A Genealogy of Cyborgothic: Aesthetics and Ethics in the Age of Posthumanism

by Dongshin Yi

In his provocative and timely study of posthumanism, Dongshin Yi adopts an imaginary/imaginative approach to exploring the transformative power of the cyborg, a strategy that introduces balance to the current discourses dominated by the practicalities of technoscience and the dictates of anthropocentrism. Proposing the term "cyborgothic" to characterize a new genre that may emerge from gothic literature and science fiction, Yi introduces mothering...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409400395
• ISBN13: 9781409400394
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"