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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: From Human to Posthuman Care -- Artificial Friends -- Terminology -- Imagining Posthuman Care -- 1. Care Robots and Affective Legitimacy -- Robot Encounters -- Care Robots and Their Discontents -- Humane Machines, Mechanical Humans -- Embodied and Embedded Robots -- Real Humans, Real Care? -- Robot Form -- 2. Feral Touch: Care and Contact in Posthuman Worlds -- What Touch? Whose Touch? -- Feral Families: Dog Boy and Humanimal -- Alien Touch -- Posthuman Touch |
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3. Care and Disposable Bodies -- What (and Who) Is Waste? -- Extractivism and Colonial Humanism -- The MaddAddam Trilogy -- Posthuman Care beyond Recognition -- 4. Decolonizing Posthuman Care -- Decolonizing Posthumanism -- Pit Love -- Aftermaths, Afterlives -- Care beyond the Human -- Conclusion: Care beyond Life-Imagining Posthumous Relations -- Mineral Love -- (Open) Endings -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
"In March 2021, as I was completing the manuscript for Curious Kin, Kazuo Ishiguro published his eighth novel, Klara and the Sun, which encapsulates many of the questions and concerns central to my inquiry. Klara and the Sun tells the story of a solar-powered AF, or artificial friend named Klara and the family who purchases her. The novel traces Klara's early days as a piece of merchandise on display in a shop window, watching and waiting for potential buyers. She is eventually purchased for a teenager, Josie, who suffers from an unnamed chronic illness that we later learn is likely the result of genetic editing, termed "lifting" in the novel, which privileged children undergo to ensure university education and professional success in adulthood. In accordance with her design, Klara becomes Josie's companion and caregiver, keeping her company in between online lessons and tending to her health needs while Josie's mother works long hours in an unspecified, taxing job outside the home"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 18, 2023) |
| Subject |
Posthumanism in literature.
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Human-computer interaction -- Social aspects
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Social service -- Philosophy
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Social service -- Technological innovations
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
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Human-computer interaction -- Social aspects
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Literature, Modern
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Posthumanism in literature
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Social service -- Philosophy
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Social service -- Technological innovations
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191981265 |
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0191981265 |
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0192886134 |
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9780192886132 |
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