Alien chic : posthumanism and the other within / Neil Badmington.

By:

Badmington, Neil, 1971-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (x, 203 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

020330764X
0203687345
9780203687345
9780203307649
020330764X
9786610178179
6610178178
1134388896
9781134388899
1280178175
9781280178177
1134388888
9781134388882

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Alien chic.DDC classification:

001.942 22

LOC classification:

BF2050 .B33 2004eb

Other classification:

71.57
AP 53900
MS 7960

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Contents:

Introduction : they all laughed -- Reading the Red Planet ; or, little green men at work -- It lives! ; or, the persistence of humanism -- I want to be leaving ; or, tracking alien abduction -- Alien objects, human subjects -- A crisis of versus : rereading the alien -- Conclusion : from difference to differance (with an 'a').

Summary: Alien Chic sets out to provide a cultural history of the alien since the 1950s, asking why our attitudes to aliens have changed from fear to affection, and what this can tell us about how we now see ourselves and others.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-196) and index.

Alien Chic sets out to provide a cultural history of the alien since the 1950s, asking why our attitudes to aliens have changed from fear to affection, and what this can tell us about how we now see ourselves and others.