{"product_id":"living-in-technical-legality-kieran-tranter-9781474420891","title":"Living in Technical Legality: Science Fiction and Law as Technology","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA user's guide to living within a technological culture and its technologised law\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television's \u003cem\u003eBattlestar Galactica\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDoctor Who\u003c\/em\u003e, this is the first sustained examination of legality in science fiction. Kieran Tranter includes substantive worked examples of the law and legal concepts projected by these science fiction texts, such as Australian car culture, legal responses to cloning and the relationship between legal theory and science fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSuccessive transformations have resulted in the emergence of a total technological world where old separations about \"nature\" and \"culture\" have declined. With this, the tendency towards technicity within modern law has flourished--there has often been identified a mechanistic essence to modern law in its domination of human life. Usually this has been considered an \"end\" and a loss, the human swallowed by the machine. However this innovative book sets out to re-address this tendency. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy examining science fiction as the culture of our total technological world, it journeys with the partially consumed human into the belly of the machine. What it finds is unexpected. Rather than a cold uniformity of exchangeable productive units, there is warmth, diversity and \"life\" for the nodes in the networks. Through its science fiction focus, it argues that this life generates a very different law of responsibility that can guide living well in technical legality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kieran Tranter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474420893\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474420891\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/25\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Kieran Tranter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44123876327679,"sku":"9781474420891","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_398021b6-709f-43ef-81ee-13b9e08f4a5e.jpg?v=1687433408","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/living-in-technical-legality-kieran-tranter-9781474420891","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}