Roundtable: Peter Boxall, Nancy Armstrong, Laura Marcus, Ankhi Mukherjee, Ato Quayson & Sherryl Vint скачать в хорошем качестве

Roundtable: Peter Boxall, Nancy Armstrong, Laura Marcus, Ankhi Mukherjee, Ato Quayson & Sherryl Vint

To mark the publication of Peter Boxall's 'The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel as Artificial Life', an international panel of leading critics will discuss the role the novel has played in imagining forms of artificial life. What new modes of life are emerging now? How do we understand the distinction between the living and the nonliving, the human and the nonhuman? Is the novel a privileged form in which to forge a new kind of prosthetic imagination? Based on Peter Boxall's new book, this panel will be of interest to all students and researchers of the novel and its role in imagining new forms of artificial life from 1700 to the present day. In The Prosthetic Imagination, leading critic Peter Boxall argues that we are now entering an artificial age, in which our given bodies enter into new conjunctions with our prosthetic extensions. This new age requires us to reimagine our relation to our bodies, and to our environments, and Boxall suggests that the novel as a form can guide us in this imaginative task. Across a dazzling range of prose fictions, from Thomas More's Utopia to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Boxall shows how the novel has played a central role in forging the bodies in which we extend ourselves into the world. But if the novel has helped to give our world a human shape, it also contains forms of life that elude our existing human architectures: new amalgams of the living and the non-living that are the hidden province of the novel imagination. These latent conjunctions, Boxall argues, are preserved in the novel form, and offer us images of embodied being that can help us orient ourselves to our new prosthetic condition. Find out more at: www.cambridge.org/boxall