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Editing the Soul
2017,2021
Overview
Personal genome testing, gene editing for life-threatening
diseases, synthetic life: once the stuff of science fiction,
twentieth- and twenty-first-century advancements blur the lines
between scientific narrative and scientific fact. This examination
of bioengineering in popular and literary culture shows that the
influence of science on science fiction is more reciprocal than we
might expect.
Looking closely at the work of Margaret Atwood, Richard Powers,
and other authors, as well as at film, comics, and serial
television such as Orphan Black , Everett Hamner shows how
the genome age is transforming both the most commercial and the
most sophisticated stories we tell about the core of human
personhood. As sublime technologies garner public awareness beyond
the genre fiction shelves, they inspire new literary categories
like \"slipstream\" and shape new definitions of the human, the
animal, the natural, and the artificial. In turn, what we learn of
bioengineering via popular and literary culture prepares the way
for its official adoption or restriction-and for additional
representations. By imagining the connections between emergent gene
testing and editing capacities and long-standing conversations
about freedom and determinism, these stories help build a cultural
zeitgeist with a sharper, more balanced vision of predisposed
agency.
A compelling exploration of the interrelationships among
science, popular culture, and self, Editing the Soul sheds
vital light on what the genome age means to us, and what's to
come.
Publisher
Penn State University Press,Pennsylvania State University Press
Subject
ISBN
0271079339, 9780271079332, 027108054X, 9780271080543
