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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Part One -- Introduction / McQuillen, Colleen / Vaingurt, Julia -- Part Two: Questions of Ethics and Alterity -- CHAPTER 1. Our Posthuman Past: Subjectivity, History, and Utopia in Late-Soviet Science Fiction / Gomel, Elana -- CHAPTER 2. Digressions in Progress: Posthuman Loneliness and the Will to Play in the Work of the Strugatsky Brothers / Vaingurt, Julia -- CHAPTER 3. Humans, Animals, Machines: Scenarios of Raschelovechivanie in Gray Goo and Matisse / Khagi, Sofya -- Part Three: Natural, Built, and Imagined Environments -- CHAPTER 4. Human Adaptation in Late-Soviet Environmental Science Fiction / McQuillen, Colleen -- CHAPTER 5. “Drilled Humans” or Automated Systems? Reconsidering Human-Machine Integration in Late-Soviet Design / West, Diana Kurkovsky -- Part Four: Technologies of the Self -- CHAPTER 6. Romantic Aesthetics and Cybernetic Fiction / Emery, Jacob -- CHAPTER 7. Writing and Technology: Writing the Self in “Real Time” / Toland, Kristina -- CHAPTER 8. Modes of Perception in Transmodal Fiction: New Russian Subjectivity / Lakhmitko, Katerina -- Part Five: Politics and Social Action -- CHAPTER 9. Nothing but Mammals: Post-Soviet Sexuality after the End of History / Wilson, Trevor -- CHAPTER 10. Postsocialist Platonov: The Question of Humanism and the New Russian Left / Platt, Jonathan Brooks -- Part Six: Artistic Practices -- CHAPTER 11. An Interview with Keti Chukhrov about Love Machines / Kotova, Alina -- CHAPTER 12. Some Entropy in Your Tea: Notes on the Ontopoetics of Artificial Intelligence / Anikina, Alex -- Index 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
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