Posthuman body in superhero comics : human, superhuman, transhuman, post/human /: human, superhuman, transhuman, post/human. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• 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""; ""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-­Industrial 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;""
• 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.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.