TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schmeink,Lars
TI  - Biopunk dystopias: genetic engineering, society, and science fiction 
T2  - Liverpool science fiction texts and studies
AV  - PN3433.6 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Liverpool
PB  - Liverpool University Press
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - 21st century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Biotechnology in literature
KW  - Biotechnologie dans la littérature
KW  - Fiction and related items
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Science Fiction & Fantasy
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages247-265) and index; Dystopia, science fiction, posthumanism, and liquid modernity -- The anthropocene, the posthuman, and the animal -- Science, family and the monstrous progeny -- Individuality, choice, and genetic manipulation -- The utopian, the dystopian, and the heroic deeds of one -- 9/11 and the wasted lives of posthuman zombies
N2  - 'Biopunk Dystopias' contends that we find ourselves at a historical nexus, defined by the rise of biology as the driving force of scientific progress, a strongly grown mainstream attention given to genetic engineering in the wake of the Human Genome Project (1990-2003), the changing sociological view of a liquid modern society, and shifting discourses on the posthuman, including a critical posthumanism that decenters the privileged subject of humanism. The book argues that this historical nexus produces a specific cultural formation in the form of "biopunk", a subgenre evolved from the cyberpunk of the 1980s. Biopunk makes use of current posthumanist conceptions in order to criticize contemporary reality as already dystopian, warning that a future will only get worse, and that society needs to reverse its path, or else destroy all life on this planet
UR  - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1ps33cv
ER  -