Which of the possible futures might be a good future, and how do we know? Stephanie Bender looks at contemporary films and novels to address major ethical challenges of the future: the ecological catastrophe, digitalisation and biotechnology. She proposes that fiction and its modes of aesthetic simulation and emotional engagement offer a different way of knowing and judging possible futures. From a critical posthumanist angle, she discusses works ranging from Don DeLillo's Zero K (2017) and Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy (2003-2013) to Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 as well as Avatar (2009), and Blade Runner 2049 (2017) among many others.
2 Ethics for the Future through Fiction Kein Zugriff Seiten 35 - 64
3 Future World Ecologies: Kim Stanley Robinson''s New York 2140 (2017) and James Cameron''s Avatar (2009) Kein Zugriff Seiten 65 - 100
4 Transhumanist Futures: Christopher Nolan''s Interstellar (2014) and Wally Pfister''s Transcendence (2014) Kein Zugriff Seiten 101 - 132
5 Futuristic Digital Neoliberalism: Spike Jonze''s Her (2013) and Dave Eggers''s The Circle (2013) Kein Zugriff Seiten 133 - 168
6 Biopolitics of the Future: Kazuo Ishiguro''s Never Let Me Go (2006) and Don DeLillo''s Zero K (2016) Kein Zugriff Seiten 169 - 208
7 More than Human?: Threats of AI in Dennis Villeneuve''s Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Alex Garland''s Ex_Machina (2014) Kein Zugriff Seiten 209 - 240
8 Posthumanist Futures: Margaret Atwood''s MaddAddam Trilogy (2003, 2006, 2013) and Paolo Bacigalupi''s The Windup Girl (2009) Kein Zugriff Seiten 241 - 280
9 Contemporary Imaginaries of the Future Kein Zugriff Seiten 281 - 294
