Overview

The 2018 Netflix series Altered Carbon is a vital contribution to the cyberpunk renaissance, among such titles as Snowpiercer or Blade Runner 2049. This collection of new essays answers the question: is this increasing popularity of cyberpunk a sign of recognition of the genre's transgressive aspects, such as a stark critique of capitalism, or is it the opposite-a sign of the genre's failure to successfully criticize modernity? The contributors consider the series as taking on current issues, from a critique of neoliberalism, through the ethical aspects of biotechnology, up to thanatology. They provoke questions about what it means to be human in a world in which death does not exist. Essays evaluate the surging popularity of the series and cyberpunk at large from a variety of critical perspectives, shedding new light on a challenging and inventive series.

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Author:   Aldona Kobus ,  Lukasz Muniowski
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.282kg
ISBN:  

9781476679624

ISBN 10:   1476679622
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   24 March 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Aldona Kobus and Lukasz Muniowski 1 Sex Technology advances, but humans don't : Neo-Noir Women, Psychoanalysis and Transhuman Love (Alexander N. Howe) 15 The Flinching Edge: Sex, Consensual Death(lessness) and the Limit-Experience in Altered Carbon (Kwasu David Tembo) 27 Functions of Sex Scenes in Altered Carbon (Michal Klata) 39 Sleeves The Materiality of Reality: The Floating Consciousness in Altered Carbon (Esra Koeksal and Burcu Baykan) 51 Embodiment in Altered Carbon (Lars Schmeink) 67 Wearing Wellness on Your Sleeve: On Meths, Self-Control and Capitalism (Lukasz Muniowski) 81 New (Cloned) Bodies for the Old: Biopolitics in Altered Carbon (Aline Ferreira) 90 Meths versus Quellists : Altered Carbon as the Battleground of Two Ideologies (Damla Pehlivan) 105 Look Who's Talking: Haunted Bodies and Uncanny Voices in Altered Carbon (Dariusz Brzostek) 118 Cyberpunk Cyberpunk Resleeved: How Netflix's Altered Carbon Reformats Its Cyberpunk Ancestry (Adam Edwards) 129 Another Kind of War: The Manufacturing of History in Altered Carbon (Kenneth Matthews) 144 The Present of the Dead: Spectral Ideology in Altered Carbon (Aldona Kobus) 155 Nevermore! Poesque Thanatophobia as Counter-Narrative (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar) 177 About the Contributors 191 Index 195

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Aldona Kobus is a professor in the department of cultural studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. She specializes in fan studies, popular culture studies and research concerning women's authorship. Lukasz Muniowski (Ph.D., American literature, University of Warsaw) has written numerous academic articles on various topics, including gentrification, geek culture, American literature, video games and television series. He lives in Poland.

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