Dr Julia Empey co-edits “Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media: From ‘Annihilation’ to ‘High Life’ and Beyond”, published by Bloomsbury, September 2023

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“Feminist Posthumanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film and Media:
From ‘Annihilation’ to ‘High Life’ and Beyond”,
Julia A. Empey (Anthology Editor), Russell J.A. Kilbourn (Anthology Editor).
Published by Bloomsbury.
Science fiction (SF) as a genre allows for new imaginings of human-technological relations and human exceptionalism. In this way, science fiction affords unique opportunities for the scholarly investigation of the relevance and relative applicability of specific posthumanist and feminist themes and questions in a particularly rich and wide-ranging popular cultural field of production. Where typically the mention of SF in the posthumanist context calls to mind a whole set of (often clichéd) tropes, this volume analyses specific examples that engage with the burgeoning field of critical posthumanism, utilising films and video games to interrogate posthumanist, feminist and humanistic ideas.
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