- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 223 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "One of the reasons that speculative materialism challenges anthropomorphism is that a human-centred approach to the environment is leading to ecological collapse. Therefore, when non-human things are taken to be as equally valid objects of investigation as humans, a more responsible and truthful view of the world takes place. 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."--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Speculative realism
- Uniform Title
- Speculative realism and science fiction (Online)
- Speculative realism.
- Alternative Title
- Speculative realism and science fiction (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The Zug effect -- Divine paraphrase : Cormac McCarthy -- Double-vision : Neil Gaiman -- Subtraction and contradiction : China Miéville -- Tension and phase : Doris Lessing -- Animal death : Paolo Bacigalupi -- Transcription : Kim Stanley Robinson -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9781474422697 (hardback)
- 9781474422703 (paperback)
- 9781474422710 (webready PDF) (canceled/invalid)
- 9781474422727 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018285026
- OCLC
- ssj0002114037
- Author
Willems, Brian.
- Title
Speculative realism and science fiction [electronic resource] / Brian Willems.
- Imprint
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]
- Series
Speculative realism
Speculative realism.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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