001481693 000__ 05002nam\\22005777i\4500 001481693 001__ 1481693 001481693 003__ NhCcYBP 001481693 005__ 20231108003246.0 001481693 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001481693 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 001481693 008__ 230624s2023\\\\gw\\\\\\ob\\\\000\0\eng\d 001481693 020__ $$a9783839468203 001481693 020__ $$a3839468205 001481693 040__ $$aNhCcYBP$$cNhCcYBP 001481693 050_4 $$aPN49$$b.B56 2023 001481693 08204 $$a809/.93384$$223/eng/20230630 001481693 1001_ $$aBender, Stephanie,$$eauthor. 001481693 24510 $$aEthics for the Future :$$bPerspectives from 21st Century Fiction /$$cStephanie Bender. 001481693 264_1 $$aBielefeld :$$bTranscript,$$c[2023] 001481693 300__ $$a1 online resource. 001481693 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001481693 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001481693 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001481693 4901_ $$aCulture & theory ;$$vvolume 288 001481693 500__ $$aThe Political Level: Democratic Transhumanism 001481693 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references. 001481693 5050_ $$aCover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Challenging Times -- Ethics for the Future: From Humanism to Posthumanism -- Ethical Criticism in the 21st Century -- Aesthetics for the Future: Popular Future Fictions -- The Chapters -- 2 Ethics for the Future through Fiction -- A Difficult Heritage: Humanism and Beyond -- New Ethics for a New Age: Hans Jonas -- Deconstruction, Ethics, and the Anthropocene: Joanna Zylinska -- Towards Posthumanist Ethics -- Actual Worlds and Possible Futures in Fiction -- Existing Ethical Approaches to Literature -- Ethical Criticism in Film 001481693 5058_ $$aLimitations of Existing Approaches -- Future Ethical Criticism: Worlds in the Making -- 3 Future World Ecologies: Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 (2017) and James Cameron's Avatar (2009) -- A Political World-Ecology Approach: Kim Stanley Robinson's NewYork 2140 -- New Realist Utopianism -- Ethics through an Aesthetic Unity of Effect -- The Capitalocene: Economy-Ecology -- Political Organisation through Actor Networks -- Back to "Nature" in James Cameron's Avatar -- Effective Affection? Ethical Responses to the Fantastic -- Ecologies without Nature 001481693 5058_ $$aThe Unobtainium of the Industrial-Military Complex -- Are the Scientists also the Good Guys? -- Can You See What Is Real? -- Conclusion -- 4 Transhumanist Futures: Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014) and Wally Pfister's Transcendence (2014) -- Transhumanist Ethics in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar -- Directing Viewers' Emotions -- The End Times of the Earth's World Ecology Managed by Bureaucrats -- Normative Humanity and Border Transgressions -- The Scientific, Science Fiction, and Space -- The Otherworld in Space: A Fusion of Science and Love 001481693 5058_ $$aPhilosophical Essentialism: Futuristic Technologies and The Humanin Wally Pfister's Transcendence -- More than Black and White: Ambiguous Ethics and Aesthetics -- Will as a Prototypical Representative of Transhumanist Thought -- Technology as a New Form of Secular Spirituality -- A Natural Techno-Spirituality -- The Classical Substantivist View: Revolutionary Independence fromTechnology -- The Resolution? Max as Middle Ground, Love as Reconciling Force -- Conclusion -- 5 Futuristic Digital Neoliberalism: Spike Jonze's Her (2013) and Dave Eggers's The Circle (2013) 001481693 5058_ $$aThe Self and the Other in Digital Neoliberalism: Relationshipsand Identities in Spike Jonze's Her -- The Aesthetics of Digital Neoliberalism, the Self and the Other -- A Digital Mimicking of Neoliberal Selfhood -- Failed Romance: Meeting the Self instead of the Other -- Selling Love -- A Posthuman(ist) Possibility of an Other(world) -- The Economy of Attention in Dave Eggers's The Circle -- The Aesthetics of Warning -- The Threat of a Digital Economy of Attention -- Digital Capitalism and Transhumanism -- The Individual Level: Computational Psychologies 001481693 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users 001481693 533__ $$aElectronic reproduction.$$bAnn Arbor, MI$$nAvailable via World Wide Web. 001481693 588__ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 27, 2023). 001481693 650_0 $$aEthics in literature. 001481693 650_0 $$aEthics in motion pictures.$$0(DLC)sh 97008989 001481693 650_0 $$aFuture, The, in literature. 001481693 650_0 $$aFuture, The, in motion pictures. 001481693 650_0 $$aFiction$$y21st century$$xHistory and criticism.$$vFiction$$0(DLC)sh2007100451 001481693 650_0 $$aMotion pictures$$xHistory$$y21st century.$$0(DLC)sh 85088126 001481693 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001481693 7102_ $$aProQuest (Firm) 001481693 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aBender, Stephanie$$tEthics for the Future$$dBielefeld : transcript,c2023$$z9783837668209 001481693 830_0 $$aEdition Kulturwissenschaft. 001481693 852__ $$bebk 001481693 85640 $$3GOBI DDA$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=7260959$$zOnline Access 001481693 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1481693$$pGLOBAL_SET 001481693 980__ $$aBIB 001481693 980__ $$aEBOOK 001481693 982__ $$aEbook 001481693 983__ $$aOnline