Hunt, Eileen M

Artificial Life After Frankenstein

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ISBN 13:: 9781512826173
author:: Hunt, Eileen M
format:: Paperback
publisher:: UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA PR
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2024
Pages:: 306
Dimensions:: 22.1 x 14.2 x 1.8 centimetres (0
Genre:: Nonfiction
Condition:: New
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Artificial Life After Frankenstein by Eileen M. Hunt explores the ethics and politics of creating artificial life and intelligence in the 21st century. Drawing on Mary Shelley's legacy, Botting examines the obligations of humanity to artificial creatures and their corresponding rights. Shelley's novels Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) and The Last Man (1826) have shaped a modern political strain of science fiction concerned with the ethical dilemmas of making life through science, technology, and cultural change. In this book, Botting puts Shelley in dialogue with contemporary political science and philosophy to challenge apocalyptic fears surrounding AI and genetic engineering. Botting shows how Shelley's work models ways to break down and transform the meanings of apocalypse, nature, and love in response to widespread fear about technology's power to undermine humanity, community, and life.

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