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Fantasies of self-mourning : modernism, the posthuman and the finite
- Title
- Fantasies of self-mourning : modernism, the posthuman and the finite / by Ruben Borg.
- Author
- Borg, Ruben
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2019]
- ©2019
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- Description
- viii, 220 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- In 'Fantasies of Self-Mourning' Ruben Borg describes the formal features of a posthuman, cyborgian imaginary at work in modernism. The book's central claim is that modernism invents the posthuman as a way to think through the contradictions of its historical moment. Borg develops a posthumanist critique of the concept of organic life based on comparative readings of Pirandello, Woolf, Beckett, and Flann O'Brien, alongside discussions of Alfred Hitchcock, Chris Marker, Bela Tarr, Ridley Scott and Mamoru Oshii. The argument draws together a cluster of modernist narratives that contemplate the separation of a cybernetic eye from a human body-or call for a tearing up of the body understood as a discrete organic unit capable of synthesizing desire and sense perception.
- Series Statement
- Critical posthumanisms, 1872-0943 ; volume 2
- Uniform Title
- Critical posthumanisms (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 2.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : posthuman modernism -- A history of nacissistic wounds -- The apocalyptic chronotope -- Thinking historicity with tress -- Funny being dead! Tragic and comic laughter -- Conclusion : passivity of the eye.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-5842
- ISBN
- 9789004390348
- 9004390340
- OCLC
- 1066198513
- Author
- Borg, Ruben, author.
- Title
- Fantasies of self-mourning : modernism, the posthuman and the finite / by Ruben Borg.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Critical posthumanisms, 1872-0943 ; volume 2Critical posthumanisms (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 2.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-5842