Author: Sherryl Vint
Dr. Vint’s work begins from the premise that popular culture both expresses the cultural anxieties and preoccupations of its contemporary audience and intervenes in the construction of cultural common sense, engaging with rather than merely reflecting surrounding technoculture. She has previously published Bodies of Tomorrow (2007), which investigates representations of the body in science fiction and in posthumanist discourses to argue for a version of posthumanism focused on expanding our connections to others rather than embracing fantasies of disembodiment, and Animal Alterity (2010), which extends this exploration of how we understand the human, and whom should be included in our ethical communities, focusing on the human/animal boundary articulated in philosophical and scientific discourses now restructured by material technoscientific practice and speculative representation. Dr. Vint has co-authored The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction (2011) and co-edited Beyond Cyberpunk (2010), The Routlege Companion to Science Fiction (2009), and Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (2009). She has also published widely on sf film and television, and most recently on the HBO’s The Wire for Wayne State UP’s Television Milestones series.
Her most recent publications are the edited collection Science Fiction and Cutlural Theory: A Reader and the special issue The Futures Industry, on the political project of imagining the future.
