The articles featured in The Human Reimagined examine the ways in which literary and artistic representations of the body, selfhood, subjectivity, and consciousness illuminate late- and post-Soviet ideas about the changing relationships among the individual, the environment, technology, and society.
The articles featured in The Human Reimagined examine the ways in which literary and artistic representations of the body, selfhood, subjectivity, and consciousness illuminate late- and post-Soviet ideas about the changing relationships among the individual, the environment, technology, and society.
Colleen McQuillen is associate professor in the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has authored numerous publications on Russian literature and culture, including The Modernist Masquerade: Stylizing Life, Literature and Costumes in Russia (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013). Julia Vaingurt is associate professor in the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has published widely on Russian modernism and avant-garde, including Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde: Technology and Arts in Russia of the 1920s (Northwestern University Press, 2013).
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I. Introduction a. Critical Posthumanism b. Posthumanism in Russia c. Overview of the Articles II. Questions of Ethics and Alterity 1. Our Posthuman Past: Subjectivity, History and Utopia in Late-Soviet Science Fiction Elana Gomel, Tel Aviv University 2. Digressions in Progress: Posthuman Loneliness and the Will to Play in the Work of the Strugatsky Brothers Julia Vaingurt, University of Illinois at Chicago 3. Humans, Animals, Machines: Scenarios of Raschelovechivanie in Gray Goo and Matisse Sofya Khagi, University of Michigan III. Natural, Built, and Imagined Environments 4. Environmentalism and the Man of the Future: Discursive Practices in the 1970s Colleen McQuillen, University of Illinois at Chicago 5. Daedalus and the Cyborg: Human-Machine Hybridity in Late-Soviet Design Diana Kurkovsky West, European University at St. Petersburg 6. Some Entropy in Your Tea: Notes on the Ontopoetics of Artificial Intelligence Alex Anikina, Goldsmiths, University of London IV. Technologies of the Self 7. Romantic Aesthetics and Cybernetic Fiction Jacob Emery, Indiana University 8. Writing and Technology: Writing the Self in `Real Time¿ Kristina Toland, Bowdoin College 9. Modes of Perception in Transmodal Fiction: New Russian Subjectivity Katerina Lakhmitko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign V. Politics and Social Action 10. Nothing but Mammals: Post-Soviet Sexuality after the End of History Trevor Wilson, University of Pittsburgh 11. Postsocialist Platonov: The Question of Humanism and the New Russian Left Jonathan Brooks Platt, University of Pittsburgh VI. Afterword Keti Chukhrov, an interview by Alina Kotova about Love Machines
I. Introduction a. Critical Posthumanism b. Posthumanism in Russia c. Overview of the Articles II. Questions of Ethics and Alterity 1. Our Posthuman Past: Subjectivity, History and Utopia in Late-Soviet Science Fiction Elana Gomel, Tel Aviv University 2. Digressions in Progress: Posthuman Loneliness and the Will to Play in the Work of the Strugatsky Brothers Julia Vaingurt, University of Illinois at Chicago 3. Humans, Animals, Machines: Scenarios of Raschelovechivanie in Gray Goo and Matisse Sofya Khagi, University of Michigan III. Natural, Built, and Imagined Environments 4. Environmentalism and the Man of the Future: Discursive Practices in the 1970s Colleen McQuillen, University of Illinois at Chicago 5. Daedalus and the Cyborg: Human-Machine Hybridity in Late-Soviet Design Diana Kurkovsky West, European University at St. Petersburg 6. Some Entropy in Your Tea: Notes on the Ontopoetics of Artificial Intelligence Alex Anikina, Goldsmiths, University of London IV. Technologies of the Self 7. Romantic Aesthetics and Cybernetic Fiction Jacob Emery, Indiana University 8. Writing and Technology: Writing the Self in `Real Time¿ Kristina Toland, Bowdoin College 9. Modes of Perception in Transmodal Fiction: New Russian Subjectivity Katerina Lakhmitko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign V. Politics and Social Action 10. Nothing but Mammals: Post-Soviet Sexuality after the End of History Trevor Wilson, University of Pittsburgh 11. Postsocialist Platonov: The Question of Humanism and the New Russian Left Jonathan Brooks Platt, University of Pittsburgh VI. Afterword Keti Chukhrov, an interview by Alina Kotova about Love Machines
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