001477861 000__ 04896nam\a22007815i\4500 001477861 001__ 1477861 001477861 003__ DE-B1597 001477861 005__ 20231026034833.0 001477861 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477861 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477861 008__ 230103t20222008nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477861 020__ $$a9780823292394 001477861 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823292394$$2doi 001477861 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)565937 001477861 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1306537971 001477861 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477861 0410_ $$aeng 001477861 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477861 072_7 $$aLIT004260$$2bisacsh 001477861 1001_ $$aClarke, Bruce, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477861 24510 $$aPosthuman Metamorphosis :$$bNarrative and Systems /$$cBruce Clarke. 001477861 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2022] 001477861 264_4 $$c©2008 001477861 300__ $$a1 online resource (192 p.) 001477861 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477861 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477861 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477861 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477861 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tFigures and Tables -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction: Posthuman Metamorphosis -- $$t1. Narrative and Systems -- $$t2. Nonmodern Metamorphosis -- $$t3. System and Form -- $$t4. Metamorphosis and Embedding -- $$t5. Communicating The Fly -- $$t6. Posthuman Viability -- $$tConclusion: The Neocybernetic Posthuman -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex 001477861 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477861 520__ $$aFrom Dr. Moreau's Beast People to David Cronenberg's Brundlefly, Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the Cyberiad to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the Xenogenesis trilogy, Posthuman Metamorphosis examines modern and postmodern stories of corporeal transformation through interlocking frames of posthumanism, narratology, and second-order systems theory. New media generate new metamorphs. New stories have emerged from cybernetic displacements of life, sensation, or intelligence from human beings to machines. But beyond the vogue for the cyborg and the cybernetic mash-up of the organic and the mechanical, Posthuman Metamorphosis develops neocybernetic systems theories illuminating alternative narratives that elicit autopoietic and symbiotic visions of the posthuman. Systems theory also transforms our modes of narrative cognition. Regarding narrative in the light of the autopoietic systems it brings into play, neocybernetics brings narrative theory into constructive relation with the systemic operations of observation, communication, and paradox. Posthuman Metamorphosis draws on Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Niklas Luhmann, Cary Wolfe, Mieke Bal, Katherine Hayles, Friedrich Kittler, and Lynn Margulis to read narratives of bodily metamorphosis as allegories of the contingencies of systems. Tracing the posthuman intuitions of both pre- and post-cybernetic metamorphs, it demonstrates the viability of second-order systems theories for narrative theory, media theory, cultural science studies, and literary criticism. 001477861 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477861 546__ $$aIn English. 001477861 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) 001477861 650_7 $$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy.$$2bisacsh 001477861 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001477861 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tFordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014$$z9783111189604 001477861 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tFordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110707298 001477861 7760_ $$cprint$$z9780823228515 001477861 852__ $$bebk 001477861 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823292394$$zOnline Access 001477861 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1477861$$pGLOBAL_SET 001477861 912__ $$a978-3-11-070729-8 Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001477861 912__ $$a978-3-11-118960-4 Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014$$b2014 001477861 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001477861 912__ $$aEBA_CL_LT 001477861 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001477861 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001477861 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_LT 001477861 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001477861 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001477861 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001477861 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001477861 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001477861 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001477861 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001477861 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001477861 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001477861 980__ $$aBIB 001477861 980__ $$aEBOOK 001477861 982__ $$aEbook 001477861 983__ $$aOnline