Drones, Clones, and Alpha Babes: Retrofitting Star Trek's Humanism, Post-9/11
Diana M. A. Relke
Drones, Clones, and Alpha Babes: Retrofitting Star Trek's Humanism, Post-9/11
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The Star Trek franchise represents one of the most successful emanations of popular media in our culture. The number of books, both popular and scholarly, published on the subject of Star Trek is massive, with more and more titles printed every year. Very few, however, have looked at Star Trek in terms of the dialectics of humanism and the posthuman, the pervasiveness of advanced technology, and the complications of gender identity. In Drones, Clones and Alpha Babes, Diana Relke sheds light on how the Star Trek narratives influence and are influenced by shifting cultural values in the United States, using these as portals to the sociopolitical and sociocultural landscapes of the United States, pre- and post-9/11. From her Canadian perspective, Relke focuses on Star Trek's uniquely American version of liberal humanism, extends it into a broader analysis of ideological features, and avoids a completely positive or negative critique, choosing instead to honour the contradictions inherent in the complexity of the subject.

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English
ISBN
978-1-55238-667-5
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Title Page
Bibliographic Information
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Modernism/Postmodernism
Chapter 2: Regendering Command
Chapter 3: Phallic Mothers
Chapter 4:Techno-maternalism
Chapter 5: Queen Bees
Chapter 6: Humanism/Transhumanism
Chapter 7: Cyborg Emergence
Chapter 8: Extropia of Borg
Chapter 9: Holographic Love
Chapter 10: Time, the Final Frontier
Afterword
Works Cited
INDEX
Back Cover
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