Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. List of Illustrations viii
5. Part One
6. Introduction 1
7. Part Two: Questions of Ethics and Alterity
8. CHAPTER 1. Our Posthuman Past: Subjectivity, History, and Utopia in Late-Soviet Science Fiction 37
9. CHAPTER 2. Digressions in Progress: Posthuman Loneliness and the Will to Play in the Work of the Strugatsky Brothers 55
10. CHAPTER 3. Humans, Animals, Machines: Scenarios of Raschelovechivanie in Gray Goo and Matisse 69
11. Part Three: Natural, Built, and Imagined Environments
12. CHAPTER 4. Human Adaptation in Late-Soviet Environmental Science Fiction 99
13. CHAPTER 5. “Drilled Humans” or Automated Systems? Reconsidering Human-Machine Integration in Late-Soviet Design 114
14. Part Four: Technologies of the Self
15. CHAPTER 6. Romantic Aesthetics and Cybernetic Fiction 137
16. CHAPTER 7. Writing and Technology: Writing the Self in “Real Time” 158
17. CHAPTER 8. Modes of Perception in Transmodal Fiction: New Russian Subjectivity 180
18. Part Five: Politics and Social Action
19. CHAPTER 9. Nothing but Mammals: Post-Soviet Sexuality after the End of History 197
20. CHAPTER 10. Postsocialist Platonov: The Question of Humanism and the New Russian Left 218
21. Part Six: Artistic Practices
22. CHAPTER 11. An Interview with Keti Chukhrov about Love Machines 245
23. CHAPTER 12. Some Entropy in Your Tea: Notes on the Ontopoetics of Artificial Intelligence 254
24. Index 262