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The Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics = Human, Superhuman, Transhuman, Post/Human /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics/ by Scott Jeffery.
Reminder of title:	Human, Superhuman, Transhuman, Post/Human /
Author:	Jeffery, Scott.
Description:	VIII, 264 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Contemporary Literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54950-1
ISBN:	9781137549501

The Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics = Human, Superhuman, Transhuman, Post/Human /
Jeffery, Scott.

The Posthuman Body in Superhero ComicsHuman, Superhuman, Transhuman, Post/Human /[electronic resource] :by Scott Jeffery. - 1st ed. 2016. - VIII, 264 p.online resource. - Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels,2634-6370. - Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels,.

This book examines the concepts of Post/Humanism and Transhumanism as depicted in superhero comics. Recent decades have seen mainstream audiences embrace the comic book Superhuman. Meanwhile there has been increasing concern surrounding human enhancement technologies, with the techno-scientific movement of Transhumanism arguing that it is time humans took active control of their evolution. Utilising Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of the rhizome as a non-hierarchical system of knowledge to conceptualize the superhero narrative in terms of its political, social and aesthetic relations to the history of human technological enhancement, this book draws upon a diverse range of texts to explore the way in which the posthuman has been represented in superhero comics, while simultaneously highlighting its shared historical development with Post/Humanist critical theory and the material techno-scientific practices of Transhumanism.

ISBN: 9781137549501

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-54950-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1108131
Contemporary Literature.

LC Class. No.: P87-96

Dewey Class. No.: 302.23

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