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Literature --- Gedaanteverwisseling in de literatuur --- Metamorphose dans la litterature --- Metamorphosis in literature --- Metamorphosis in literature.

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This volume presents the first collection of essays dedicated to the science fiction of microbiologist Joan Slonczewski. Posthuman Biopolitics consolidates the scholarly literature on Slonczewski’s fiction and demonstrates fruitful lines of engagement for the critical, cultural, and theoretical treatment of her characters, plots, and storyworlds. Her novels treat feminism in relation to scientific practice, resistance to domination, pacifism versus militarism, the extension of human rights to nonhuman and posthuman actors, biopolitics and posthuman ethics, and symbiosis and communication across planetary scales. Posthuman Biopolitics explores the breadth and depth of Joan Slonczewski’s vision, uncovering the reflective ethical practice that informs her science fiction.

Humanism in literature. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- Fiction. --- America—Literatures. --- Technology in literature. --- Bioethics. --- Film genres. --- Contemporary Literature. --- North American Literature. --- Literature and Technology/Media. --- Genre. --- Genre films --- Genres, Film --- Motion picture genres --- Motion pictures --- Biology --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Science --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Plots, themes, etc. --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Philosophy --- Literature, Modern --- America --- Literature and technology. --- Mass media and literature. --- Fiction Literature. --- Literature and Technology. --- Genre Studies. --- Literature and mass media --- Industry and literature --- Technology and literature --- Technology --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Literatures.

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This volume presents the first collection of essays dedicated to the science fiction of microbiologist Joan Slonczewski. Posthuman Biopolitics consolidates the scholarly literature on Slonczewski’s fiction and demonstrates fruitful lines of engagement for the critical, cultural, and theoretical treatment of her characters, plots, and storyworlds. Her novels treat feminism in relation to scientific practice, resistance to domination, pacifism versus militarism, the extension of human rights to nonhuman and posthuman actors, biopolitics and posthuman ethics, and symbiosis and communication across planetary scales. Posthuman Biopolitics explores the breadth and depth of Joan Slonczewski’s vision, uncovering the reflective ethical practice that informs her science fiction.

Professional ethics. Deontology --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- Film --- Fiction --- American literature --- Literature --- film --- literatuur --- bio-ethiek --- medische ethiek --- fantasie (verbeelding) --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- America

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Exploring the broad implications of evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis's work, this collection brings together specialists across a range of disciplines, from paleontology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, and geobiology to developmental systems theory, archaeology, history of science, cultural science studies, and literature and science. Addressing the multiple themes that animated Margulis's science, the essays within take up, variously, astrobiology and the origin of life, ecology and symbiosis from the microbial to the planetary scale, the coupled interactions of earthly environments and evolving life in Gaia theory and earth system science, and the connections of these newer scientific ideas to cultural and creative productions. Dorion Sagan acquaints the reader with salient issues in Lynn Margulis's scientific work, the controversies they raised, and the vocabulary necessary to follow the arguments. Sankar Chatterjee synthesizes several strands of current theory for th e origin of life on earth. James Strick tells the intertwined origin stories of James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis and Margulis's serial endosymbiosis theory. Jan Sapp explores the distinct phylogenetic visions of Margulis and Carl Woese. Susan Squier examines the epigenetics of embryologist and developmental biologist C.H. Waddington. Bruce Clarke studies the convergence of ecosystem ecology, systems theory, and science fiction between the 1960s and the 1980s. James Shapiro discusses the genome evolution that results not from random changes but rather from active cell processes. Susan Oyama shows how the concept of development balances an over-emphasis on genetic coding and other deterministic schemas. Christopher Witmore studies the ways in which a concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO, mixes up natural resources, animal lives, and human appetites. And Peter Westbroek brings the insights of earth system science toward a new worldview essential for a proper response to global c hange.

Convergence (Biology) --- Gaia hypothesis --- Biodiversity --- Evolution (Biology) --- Biological Evolution --- Philosophy --- Philosophy