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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden :
Brill : Rodopi,
[2019]
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| Series: | Critical posthumanisms (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
v. 2. |
| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2001157 |
Table of Contents:
- A history of nacissistic wounds
- The apocalyptic chronotope
- Thinking historicity with tress
- Funny being dead! Tragic and comic laughter.