Kieran Tranter

Living in Technical Legality (eBook, ePUB)

Science Fiction and Law as Technology

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television's Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this is the first sustained examination of legality in science fiction. Kieran Tranter includes substantive worked examples of the law and legal concepts projected by these science fiction texts, such as Australian car culture, legal responses to cloning and the relationship between legal theory and science fiction. By examining science fiction as the culture of our total technological world, it journeys with the partially-consumed human into the belly of the machine. What it finds is unexpected. Rather than a cold uniformity of exchangeable productive units, there is warmth, diversity and 'life' for the nodes in the networks. Through its science fiction focus it argues that this life generates a very different law of responsibility that can guide living well in technical legality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474420914
• Artikelnr.: 72429215

Autorenporträt

Kieran Tranter is Associate Professor at Griffith Law School, Griffith University. He has a background in science, law and the humanities. He is fascinated by the ways that culture imagines, mediates and disrupts legal and technological change. He has written widely on law and technology and law and popular culture.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Preface
Introduction: Living in Technical Legality
Science Fiction and Law
The Chapters to Come
Part I: Technical Legality
1. From Law and Technology to Law as Technology
Cloning Law
Frankenstein Myth
Law as Technology
2. Dune, Modern Law and the Alchemy of Death and Time
Sand, Spice and Empire
The Illusion of Control
Sovereignty as the Alchemy of Death and Time
3. Battlestar Galactica, Technology and Lfe
Battlestar Galactica Redux
Sovereigns and Subjects in Battlestar Galactica
The Metaphysics of Technology
Part II: Living in Technical Legality
4. Xenogenesis and the Technical Legal Subject
Biopower and Natureculture on an Alien Rehabilitated Earth
The Technical Legal Subject of Xenogenesis
Living Well as a Technical Legal Subject
5. The Doctor and Technical Lawyering
Time and a Blue Box
Death and the Doctor
The Doctor as the Paradigm Technical Lawyer
6. Mad Max and Mapping the Monsters in the Networks
Identity, Myth and Biopower in Mad Max 2
The Australian Human-automobile
Cartographies of Technical Legality
7. Deserts and Technical Legality
Bibliography
Notes
Index