Drones, Clones, and Alpha Babes: Retrofitting Star Trek's Humanism, Post-9/11University of Calgary Press, 2006 - 168 strán (strany) The Star Trek franchise represents one of the most successful emanations of popular media in our culture. The number of books, both popular and scholarly, published on the subject of Star Trek is massive, with more and more titles printed every year. Very few, however, have looked at Star Trek in terms of the dialectics of humanism and the posthuman, the pervasiveness of advanced technology, and the complications of gender identity. In Drones, Clones and Alpha Babes, Diana Relke sheds light on how the Star Trek narratives influence and are influenced by shifting cultural values in the United States, using these as portals to the sociopolitical and sociocultural landscapes of the United States, pre- and post-9/11. From her Canadian perspective, Relke focuses on Star Trek's uniquely American version of liberal humanism, extends it into a broader analysis of ideological features, and avoids a completely positive or negative critique, choosing instead to honour the contradictions inherent in the complexity of the subject. |
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... humanism , but must , rather , take the form of a critical practice that occurs inside human- ism , consisting not of the wake but the working - through of humanist discourse . Humanism has happened and continues to happen to “ us ...
... critical posthuman thought , such as that of techno - theorists Donna Haraway and Katherine Hayles , Thacker places special emphasis on where ... humanisms : ... .. like the types of humanisms associated with the Humanism / Transhumanism 81.
... humanist vision of Gene Roddenberry defines it as beneath the contempt of those postmodern- ist literary scholars who regard " serious " science fiction as a species of critical theory which , despite its anti - foundationalism ...
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ModernismPostmodernism | 3 |
Regendering Command | 19 |
Technomaternalism | 47 |
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