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Availability:In StockContributor:Timothy Morton, Christopher Schaberg, Ian BogostSeries:Object LessonsPublish date:2021-09-23Pages:144
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781501375804ISBN-10:1501375806UPC:9781501375804Book Category:Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, Aesthetics, Popular CultureSize:6.40 x 4.70 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3Product ID:SCTHP5R2GA
Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. On Earth, actual rockets explode over Texas while others make their way to Mars. But what are spacecraft, and just what can they teach us about imagination, ecology, democracy, and the nature of objects? Why do certain spacecraft stand out in popular culture?
If ever there were a spacecraft that could be detached from its context, sold as toys, turned into Disney rides, parodied, and flit around in everyone's head-the Millennium Falcon would be it. Springing from this infamous Star Wars vehicle, Spacecraft takes readers on an intergalactic journey through science fiction and speculative philosophy, revealing real-world political and ecological lessons along the way. In this book Timothy Morton shows how spacecraft are never mere flights of fancy.Languages:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781501375804ISBN-10:1501375806UPC:9781501375804Book Category:Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, Aesthetics, Popular CultureSize:6.40 x 4.70 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3Product ID:SCTHP5R2GA
Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, USA. They are the author of 16 books, including Being Ecological (2018) and Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (2017), and 200 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. www.ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com @the_eco_thought
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