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Ayn Rand and the posthuman = the mind-made future /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ayn Rand and the posthuman/ by Ben Murnane.
Reminder of title:	the mind-made future /
Author:	Murnane, Ben.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2018.,
Description:	ix, 197 p. :digital ;23 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	Chapter 1: Introduction: A Posthuman Objective -- Chapter 2: Points of Entry -- Chapter 3: The Posthuman and the Objectivist -- Chapter 4: Rand Noir vs Rand Incorporated -- Chapter 5: Objectivism in BioShock -- Chapter 6: Howard Roark, John Galt, and The Transhumanist Wager -- Chapter 7: Afterword: The Mind-Made Future.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	American fiction - History and criticism. - 20th century -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90853-3
ISBN:	9783319908533

Ayn Rand and the posthuman = the mind-made future /
Murnane, Ben.

Ayn Rand and the posthumanthe mind-made future /[electronic resource] :by Ben Murnane. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - ix, 197 p. :digital ;23 cm.

Chapter 1: Introduction: A Posthuman Objective -- Chapter 2: Points of Entry -- Chapter 3: The Posthuman and the Objectivist -- Chapter 4: Rand Noir vs Rand Incorporated -- Chapter 5: Objectivism in BioShock -- Chapter 6: Howard Roark, John Galt, and The Transhumanist Wager -- Chapter 7: Afterword: The Mind-Made Future.

Ayn Rand and the Posthuman is a study of the American novelist's relationship with twenty-first-century ideas about technology. Rand wrote science fiction that has inspired Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, politicians, and economists. Ben Murnane demonstrates Rand's connection to, and impact on, those with a "posthuman" vision, in which human and machine merge. The text examines the philosophical intersections between Rand's philosophy of Objectivism and posthumanism, and Rand's influence on transhumanism, a major branch of posthumanist thought. The book further investigates Rand's presence and portrayal in various examples of posthumanist science fiction, including Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, popular videogame BioShock, and Zoltan Istvan's novel The Transhumanist Wager. Considering Rand's influence from a cultural, political, technological, and economic perspective, this study throws light on an under-documented but highly significant aspect of Rand's legacy.

ISBN: 9783319908533

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-90853-3doiSubjects--Personal Names:

3237868
Rand, Ayn
--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

541495
American fiction
--History and criticism.--20th century

LC Class. No.: PS3535.A547

Dewey Class. No.: 813.52

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