Fantasies of self-mourning : modernism, the posthuman and the finite /

In 'Fantasies of Self-Mourning' Ruben Borg describes the formal features of a posthuman, cyborgian imaginary at work in modernism. The book's central claim is that modernism invents the posthuman as a way to think through the contradictions of its historical moment. Borg develops a po...

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Hlavní autor: Borg, Ruben (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Leiden : Brill : Rodopi, [2019]
Edice:Critical posthumanisms (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 2.
On-line přístup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2001157
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