Posthuman body in superhero comics : human, superhuman, transhuman, post/human /: human, superhuman, transhuman, post/human. ([2016])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Posthuman body in superhero comics : human, superhuman, transhuman, post/human /: human, superhuman, transhuman, post/human. ([2016])
- Main Title:
- Posthuman body in superhero comics : human, superhuman, transhuman, post/human
- Further Information:
- Note: Scott Jeffery.
- Authors:
- Jeffery, Scott
- Contents:
- ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction: Human, Superhuman, Transhuman, Post/Human""; ""What the Book Does Not Do""; ""What This Book Does Doâ#x80;¦""; ""How the Book Is Structured""; ""Notes""; ""What Is Posthumanism?""; ""Superhuman Bodies""; ""Rhizomes and Discursive Plateaus""; ""Transhuman Bodies""; ""Transhuman Bodies and Their Discontents""; ""Post/Human Bodies""; ""The Cyborg Manifesto""; ""From Cyborg to Post/Human""; ""Posthuman Body as Assemblage""; ""Notes""; ""The Rhizome of Comic Book Culture""; ""What Is a Comic Book Universe?""; ""The Corporate Assemblage"" ""Creator-Assemblages""""Reader-Assemblages""; ""Critical-Assemblages""; ""Critical-Assemblages v Reader-Assemblages""; ""Comics Studies as Rhizome""; ""The Rhizome of the Posthuman Body""; ""Notes""; ""The Perfect Body""; ""The Theory of Evolution, Modernity and Early Posthumanism""; ""From Freak Shows to Pulp Fictions""; ""The Antediluvian Age of Superhumanism""; ""Fascism and the Posthuman Body""; ""Golden Age Superheroes: The Perfect Body""; ""Captain America: Perfect Body as Posthuman Assemblage""; ""Superhuman as Fascist""; ""Notes""; ""The Cosmic Body"" ""Understanding the Silver Age of Comics""""Cosmic Body as Assemblage""; ""Silver Age Creators and Creations""; ""Superhero as Shaman; Creator as Magician""; ""Post/Human Cosmic Bodies""; ""Transhuman Cosmic Bodies""; ""Human Potential Movement of Cosmic Transhumanism""; ""The Cosmic Body and Social Policy"";""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction: Human, Superhuman, Transhuman, Post/Human""; ""What the Book Does Not Do""; ""What This Book Does Doâ#x80;¦""; ""How the Book Is Structured""; ""Notes""; ""What Is Posthumanism?""; ""Superhuman Bodies""; ""Rhizomes and Discursive Plateaus""; ""Transhuman Bodies""; ""Transhuman Bodies and Their Discontents""; ""Post/Human Bodies""; ""The Cyborg Manifesto""; ""From Cyborg to Post/Human""; ""Posthuman Body as Assemblage""; ""Notes""; ""The Rhizome of Comic Book Culture""; ""What Is a Comic Book Universe?""; ""The Corporate Assemblage"" ""Creator-Assemblages""""Reader-Assemblages""; ""Critical-Assemblages""; ""Critical-Assemblages v Reader-Assemblages""; ""Comics Studies as Rhizome""; ""The Rhizome of the Posthuman Body""; ""Notes""; ""The Perfect Body""; ""The Theory of Evolution, Modernity and Early Posthumanism""; ""From Freak Shows to Pulp Fictions""; ""The Antediluvian Age of Superhumanism""; ""Fascism and the Posthuman Body""; ""Golden Age Superheroes: The Perfect Body""; ""Captain America: Perfect Body as Posthuman Assemblage""; ""Superhuman as Fascist""; ""Notes""; ""The Cosmic Body"" ""Understanding the Silver Age of Comics""""Cosmic Body as Assemblage""; ""Silver Age Creators and Creations""; ""Superhero as Shaman; Creator as Magician""; ""Post/Human Cosmic Bodies""; ""Transhuman Cosmic Bodies""; ""Human Potential Movement of Cosmic Transhumanism""; ""The Cosmic Body and Social Policy""; ""Notes""; ""The Military-Industrial Body""; ""Libertarian Transhumanism and Super-Soldiers""; ""Corporatisation and Organisational Constraint in the Comic Book Industry""; ""Regulating the Superhuman body""; ""The Corporate Superhuman"" ""Iron Man and the Problem of the Military-ÂIndustrial Body""""Notes""; ""Animal Bodies and Artificial Bodies""; ""Transhuman Social Movements""; ""Modernity and the Posthuman Body""; ""Artificial Bodies""; ""Becoming-Human""; ""Smooth Spaces and Striated Spaces""; ""The Ethics of the Superhero Assemblage""; ""Notes""; ""Reading the Superhuman""; ""Becoming the Perfect Body""; ""The Superhuman as Fascist: A Brief Return""; ""The British Invasion""; ""Representing the Superhuman Body""; ""Representations of the Transhuman Body""; ""Notes"" ""Readers on Transhumanism and Post/Humanism""""The Humanism in Superhumanism""; ""Boundary Dissolutions: Natural and Artificial""; ""Emerging Technologies, Not Merging Technologies""; ""Who Watches the Watchmen?""; ""The Inevitability of a Posthuman Future""; ""Minds and Bodies""; ""Transhuman Minds and in Human Bodies""; ""Boundary Dissolutions: Reality and Fiction""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Towards a Theory of Reader-Text Assemblages""; ""Reader-Text Assemblages""; ""Reader-Text Assemblages and the Superhero Comic as â#x80;#x9C;Body Genreâ#x80;#x9D;"" … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Copyright Date:
- 2016
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages)
- Subjects:
- 741.59
Superheroes
Human body in literature
ART -- Techniques -- Drawing
Human body in literature
Superheroes
Social Science -- General
Philosophy -- Reference
Cultural studies
Philosophy
Literary studies: from c 1900
Communication
Philosophy
Social Science -- Media Studies
Media studies
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781137549501
1137549505
9781137578228 - Related ISBNs:
- 113757822X
113757822X
9781137578228 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.353345
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