Disability and the Posthuman: Bodies, Technology and Cultural Futures (Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society): 10 (Liverpool Studies in Health, Disability, Culture & Society) - Hardcover

Professor Stuart Fletcher Murray

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178962164X ISBN 13: 9781789621648

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Disability and the Posthuman is the first study to analyse cultural representations and deployments of disability as they interact with posthumanist theories of technology and embodiment. Working across a wide range of texts, many new to critical enquiry, in contemporary writing, film and cultural practice from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Japan, it covers a diverse range of topics, including: contemporary cultural theory and aesthetics; design, engineering and gender; the visualisation of prosthetic technologies in the representation of war and conflict; and depictions of work, time and sleep. While noting the potential limitations of posthumanist assessments of the technologized body, the study argues that there are exciting, productive possibilities and subversive potentials in the dialogue between disability and posthumanism as they generate dissident crossings of cultural spaces. Such intersections cover both fictional/imagined and material/grounded examples of disability and look to a future in which the development of technology and complex embodiment of disability presence align to produce sustainable yet radical creative and critical voices.

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About the Author

Stuart Murray is Professor of Contemporary Literatures and Film in the School of English at the University of Leeds.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178962164X
• ISBN 13: 9781789621648
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272