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Living in Technical Legality: Science Fiction and Law as Technology (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities) - Softcover

Tranter, Kieran

 
9781474474795: Living in Technical Legality: Science Fiction and Law as Technology (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1474474799 ISBN 13: 9781474474795
Verlag: EDINBURGH UNIV PR, 2020

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Through detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television’s Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this is the first sustained examination of legality in science fiction. Kieran Tranter includes substantive worked examples of the law and legal concepts projected by these science fiction texts, such as Australian car culture, legal responses to cloning and the relationship between legal theory and science fiction. By examining science fiction as the culture of our total technological world, it journeys with the partially-consumed human into the belly of the machine. What it finds is unexpected. Rather than a cold uniformity of exchangeable productive units, there is warmth, diversity and ‘life’ for the nodes in the networks. Through its science fiction focus it argues that this life generates a very different law of responsibility that can guide living well in technical legality.

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Kieran Tranter is Associate Professor at Griffith Law School, Griffith University. He has a background in science, law and the humanities. He is fascinated by the ways that culture imagines, mediates and disrupts legal and technological change. He has written widely on law and technology and law and popular culture.

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‘Tranter leverages his prior work to produce a masterful examination of what it means to be living in an era that seems infused with sci-fi tropes from the past. This is a valuable contribution to law and technology studies.’Arthur Cockfield, Queen's University, OntarioThrough detailed readings of popular science fictions, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television’s Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this book presents the first sustained examination of the legality of science fiction.Successive transformations have resulted in the emergence of a total technological world where old separations about ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ have declined. With this, the tendency towards technicity within modern law has flourished. There has often been identified a mechanistic essence to modern law in its domination of human life. Usually this has been considered an ‘end’ and a loss, the human swallowed by the machine. However, this innovative book sets out to re-address this tendency.By examining science fiction as the culture of our total technological world, Living in Technical Legality journeys with the partially consumed human into the belly of the machine. What it finds is unexpected: rather than a cold uniformity of exchangeable productive units, there is warmth, diversity and ‘life’ for the nodes in the networks. Through its science-fiction focus, it argues that this life generates a very different law of responsibility that can guide living well in technical legality.Kieran Tranter is Associate Professor at Griffith Law School, Griffith University.Cover image: TBCCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-2089-1Barcode

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Tranter leverages his prior work to produce a masterful examination of what it means to be living in an era that seems infused with sci-fi tropes from the past. This is a valuable contribution to law and technology studies. Arthur Cockfield, Queen's University, OntarioThrough detailed readings of popular science fictions, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television s Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this book presents the first sustained examination of the legality of science fiction.Successive transformations have resulted in the emergence of a total technological world where old separations about nature and culture have declined. With this, the tendency towards technicity within modern law has flourished. There has often been identified a mechanistic essence to modern law in its domination of human life. Usually this has been considered an end and a loss, the human swallowed by the machine. However, this innovative book sets out to re-address this tendency.By examining science fiction as the culture of our total technological world, Living in Technical Legality journeys with the partially consumed human into the belly of the machine. What it finds is unexpected: rather than a cold uniformity of exchangeable productive units, there is warmth, diversity and life for the nodes in the networks. Through its science-fiction focus, it argues that this life generates a very different law of responsibility that can guide living well in technical legality.Kieran Tranter is Associate Professor at Griffith Law School, Griffith University.Cover image: TBCCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-2089-1Barcode

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Verlag
EDINBURGH UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1474474799
ISBN 13 
9781474474795
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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