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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Borg, Ruben (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Brill : Rodopi, [2019]
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.