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