{"product_id":"desire-and-technology-in-science-terence-h-w-shih-9780957301726","title":"Desire and Technology in Science Fiction and Beyond","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe concept of the 'desire for technology' originates with Jean Baudrillard, the French postmodernist and high-tech social thinker. \u003cem\u003eDesire for Technology in Science Fiction and Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e delves into this concept, seeking to understand the relationship between technology and human desire in science fiction and beyond. Academic disciplines have increasingly sought to bridge the gap between human beings and technology. Baudrillard points to three orders of simulacra to rethink the objectivity of science and history, taking simulacra from the Renaissance, through the Industrial Revolution, to the postmodern era, corresponding to counterfeit, production, and simulation. This title proposes three stages in the procession of science fiction. Fantasy literature belongs to the beginning, science fiction to the developing, and technological theory to the culminating stage: the expansion of science fiction. A Promethean rebellion against God's will announces the death of Nature, disclosing potential technological disasters, and stimulating the building of a human-centred technological utopia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Terence H. W. Shih\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0957301723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780957301726\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trueheart Press (Oxford Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.25d","brand":"Terence H. W. Shih","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47202202222847,"sku":"9780957301726","price":62.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b0da8fde-d645-4c42-af31-0988d266cfe0.jpg?v=1756819918","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/desire-and-technology-in-science-terence-h-w-shih-9780957301726","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}