Bodies for Profit and Power Science Fiction and Biopolitics
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Altersempfehlung
ab 18 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
21.09.2023
Verlag
Ingram Publishers ServicesSeitenzahl
270
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/1.6 cm
Gewicht
443 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4766-7936-5
Early dystopian science fiction like George Orwell's 1984 or Thea von Harbou's Metropolis show us bleak worlds where capitalism has no boundaries and has corrupted sovereign powers, exploiting the lower classes and benefiting only a few at the top. Political laws and policies related to human life--or the biopolitical--devalue that life, making humanity little more than expendable "machines" producing for capitalism, and capitalism's focus on progress has made it a central concern in much of science fiction. Covering science fiction from the early 1900s to present, this book examines the portrayal of dystopian capitalism and the biopolitical in works like Brave New World and R.U.R., among many others.
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