Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction

by Sherryl Vint

Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through biotechnology has far-reaching implications for how we think of personhood, agency, and value. Sherryl Vint argues that neoliberalism is reinventing life under biocapital. She offers new biopolitical figurations that can help theoretically grasp and politically respond to a distinctive twenty-first-century biopolitics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108839002
• ISBN13: 9781108839006
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 9.2"