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Posthumans and Prejudice

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3000666
AutoresDamian Cox (0000-0002-9553-4501, Bond University, autor de correspondencia), Martin P Levine (0000-0003-0927-1264, The University of Western Australia), Michael Levine (0000-0001-6297-4650)
Año2016
Volumen4
Número1
Páginas74-94
Fecha de publicación2016-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Philosophy of Race (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2165-8684 • E-ISSN: 2165-8692
EditorialThe Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5325/critphilrace.4.1.0074
OpenAlexW3146440280
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas10

Posthumanist film and television is both a vehicle for reflection on discrimination and prejudice and a means of gratifying in fantasy deeply imbedded human impulses towards prejudice. Discrimination lies at the heart of posthuman narratives whenever the posthuman coalesces around an identifiable group in conflict with humans. We first introduce the idea of prejudice as a form of psychological defense, contrasting it with other accounts of prejudice in the philosophical literature. We then apply this notion to number of posthumanist film and television narratives. An adequate account of prejudice tells us about posthumanism in film-the significance of posthumanist thinking, speculation and fantasy. It helps account for the proliferation of television series and films about people who-being at one time dead, still dead or partially dead, or only sometimes dead, or have powers and appetites we do not have-are borderline creatures: not fully us, but still near to us

Aesthetics · Art · Creatures · Fantasy · Literature · Narrative · Posthuman · Posthumanism · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · History · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology