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

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 ideologic...

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Author: Ruido, María
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2004
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/22191
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/22191
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Teoria feminista
Feminist theory
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Summary: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 reinforces phallogocentric power structures.