Estudios de Teoría Literaria (Mar 2020)
New scientific fiction: the relapse into “philosophy of identity”
Abstract
The return of a new sciencie-fiction in the last years, which purposes surpass the “pure novelesque”, contemplates the urge to find a meaning to the change of materials’ hierarchy, used in these fictions. The description of worlds captured by large computer trusts, in these new anticipation fictions, intentionally, makes use of social and scientific theories, in the speculative genre mood, connected with metafictional devices. The prescence of a narrative instance that, by means of omniscience estrangement, and a strong load of scientific intertextuality, order the chaos of paranoid perceptions, contrast with “weak” forms of narration, familiar with the ethnographic and postautonomous novel, linked with the genre. This external mode of language, origin of the text murmur, constitutes itself, in the political unconscious of the compositive form of the new scientific fiction, in wise discourse.
