@misc{10481/69977,
year = {2021},
month = {6},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/69977},
abstract = {Tao Lin’s novel Taipei (2013) can be described as a picture of transhuman existence in the current digital world. However, its poetics of failure does not seem to adjust to the typically utopian visions that have often been related to transhumanism. Instead, the novel’s aesthetic approach resists diverse forms of transhumanist universalism in ways that are closer to the theoretical premises of critical posthumanism and agential materialism. In this article, I analyze Lin’s use of accountable metaphors and poetic failure in Taipei as a means to resist uncritical claims to transhumanist, universalist aesthetics.},
abstract = {Taipei (2013), de Tao Lin, podría describirse como un retrato de la existencia transhumana en el mundo digital actual. Sin embargo, su enfoque estético desde la perspectiva de la poética del fracaso no parece ajustarse a las típicas visiones utópicas que se relacionan con el transhumanismo. En vez de eso, dicho enfoque parece dar la impresión de resistir las diversas formas del universalismo transhumanista de un modo que estaría más cercano a las premisas teóricas del posthumanismo crítico y el materialismo agencial. En este artículo analizo el uso narrativo de la metáfora responsable y la poética del fracaso en Taipei como un modo de resistir supuestos complacientes con la estética universalista del transhumanismo.},
organization = {Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness},
organization = {University of Zaragoza	FFI2015-63506},
publisher = {Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos},
keywords = {Critical posthumanism},
keywords = {Transhumanism},
keywords = {Agential materialism},
keywords = {Accountability},
keywords = {Poetics of failure},
keywords = {Tao Lin},
keywords = {Posthumanismo crítico},
keywords = {Transhumanismo},
keywords = {Materialismo agencial},
keywords = {Responsabilidad},
keywords = {Poética del fracaso},
title = {Accountable Metaphors: The Transhuman Poetics of Failure in Tao Lin’s Taipei},
doi = {10.28914/Atlantis-2021-43.1.02},
author = {Fernández Santiago, Miriam},
}