The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Russia

Colleen McQuillen, Julia Vaingurt

Academic Studies Press, 2018 - Art - 278 pages

The enmeshment of the human body with various forms of technology is a phenomenon that characterizes lived and imagined experiences in Russian arts of the modernist and postmodernist eras. In contrast to the post-revolutionary fixation on mechanical engineering, industrial progress, and the body as a machine, the postmodern, postindustrial period probes the meaning of being human not only from a physical, bodily perspective, but also from the philosophical perspectives of subjectivity and consciousness. The Human Reimagined examines the ways in which literary and artistic representations of the body, selfhood, subjectivity, and consciousness illuminate late- and post-Soviet ideas about the changing relationships among the individual, the environment, technology, and society.

Contributors include: Alex Anikina, Keti Chukhrov, Jacob Emery, Elana Gomel, Sofya Khagi, Katerina Lakhmitko, Colleen McQuillen, Jonathan Brooks Platt, Kristina Toland, Julia Vaingurt, Diana Kurkovsky West, Trevor Wilson

About the author

Julia Vaingurt is associate professor in the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has published widely on Russian modernism and avant-garde, including Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde: Technology and Arts in Russia of the 1920s (Northwestern University Press, 2013).

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Russia; Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century; Cultural revolutions; Cultural revolutions: Russia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
• Editors: Colleen McQuillen, Julia Vaingurt
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press, 2018
• ISBN: 1618117335, 9781618117335
• Length: 278 pages
• Subjects: Art / History / Contemporary (1945-); Art / Russian & Soviet; Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century; Literary Criticism / Russian & Soviet