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Disability and the Posthuman is the first study to analyse cultural representations and deployments of disability as they interact with posthumanist theories of technology and embodiment. Working across a wide range of texts, many new to critical enquiry, in contemporary writing, film and cultural practice from North America, Europe, the Middle East and Japan, it covers a diverse range of topics, including: contemporary cultural theory and aesthetics; design, engineering and gender; the visualisation of prosthetic technologies in the representation of war and conflict; and depictions of work, time and sleep. While noting the potential limitations of posthumanist assessments of the technologized body, the study argues that there are exciting, productive possibilities and subversive potentials in the dialogue between disability and posthumanism as they generate dissident crossings of cultural spaces. Such intersections cover both fictional/imagined and material/grounded examples of disability and look to a future in which the development of technology and complex embodiment of disability presence align to produce sustainable yet radical creative and critical voices.

About the Author
Stuart Murray is Professor of Contemporary Literatures and Film in the School of English at the University of Leeds.

Reviews
'Alas, I have no space to say more than that this is a beautifully produced book both as an aesthetic object and as a thought-provoking text. Together with its compelling scholarship, the reading experience of Murray's Disability and the Posthuman could scarcely be bettered.'Margrit Shildrick, Lambda
'Murray makes a strong case that to understand modern film, literature, and contemporary society, people who have not thought much about disability studies should do so ... Murray's book provides many helpful ideas for this exploration.'
Arthur Blaser, Disability Studies Quarterly



Book Information
ISBN 9781789621655
Author Stuart Fletcher Murray
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Liverpool University Press
Publisher Liverpool University Press