Speculative Realism and Science Fiction

Brian Willems draws on the science fiction of Cormac McCarthy, Paolo Bacigalupi, Neil Gaiman, China Mi?ville, Doris Lessing and Kim Stanley Robinson alongside speculative materialists including Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux and Jane Bennett. By questioning it, these writers and philosophers both develop and challenge anthropomorphism. Willems looks at how nonsense and sense exist together in science fiction, the way that language is not a guarantee of personhood, the role of vision in relation to identity formation, the difference between metamorphosis and modulation, representations of non-human deaths and the function of plasticity within the Anthropocene.

Author: Brian Willems
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 08/09/2017
Series: Speculative Realism
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781474422703