title: In search of a center: Aporias of the prosthetic God
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metadata.value: Fröschle, Ulrich
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metadata.value: 2023-12-19T16:39:42Z
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metadata.value: 2023-12-19T16:39:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Fröschle U. In search of a center: Aporias of the prosthetic God. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2023, 20 (3): 591–608. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.312 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2023.312
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44528
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metadata.value: The article deals with the capability and productivity of literature to visualise and discuss
  chances and problems arising from future developments and constellations using the example
  of trans- or posthumanism as one of the most influental ideological concepts of our time. It is
  shown how this seemingly scientific idea has been imagined as well as deconstructed in literary
  texts a long time before transhumanism solidified as an ideology. Literary texts allow to
  play things through to an end — or another, and thereby highly specialised scientific topics
  become open to a broader discussion outside the ivory tower: Beginning with H. von Kleist’s
  famous essay on “The Puppet Theatre” (1810), that reflects upon the question of human consciousness
  using the example of dancing prosthesis carriers, it is also demonstrated, that literary
  texts can defamiliarize our common perception of everyday world to set us thinking about
  it, be it Goethe’s “Faust II” with its homunculus episode, Marinettis novel “Mafarka the Futurist”
  (1909) and its flying artificial man, E. Jünger’s extensive essay “The Worker” (1932) on
  modern serialisation, M. Houellebecq’s novel “Possibility of an Island” (2005) with a posthuman
  view on transhumanistic developments or G. Bear’s SF novel “Blood Music” (1985), imagining
  a completely posthuman world.
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metadata.value: The article harks back on a presentation on October 25–26, 2018 at the III D. V. Sarabianov International
  Congress of Art Historians of the GII in Moscow (“Boundaries of the Norm: The Transformation of
  Humanism in Russian and European Culture of the New and Newest Times”). This version here was created
  within the research project GAČR No. 20-02986S at the Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic)
  “Unknown Worlds — Other Societies — New People. Transcultural Processes in Austrian Future Fiction of
  the Inter-War Period”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 20; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: transhumanism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: post-humanism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Kleist
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Marinetti
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Junger
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Bear
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Houellebecq
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: In search of a center: Aporias of the prosthetic God
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metadata.value: Article
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