Primo Levi's narratives of embodiment : containing the human / Charlotte Ross.
For many people, Levi is known as a survivor of the Holocaust and testimonial writer. Fewer people think of him as a science fiction writer who engages with issues such as virtual reality devices, the cloning of human beings, posthuman subjectivity and cyborg bodies. This book explores these issues.
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2011.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;
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Table of Contents:
- Ontologies and epistemologies. Containers and their contents
- Embodying (in/non- )humanity
- Embodied knowledges and epistemological dualism
- Bodily modifications and mutations. Foreword: thinking of the future: science fiction
- Bodies, prostheses, and sentient technologies
- Bureaucratized and technologized bodies
- Close couplings and docile bodies
- Recombining the organic human body
- Conclusions.