TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schmeink,Lars
TI  - Biopunk Dystopias: Genetic Engineering, Society and Science Fiction 
SN  - 9781781383322
PB  - Liverpool University Press
KW  - Literary Criticism / Science Fiction & Fantasy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
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://openresearchlibrary.org/content/8c500cb8-d07d-49e3-8ee9-0660f5e682f1
ER  -