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  • The Wire

    by Sherryl Vint ...
    Series series TV Milestones
    Analyzes how The Wire repurposed television drama for political critique.Frequently described by creator David Simon as a novel for television, The Wire redefined the police serial format by unfolding its narrative across many episodes, constructing themes for each of its seasons, and refusing to portray individual crimes outside of their social context. While it never achieved spectacular ratings ... Read more

    $34.92 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science Fiction

    by Sherryl Vint ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    How science fiction has been a tool for understanding and living through rapid technological change.The world today seems to be slipping into a science fiction future. We have phones that speak to us, cars that drive themselves, and connected devices that communicate with each other in languages we don't understand. Depending the news of the day, we inhabit either a technological utopia or Brave ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed

    by Dr Sherryl Vint ...
    Series series Guides for the Perplexed
    From its beginnings in the works of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne to the virtual worlds of William Gibson's Neuromancer and The Matrix, Science Fiction: A Guide to the Perplexed helps students navigate the often perplexing worlds of a perennially popular genre. Drawing on literature as well as example from film and television, the book explores the different answers that criticism has offered to the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction

    by Sherryl Vint ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
    Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through biotechnology has far-reaching implications for how we think of personhood, agency, and value. Sherryl Vint argues that neoliberalism is reinventing life under biocapital. She offers new biopolitical figurations that can help theoretically grasp and politically ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Reactionary Worldbuilding

    From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice

    Edited by Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, David M. Higgins, Jordan S. Carroll ...
    The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination and political practice.Speculative imagination brings to life an array of possible worlds that differ in crucial ways from the one governed by shared assumptions of the “normal,” “real,” or “inevitable.” This act of speculation—known as worldbuilding—has become undeniably resurgent ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Programming the Future

    Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV

    by Professor Sherryl Vint, Professor Jonathan Alexander ...
    From 9/11 to COVID-19, the twenty-first century looks increasingly dystopian—and so do its television shows. Long-form science fiction narratives take one step further the fears of today: liberal democracy in crisis, growing economic precarity, the threat of terrorism, and omnipresent corporate control. At the same time, many of these shows attempt to visualize alternatives, using dystopian ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Programming the Future

    Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV

    by Professor Sherryl Vint, Professor Jonathan Alexander ...
    From 9/11 to COVID-19, the twenty-first century looks increasingly dystopian—and so do its television shows. Long-form science fiction narratives take one step further the fears of today: liberal democracy in crisis, growing economic precarity, the threat of terrorism, and omnipresent corporate control. At the same time, many of these shows attempt to visualize alternatives, using dystopian ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • After Capitalism

    Horizons of Finance, Culture, and Citizenship

    by Kennan Ferguson, Patrice Petro, Geoff Mann, Andrew Ross, Ivan Ascher, Jeffrey Sommers, Sherryl Vint, Marcus Bullock, Esther Leslie0, Cristina Venegas1, Niki Akhavan2, A. Aneesh3, Bernard C. Perley4 ...
    Series series New Directions in International Studies
    From Thomas Piketty to David Harvey, scholars are increasingly questioning whether we are entering into a post-capitalist era. If so, does this new epoch signal the failure of capitalism and emergence of alternative systems? Or does it mark the ultimate triumph of capitalism as it evolves into an unstoppable entity that takes new forms as it engulfs its opposition?After Capitalism brings together ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

    Edited by Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Sherryl Vint ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field today, marking the significant changes that have taken place in sf studies over the past 15 years.Building on the pioneering research in the first edition, the collection reorganises historical coverage of the genre to ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • After the Human

    Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century

    Edited by Sherryl Vint ...
    Series Book 6 - After Series
    After the Human provides a comprehensive overview of how a range of philosophical, ethical, and political ideas under the framework of posthumanism have transformed humanities scholarship today. Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary scholars and perspectives, it puts into dialogue the major influences from philosophy, literary study, anthropology, and science studies that set the stage ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction

    by Mark Bould, Sherryl Vint ...
    Series series Routledge Concise Histories of Literature
    The term ‘science fiction’ has an established common usage, but close examination reveals that writers, fans, editors, scholars, and publishers often use this word in different ways for different reasons. Exploring how science fiction has emerged through competing versions and the struggle to define its limits, this Concise History:provides an accessible and clear overview of the development of ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

    Edited by Sherryl Vint ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, after which the US became a global military and economic leader, this book explores the origins of American utopianism and provides a trenchant critique from the point of view of those left out of the hegemonic ideal. Centring the voices of those oppressed by or omitted from the consumerist American Dream, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD