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urn:uuid:a3cc91bc-258f-4d24-bc12-45f662cbe22f 03 01 01 urn:uuid:a3cc91bc-258f-4d24-bc12-45f662cbe22f 15 9781800647510 06 10.11647/OBP.0303 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 Life, Re-Scaled The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance 1 B01 21 0000-0003-0839-3120 Liliane Campos 2 B01 Pierre-Louis Patoine 01 eng 00 418 03 12 DS 20 life sciences 10 LIT000000 04 PN55 12 DSK 20 fiction 10 SCI020000 12 FA 20 poetry 10 SCI008000 10 ART060000 20 comics 12 DSB 20 performance 12 PS 20 ethics 12 RNT 12 AFKP 20 philosophy 20 politics 20 biological imagination 01 06 03 00 <p>This edited volume explores new engagements with the life sciences in contemporary fiction, poetry, comics and performance. The gathered case studies investigate how recent creative work reframes the human within microscopic or macroscopic scales, from cellular biology to systems ecology, and engages with the ethical, philosophical, and political issues raised by the twenty-first century’s shifting views of life. The collection thus examines literature and performance as spaces that shape our contemporary biological imagination.</p><p>Comprised of thirteen chapters by an international group of academics, Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance engages with four main areas of biological study: ‘Invisible scales: cells, microbes and mycelium’, ‘Neuro-medical imaging and diagnosis’, ‘Pandemic imaginaries’, and ‘Ecological scales’. The authors examine these concepts in emerging forms such as plant theatre, climate change art, ecofiction and pandemic fiction, including the work of Jeff Vandermeer, Jon McGregor, Jeff Lemire, and Extinction Rebellion’s Red Rebel Brigade performances.</p><p>This valuable resource moves beyond the biological paradigms that were central to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to outline the specificity of a contemporary imagination. Life, Re-Scaled is crucial reading for academics, scholars, and authors alike, as it proposes an unprecedented overview of the relationship between literature, performance and the life sciences in the twenty-first century.</p> 01 00 03 02 https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0303_frontcover.jpg Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 16 Sorbonne Nouvelle University 01 programname PRISMES laboratory 16 Institut Universitaire de France Cambridge, UK 04 19 2022 06 15 9781800647497 06 15 9781800647503 06 15 9781800647510 06 15 9781800647558 06 15 9781800647541 06 15 9781800647527 06 15 9781800647534 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0303.pdf 99 04 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0303 99 04