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9780819573346

We Modern People

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  • ISBN13:

    9780819573346

  • ISBN10:

    0819573345

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2013-01-03
  • Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr
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Summary

Science fiction emerged in Russia considerably earlier than its English version and instantly became the hallmark of Russian modernity. We Modern People investigates why science fiction appeared here, on the margins of Europe, before the genre had even been named, and what it meant for people who lived under conditions that Leon Trotsky famously described as "combined and uneven development." Russian science fiction was embraced not only in literary circles and popular culture, but also by scientists, engineers, philosophers, and political visionaries. Anindita Banerjee explores the handful of well-known early practitioners, such as Briusov, Bogdanov, and Zamyatin, within a much larger continuum of new archival material comprised of journalism, scientific papers, popular science texts, advertisements, and independent manifestos on social transformation. In documenting the unusual relationship between Russian science fiction and Russian modernity, this book offers a new critical perspective on the relationship between science, technology, the fictional imagination, and the consciousness of being modern.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity
Conquering Space
Beyond East and West on the Tracks of Modernity: Science Fiction Goes to Siberia
From Air Dramas to Mystical Wars: The Ascending Plane of Science Fiction
From Siberia to the Planet Mars: The Cosmic Limits of Science Fiction
Transcending Time
Telos and Chronos: The Two Time Scales of Science Fiction
A Poetics of Excess: The Clashing Regimes of Science Fiction
Kings of Time: Science Fiction's Intimations of the Future
Generating Power
Electric Origins: The Anode and Cathode of Ethical Modernity
Virtual Electrification: Science Fiction in the Age of Edison
Electrifying Modernism: The Vitalist Alchemy of Science Fiction
GOELRO Electrifiction: Science Fiction's Synthesis of Salvation
Creating the Human
Evolving beyond Darwin: Body Mind, and Matter in Science Fiction
From Man-Machines to Plant-Humans: The Cosmic Bodies of Science Fictio
Healing Darwin and Marx: The Hemostatic Universe of Science Fiction
Afterwor(L)D: Russian Science Fiction and The Un-Making of Modernity
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