Science Fiction as Legal Imaginary (TechNomos)

By: Alex Green, Mitchell Travis and Kieran Tranter

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Synopsis: This book examines how science fiction informs the legal imagination of technological futures.Science fiction, the contributors to this book argue, is a storehouse of images, tropes, concepts and memes that inform the legal imagination of the future, and in doing so generate impetus for change. Specifically, the contributors examine how science fictions imagine human life in space, in the digital and as formed and negotiated by corporations. They then connect this imaginary to how law should be understood in the present and changed for the future. Across the chapters, there is an urgent sense of the need for law – as it is has been, and as it might become – to order and safeguard the future for a multiplicity of vulnerable entities.This book will appeal to scholars and students with interests in law and technology, legal theory, cultural legal studies and law and the humanities.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781040227350
Related ISBNs:: 9781003412274, 9781040227329, 9781032534374
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 11/21/24
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Alex Green, Mitchell Travis and Kieran Tranter
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Alex Green
Edited by:: Mitchell Travis
Edited by:: Kieran Tranter