Living in Technical Legality

Science Fiction and Law as Technology

Kieran Tranter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2018
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-2089-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

List of Figures

Preface

Introduction: Living in Technical Legality

Science Fiction and LawThe Chapters to Come

Part I: Technical Legality

1. From Law and Technology to Law as Technology

Cloning LawFrankenstein MythLaw as Technology

2. Dune, Modern Law and the Alchemy of Death and Time

Sand, Spice and EmpireThe Illusion of ControlSovereignty as the Alchemy of Death and Time

3. Battlestar Galactica, Technology and Lfe

Battlestar Galactica ReduxSovereigns and Subjects in Battlestar GalacticaThe Metaphysics of Technology

Part II: Living in Technical Legality

4. Xenogenesis and the Technical Legal Subject

Biopower and Natureculture on an Alien Rehabilitated EarthThe Technical Legal Subject of XenogenesisLiving Well as a Technical Legal Subject

5. The Doctor and Technical Lawyering

Time and a Blue BoxDeath and the DoctorThe Doctor as the Paradigm Technical Lawyer

6. Mad Max and Mapping the Monsters in the Networks

Identity, Myth and Biopower in Mad Max 2The Australian Human-automobileCartographies of Technical Legality

7. Deserts and Technical Legality

BibliographyNotesIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	22.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
Zusatzinfo	6 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	528 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
	Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	1-4744-2089-3 / 1474420893
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-2089-1 / 9781474420891
Zustand	Neuware