Murnane Ayn Rand and the Posthuman

The Mind-Made Future
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-90853-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

Ayn Rand and the Posthuman is a study of the American novelist’s relationship with twenty-first-century ideas about technology. Rand wrote science fiction that has inspired Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, politicians, and economists. Ben Murnane demonstrates Rand’s connection to, and impact on, those with a “posthuman” vision, in which human and machine merge. The text examines the philosophical intersections between Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism and posthumanism, and Rand’s influence on transhumanism, a major branch of posthumanist thought. The book further investigates Rand’s presence and portrayal in various examples of posthumanist science fiction, including Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda , popular videogame BioShock , and Zoltan Istvan’s novel The Transhumanist Wager . Considering Rand’s influence from a cultural, political, technological, and economic perspective, this study throws light on an under-documented but highly significant aspect of Rand’s legacy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murnane, Ben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: A Posthuman Objective.- Chapter 2: Points of Entry.- Chapter 3: The Posthuman and the Objectivist.- Chapter 4: Rand Noir vs Rand Incorporated.- Chapter 5: Objectivism in BioShock .- Chapter 6: Howard Roark, John Galt, and The Transhumanist Wager .- Chapter 7: Afterword: The Mind-Made Future.

Über Autor(innen)

Ben Murnane was born in 1984. He is the author of a memoir, Two in a Million (2008), and a collection of poetry, Feather Silence (2010), and has written for several newspapers and academic publications. He completed his PhD at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland in 2016.