Schmeink, Lars <br/><br/>
Biopunk Dystopias  Genetic Engineering, Society and Science Fiction / 
Lars Schmeink. 
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<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781781383322 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literary Criticism / Science Fiction & Fantasy<br/>Literature--History and criticism
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