Singularities: Technoculture, Transhumanism, and Science Fiction in the Twenty-first Century
- ISBN-10
- 1846319722
- ISBN-13
- 9781846319723
- Series
- Singularities
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 254
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Joshua Raulerson
Description
Amid the seemingly exponential advancement of technology and the increasingly portentous implications of its continued development and proliferation, many futurists speculate about an imminent historical threshold when the nature of human existence will be forever changed—the Singularity. In Singularities, Joshua Raulerson mounts a wide-ranging study of the Singularity as a subject for theory and cultural studies, drawing science fiction texts into a complex dialogue with digital culture, transhumanist movements, political and economic theory, consumer gadgetry, gaming, and related areas of our high-tech postmodernity. By doing so, he shows how the Singularity greatly shapes many of our contemporary anxieties and aspirations.
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