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Dystopian Cityscapes in (Post)Apocalyptic Science Fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12948196 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hatice Ovgu Tuzun (0000-0001-9911-7775, Bahçeşehir University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 171-193 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American, British and Canadian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1841-1487 • E-ISSN: 1841-964X |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Open (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.2478/abcsj-2018-0010 |
| OpenAlex | W2888659342 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) and Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods (2007) manifest an environmentalist awareness of the increasingly destructive power of human technologies while challenging the prevalent models we employ to think about the planet as well as its human and non-human inhabitants. Both novels probe what it means to be human in a universe plagued by entropy in the era of the Anthropocene. For the purposes of this essay, I will concentrate particularly on Dick’s and Winterson’s portrayals of the dystopian city as a site of interconnections and transformations against a backdrop of encroaching entropy and impending doom. Drawing on the work of several (critical) posthumanists who are primarily interested in dissolving oppositions such as between nature/culture, biology/technology, I show how the displacement of the centrality of human agency due to the intrusive nature of advanced technology is happening in the broader context of the Anthropocene. I also argue that the dystopian cityscapes envisioned in both novels become places that allow for the possibility of new forms of subjectivity to emerge
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Anthropocene · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Dystopia · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Literature · Sociology · Subjectivity · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Philosophy · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
Bodily Natures
My Mother Was a Computer
Geology of mankind
« The Creative CityA Toolkit for Urban Innovators », Charles Landry, Second Edition, Comedia, Earthscan Publications Ltd, London, 2008
Posthuman Critical Theory
Philip K. Dick
Metamorphoses of Science Fiction
Entering the Posthuman Collective in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Faith and Bad Faith in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Materializing a Geotraumatic and Melancholy Anthropocene
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet
Cyberpunk Cities
Death of the PostHuman
Understanding humans in the Anthropocene
Beyond the Uncanny Valley
Vibrant Matter
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene
The Apocalyptic Vision of Philip K. Dick
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |