دانلود کتاب Monstrous Liminality: Or, The Uncanny Strangers Of Secularized Modernity

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Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Secular, The Sacred, and Resacralization
Modernity, Liminality, and The Uncanny
The Modern Stranger
Modern Monsters and Haunting Spectres
Chapter Summary
Notes: Introduction
I: Frankenstein and the “Birth” of Secularized Modernity
Frankenstein and Secularization
The Historical Shift of the Monstrous
Modernity’s Monstrous Secret
The End of the Natural and the Beginning of Artificial Reality
The Uncanny Stranger in a Secular Void
Notes: Chapter I
II: Leopardi and Baudelaire: Kindred Spirits of the Modern Stranger
The Monstrosity of the Liminalizing Space of Secular Modernity
The Modern Dantes: Wanderers of a Modern and Liminalizing Hell
A Rupture in History and the Illusion of Progress
Battling the Storm that is Modernity in the Streets of Paris
Notes: Chapter II
III: Violence, The Great War, and The Modern Stranger
The Great War, Irony, & Dark Utopias
The Stranger in No Man’s Land
Trenches, Violence, and The City
Sickness and Irony: Zeno’s Ironic Utopia
Divine Violence & Messianic Time in Miller’s Leibowitz
Notes: Chapter III
IV: Boredom - An Infinite Epilogue to the Modern Stranger
The Difficult Task of Defining Boredom
The (In)Action Films of Michelangelo Antonioni
Digital Boredom
A Heroic Lack of Attunement
Notes: Chapter IV
V: The Sacredness of Digital Liminality
Hybrid Religions of Cyberpunk
God is (In) Cyberspace
Strangers in Cyberspace
Cyberspace: Heaven or Hell?
Notes: Chapter V
VI: Strange Gender and Post-Humanism
From Shelley’s ‘Hideous Progeny’ to Haraway’s Cyborg
A Spiral Dance in the Abyss
Cyborgs, Dogs, and Abortions
Acker’s Resacralization of the Symbolic
Notes: Chapter VI
Conclusion: Spectral Monsters and Modern Strangers
Spectres and Monsters
Spectres and Phantoms
Addressing the Monster in the Spectral Room
Adaptation and the Future of the Modern Stranger—A Coda
Notes: Conclusion
References
Index