Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat (Jan 2004)

La fraternidad de los cuerpos posthumanos. La ciencia ficción como territorio de reproducción y de resistencia del imaginario masculino tradicional

  • María Ruido

Journal volume & issue
no. 10

Abstract

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This paper analyses the representations of the body present in contemporary science-fiction literature and film. Using theoretical concepts by Althusser, Foucault and Haraway, the text establishes first a typology of cybernetic organisms in contemporary culture and reviews its presence and ideological implications in films like Robocop (1987), Johny Mnemonic (1995) or Matrix (1999). The paper argues for a self-conscience as political and historical subjects in order to avoid falling into a fallacious cyberandroginy that reinfornces phallogocentric power structures.