Solarpunk Cyborgs against Cyberpunk’s Pessimism: The Evolution of the Feminist Cyborg Archetype from Moxyland, to “Solar Child” and “For the Snake of Power”

Rivero Vadillo, Alejandro|||0000-0002-1991-289X

Solarpunk Cyborgs against Cyberpunk’s Pessimism: The Evolution of the Feminist Cyborg Archetype from Moxyland, to “Solar Child” and “For the Snake of Power”

This article explores the ways in which some female-authored solarpunk stories employ cyborg models developed by feminist cyberpunk fiction in order to continue with its traditional role of liberating/liberated ontological subject. The text explores contemporary critical readings of cyberpunk fictio...

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Autor:	Rivero Vadillo, Alejandro\|\|\|0000-0002-1991-289X
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Fecha de publicación:	2023
País:	España
Institución:	Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
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Idioma:	inglés
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Palabra clave:	Feminist cyberpunk Solarpunk Feminist cyborg Female cyborgs STEM Historia Antropología Literatura History Anthropology Literature

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title	Solarpunk Cyborgs against Cyberpunk’s Pessimism: The Evolution of the Feminist Cyborg Archetype from Moxyland, to “Solar Child” and “For the Snake of Power”
spellingShingle	Solarpunk Cyborgs against Cyberpunk’s Pessimism: The Evolution of the Feminist Cyborg Archetype from Moxyland, to “Solar Child” and “For the Snake of Power” Rivero Vadillo, Alejandro\|\|\|0000-0002-1991-289X Feminist cyberpunk Solarpunk Feminist cyborg Female cyborgs STEM Historia Antropología Literatura History Anthropology Literature
title_short	Solarpunk Cyborgs against Cyberpunk’s Pessimism: The Evolution of the Feminist Cyborg Archetype from Moxyland, to “Solar Child” and “For the Snake of Power”
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description	This article explores the ways in which some female-authored solarpunk stories employ cyborg models developed by feminist cyberpunk fiction in order to continue with its traditional role of liberating/liberated ontological subject. The text explores contemporary critical readings of cyberpunk fiction and analyzes Lauren Beukes’ Moxyland (2008), Camille Meyers’ “Solar Child” (2017), and Brenda Cooper’s “For the Snake of Power” (2018) and analyzes the way in which embodied and disembodied female cyborg subjectivities are represented. The article argues that although solarpunk has abandoned the classic cyberpunk idea of subversion in cyberspace, some of the techno-human alliances instigated by it have remained, either developing physical cyborgs liberated from the biological limitations of materiality, as in Meyers’ story, or representing STEM-experienced women who cooperate with AIs in order to fight against capitalism’s material structures of power.
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Solarpunk Cyborgs against Cyberpunk’s Pessimism: The Evolution of the Feminist Cyborg Archetype from Moxyland, to “Solar Child” and “For the Snake of Power”

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