{"product_id":"9781137578228","title":"The Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics: Human, Superhuman, Transhuman, Post\/Human","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics: Human, Superhuman, Transhuman, Post\/Human\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eJeffery, Scott\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the concepts of Post\/Humanism and Transhumanism as  depicted in superhero comics. Recent decades have seen mainstream audiences  embrace the comic book Superhuman. Meanwhile there has been increasing concern  surrounding human enhancement technologies, with the techno-scientific  movement of Transhumanism arguing that it is time humans took active control  of their evolution.  Utilising Deleuze  and Guattari’s notion of the rhizome as a non-hierarchical system of knowledge  to conceptualize the superhero narrative in terms of its political, social and  aesthetic relations to the history of human technological enhancement, this  book draws upon a diverse range of texts to explore the way in which the  posthuman has been represented in superhero comics, while simultaneously  highlighting its shared historical development with Post\/Humanist critical  theory and the material techno-scientific practices of Transhumanism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2016-10-12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781137578228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/978-1-137-54950-1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210.0cm x148.0cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 264.0\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44752444260492,"sku":"9781137578228","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781137578228.jpg?v=1762354648","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781137578228","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}