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Sex and the posthuman condition

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Sex and the posthuman condition/ Michael Hauskeller.
作者:	Hauskeller, Michael.
出版者:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Pivot : : 2014.,
面頁冊數:	108 p.
附註:	Electronic book text.
標題:	Sex (Psychology) in literature. -
電子資源:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137393505 (electronic bk.) :

Sex and the posthuman condition
Hauskeller, Michael.

Sex and the posthuman condition[electronic resource] /Michael Hauskeller. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Pivot :2014. - 108 p.

Electronic book text.

Contents 1. After the Singularity: the Glorious Sex Life of the Posthuman 2. Sexbots on the Rise 3. Three Literary Paradigms: Pygmalion, The Sandman, and The Future Eve 4. Promethean Shame and the Engineering of Love 5. The Rehabilitation of the Human Body: Lawrence and Houellebecq 6. The Marquis de Sade on Happiness, Nature and Liberty 7. Synthetik Love Lasts Forever 8. Kissengers and Surrogates Bibliography.

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This book looks at how sexuality is framed in enhancement scenarios and how descriptions of the resulting posthuman future are informed by mythological, historical and literary paradigms. It examines the glorious sex life we will allegedly enjoy due to greater control of our emotions, improved capacity for pleasure, and availability of sex robots.Sex and the Posthuman Condition looks at the way sexuality is framed in enhancement scenarios and descriptions of the resulting posthuman future and how those representations are informed by mythological and other historical and literary paradigms. It examines the glorious sex life that we are allegedly going to enjoy, due to greater control of our emotions, a vastly improved capacity for experiencing pleasure, and, most importantly, the ready availability of sex robots that are willing and able to fulfill all our dreams and desires. Through a series of philosophical and literary explorations, Michael Hauskeller raises questions about both the replacement of the real flesh-and-blood human lover with a machine or other kind of artefact (from Ovid's Pygmalion to the soon-to-be-perfected sexbots) and the mechanization of the process of love (from De Sade to neurotechnological manipulations of our love-related emotions and attitudes), as well as the values that underlie such ideas and developments.

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Michael Hauskeller is an Associate Professor at, and Head of, the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published more than a dozen philosophical books including Biotechnology and the Integrity of Life (2007) and Better Humans? Understanding the Enhancement Project (2013), and more than 80 research papers.

ISBN: 1137393505 (electronic bk.) :£30.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

865515
Sex (Psychology) in literature.

LC Class. No.: PS374.S35

Dewey Class. No.: 155.3

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