Speculative Realism and Science Fiction, Paperback / softback Book

Speculative Realism and Science Fiction Paperback / softback

Part of the Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies series

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Brian Willems draws on the science fiction of Cormac McCarthy, Paolo Bacigalupi, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Doris Lessing and Kim Stanley Robinson alongside speculative materialists including Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux and Jane Bennett.

By questioning it, these writers and philosophers both develop and challenge anthropomorphism.

Willems looks at how nonsense and sense exist together in science fiction, the way that language is not a guarantee of personhood, the role of vision in relation to identity formation, the difference between metamorphosis and modulation, representations of non-human deaths and the function of plasticity within the Anthropocene.

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