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