Bodies for Profit and Power: Science Fiction and Biopolitics

by Lisa Wenger Bro

Early dystopian science fiction like George Orwell's 1984 or Thea von Harbou's Metropolis show us bleak worlds where capitalism has no boundaries and has corrupted sovereign powers, exploiting the lower classes and benefiting only a few at the top. Political laws and policies related to human life--or the biopolitical--devalue that life, making humanity little more than expendable "machines" producing for capitalism, and capitalism's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476679363
• ISBN13: 9781476679365
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up