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“dr jonathan hay”

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  • Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene

    by Dr Jonathan Hay ...
    With science fiction stories imagining futures and worlds vastly different from our own, and posthuman philosophies radically reconceptualising our species' place within our own world, this book is a deep dive into the similarities between science fiction studies and critical posthumanism and how they can be read together. Both fields fantasise about future technologies, envisage alienness through ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • A Theory of Everything

    An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality

    by Ken Wilber ...
    A concise, comprehensive overview of the “M Theory” and its application in today’s world, by a renowned American philosopherKen Wilber has long been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of our time, but his work has seemed inaccessible to readers who lack a background in consciousness studies or evolutionary theory—until now. In A Theory of Everything, Wilber uses clear, non-technical ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Culture Series of Iain M. Banks

    A Critical Introduction

    by Simone Caroti ...
    This critical history of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels covers the series from its inception in the 1970s to the The Hydrogen Sonata (2012), published less than a year before Banks' death. It considers Banks' origins as a writer, the development of his politics and ethics, his struggles to become a published author, his eventual success with The Wasp Factory (1984) and the publication of the first ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Transformers and Philosophy

    More than Meets the Mind

    Edited by John R. Shook, Liz Stillwaggon Swan ...
    Series series Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Transformers began with toys and a cartoon series in 1984 and has since grown to include comic books, movies, and video games - its science fiction story has reached an audience with a wide range second only to that of Star Wars. Here, in Transformers and Philosophy, a dream team of philosophers pursues the fascinating questions posed by humankind’s encounter with an artificially intelligent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Beauty of Games

    by Frank Lantz ...
    Series series Playful Thinking
    How games create beauty and meaning, and how we can use them to explore the aesthetics of thought.Are games art? This question is a dominant mode of thinking about games and play in the twenty-first century, but it is fundamentally the wrong question. Instead, Frank Lantz proposes in his provocative new book, The Beauty of Games, that we think about games and how they create meaning through the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Westworld and Philosophy

    If You Go Looking for the Truth, Get the Whole Thing

    by William Irwin ...
    Series series The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    “We can’t define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there’s something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next.”—Dr. Robert Ford, WestworldHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality? HBO’s Westworld, ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

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  • The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction

    by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay ...
    This major critical work from one of the preeminent voices in science fiction scholarship reframes the genre as a way of understanding today's world.As the application of technoscience increasingly transforms every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. Though the broad scope of science fiction may vary in artistic quality and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Green Planets

    Ecology and Science Fiction

    Edited by Gerry Canavan, Kim Stanley Robinson ...
    Contemporary visions of the future have been shaped by hopes and fears about the effects of human technology and global capitalism on the natural world. In an era of climate change, mass extinction, and oil shortage, such visions have become increasingly catastrophic, even apocalyptic. Exploring the close relationship between science fiction, ecology, and environmentalism, the essays in Green ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science Fiction and Philosophy

    From Time Travel to Superintelligence

    Edited by Susan Schneider ...
    Featuring numerous updates and enhancements, Science Fiction and Philosophy, 2nd Edition, presents a collection of readings that utilize concepts developed from science fiction to explore a variety of classic and contemporary philosophical issues.Uses science fiction to address a series of classic and contemporary philosophical issues, including many raised by recent scientific ... Read more

    $13.00 USD

  • How We Became Posthuman

    Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

    by N. Katherine Hayles ...
    In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fantasy Role-Playing Game

    A New Performing Art

    by Daniel Mackay ...
    Many of today's hottest selling games--both non-electronic and electronic--focus on such elements as shooting up as many bad guys as one can (Duke Nuk'em), beating the toughest level (Mortal Kombat), collecting all the cards (Pokemon), and scoring the most points (Tetris). Fantasy role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons, Rolemaster, GURPS), while they may involve some of those aforementioned ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Starboard Wine

    More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction

    by Samuel R. Delany ...
    A revised and expanded edition of a classic work of criticism exploring how science fiction is not about the future but about the potential of the present.In Starboard Wine, Samuel R. Delany explores the implications of his now-famous assertion that science fiction is not about the future. Rather, it uses the future as a means of talking about the present and its potentiality. By recognizing a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus