Archive for the 'Novels' Category
• July 5, 2012 •
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Posted in Oryx and Crake
Tags: contagion, contagious, disease emergence, epidemiology, erotics, future, future of education, future of the university, humanities, Killian Quigley, libido, Margaret Atwood, myth, Oedipal complex, Oryx and Crake, outbreak, past, Priscilla Wald, psychoanalysis, Sander L. Gilman, Sharon Marcus, Sigmund Freud, utopia, world creation
• July 3, 2012 •
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Posted in Ethics of science, Genetic engineering, Oryx and Crake
Tags: Atwood, brainwashing, ethical dilemma, Ethics of science, future for humanity, Genetic Disease, Genetic engineering, plague, post-apocalyptic
• June 27, 2012 •
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Posted in Cloning, Never Let Me Go
Tags: agriculture, Archaeologies of the Future, beef, biopolitics, cattle, celebrity, ConAgra, definitions of nature, dystopia, factory farming, farming, food science, Fredric Jameson, future, GMO, Heston Blumenthal, Ian Sample, Kazuo Ishiguro, Maastricht University, Mark Post, nature, Nebraska, Never Let Me Go, Omaha, panda, physiology, postmodernism, test-tube burger, the future of food, The Guardian, the natural, utopia
• June 25, 2012 •
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Posted in Cloning, Ethics of science, Never Let Me Go
Tags: activity versus passivity, Dissemination of information, fate, Kazuo Ishiguro, narrative structure, Never Let Me Go, reader response, role of education
• June 22, 2012 •
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Posted in Cloud Atlas
Tags: ambiguity, branding, California, Chatham Isle, Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell, education, empire, england, expansion, Flanders, imperialism, Lorraine Daston, marketing, New Zealand, novel, objectivity, Peter Galison, planet, Richard Hakluyt, semiotics, solidarity, UNICEF, voyaging, Yangon, Yukon
• June 20, 2012 •
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Posted in Brave New World
Tags: archetype, Brave New World, dystopia, Eugenics, Lorraine Daston, objectivity, perfection, Peter Galison, repetition, subjectivity, type
• June 19, 2012 •
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Posted in Brave New World, Ethics of science, Genetic determinism
Tags: bioethics, biological determinism, biomedicine, bioscience, Brave New World, Cynthia Nixon, difference, discrimination, Frank Bruni, gay rights, genetics, Huxley, laboratory, New York Times, Nikolas Rose, technology
