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Editing the Soul: Science and Fiction in the Genome Age (AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series) PDF

276 Pages·2017·5.7 MB·English
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by Everett Hamner| 2017| 276 pages| 5.7| English

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Personal genome testing, gene editing for life-threatening diseases, synthetic once the stuff of science fiction, twentieth- and twenty-first-century advancements blur the lines between scientific narrative and scientific fact. This examination of bioengineering in popular and literary culture shows that the influence of science on science fiction is more reciprocal than we might expect. Looking closely at the work of Margaret Atwood, Richard Powers, and other authors, as well as at film, comics, and serial television such as Orphan Black , Everett Hamner shows how the genome age is transforming both the most commercial and the most sophisticated stories we tell about the core of human personhood. As sublime technologies garner public awareness beyond the genre fiction shelves, they inspire new literary categories like “slipstream” and shape new definitions of the human, the animal, the natural, and the artificial. In turn, what we learn of bioengineering via popular and literary culture prepares the way for its official adoption or restriction-and for additional representations. By imagining the connections between emergent gene testing and editing capacities and long-standing conversations about freedom and determinism, these stories help build a cultural zeitgeist with a sharper, more balanced vision of predisposed agency. A compelling exploration of the interrelationships among science, popular culture, and self, Editing the Soul sheds vital light on what the genome age means to us, and what’s to come.

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Author:Everett Hamner
Publication Year:2017
ISBN:9780271079332
Pages:276
Language:English
File Size:5.7
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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