Aging experiments

futures and fantasies of old age

João Paulo Guimarães (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

190 Seiten

2023 | 1. Auflage
transcript (Verlag)
978-3-8376-6283-2 (ISBN)

Infos

An exploration of how science-fiction, fantasy and the avant-garde have challenged our conceptions of ageing and offer means to tell harmful dreams from welcome epistemic shifts.

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The sustained expansion of the life span and the attendant demographic changes in the West have fuelled the production of cultural texts that explore alternative representations of aging and old age. The contributors to this volume show how artists in science-fiction, fantasy and the avant-garde develop visions of late life transformation, improvisation and adaptation to new circumstances. The studies particularly focus on perspectives on aging that challenge the predominant narratives of decline as well as fantasies of eternal youth, as defined by neoliberal notions of health, able-bodiedness, agency, self-improvement, progress, plasticity and productivity.

Autor

João Paulo Guimarães holds a PhD in English from SUNY Buffalo, was an Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellow at University College Dublin and is currently a junior researcher at the Universidade do Porto. His research concentrates on experimental poetry and science studies.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.08.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 278
• Verlagsort: Bielefeld
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 148 x 225 mm
• Gewicht: 303 g
• Einbandart: kartoniert
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: aging • Aging studies • American Studies • avant-garde • Cultural Studies • Experimental • Fantasy • Film • Literature • Science-fiction
• ISBN-10: 3-8376-6283-7 / 3837662837
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8376-6283-2 / 9783837662832
• Zustand: Neuware