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This book theorises shifts in and across critical approaches to capitalism, science, technology, psychoanalysis, literature, and cinema and media studies. Analysing a wide range of novels and films, the book brings renewed Marxian readings to cyberpunk texts previously theorised by Gilles Deleuze and Jean Baudrillard, and places them at the heart of the emergence of biopunk and its relation to biocapitalism by mapping their generic, technoscientific, libidinal, and economic exchanges. Biocapitalism is the frontline of capitalism today that promises to enrich and prolong our lives and threatens ... More
Keywords: novels, films, cyberpunk, biopunk, biocapitalism, literature, film studies, psychoanalysis, science, technology
Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9781474414371 |
Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: September 2017 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474414371.001.0001 |
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