Century Science Fiction issues an urgent call to cultivate a literacy of the invisible--demanding that even within an automated world, we maintain the capacity to confront dread, experience awe, and remain accountable to the human.

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