Screening Technology, Theorizing Posthumanism: Humanness and Embodiment in Science Fiction Film and Television (Thinking Cinema)

Screening Technology, Theorizing Posthumanism examines how different embodiments of technological life come to be inscribed with qualities of humanness across mainstream film and television, so as to understand the ways in which posthumanism emerges onscreen. Now more than ever, we are being told that technologies capable of performing as though they were human are being developed at an unprecedented rate.In order to make sense of the wide-ranging social, ethical and philosophical ramifications of such technologies, cultural commentators, researchers and philosophers are turning to science fiction for answers.Rather than dismiss those who do so, this book builds upon this critical impulse to consider how film and television respond to the question: what does it mean to be human in an age of technological crisis?Liam Rogers makes the case for a film-and-television-philosophy approach to examine what mainstream science fiction can offer posthumanism in its technoscientific visions of the