Primo Levi’s dystopian science fiction and the new coronavirua: the formal defect of technology
The new coronavirus pandemic has made the idea that we are living in the eminences of a dystopia. Instigated by this idea, we explore in this essay the potential of dystopian science fiction texts to tension the notion of scientific truth by omitting information and generating uncertainties about th...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) |
| Repositorio: | Repositório Institucional da UNESP |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/237761 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5902/1679849X63959 http://hdl.handle.net/11449/237761 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Science fiction Dystopia Primo Levi Coronavirus Technology |
| Sumario: | The new coronavirus pandemic has made the idea that we are living in the eminences of a dystopia. Instigated by this idea, we explore in this essay the potential of dystopian science fiction texts to tension the notion of scientific truth by omitting information and generating uncertainties about the reality, involving technological artifacts that condition the possibilities of life and sociability, as in the novel The machine stops by E. M. Forster. Based on the short story Protection from the book Formal defect by Primo Levi - Jew, chemist and survivor of Shoa -, we discuss his perception of science and we establish a parallel with our context approaching technology as a restriction on freedom and truth and as an extension that limits human life. We hope this essay may help this literary subgenre to continue fulfilling their alert role for the imminent dangers of our society. |
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