Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene av Dr Jonathan (Lecturer in English Literature and Data Science University of Chester UK) Hay

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<b>With science fiction stories imagining futures and worlds vastly different from our own, and posthuman philosophies radically reconceptualising our species¿ place within our own world, this book is a deep dive into the similarities between science fiction studies and critical posthumanism and how they can be read together</b>. Both fields fantasise about future technologies, envisage alienness through conversation with everyday life and both anticipate the Anthropocene as a dire source of rupture from the present. Drawing inspiration from these and other consonances, this book establishes a common theoretical ground between the two fields, upon which the two currents of future-oriented thought can meet and begin to share a common language. An investigation that draws critical currency from the everyday condition of our species in relation to technology and our perilous situation in the Anthropocene, the book observes posthumanism not just as a theoretical framework that may be appli