Science Fiction and Digital Technologies in Argentine and Brazilian - Cultur

Fictional narratives produced in Latin America often borrow tropes from contemporary science fiction to examine the shifts in the nature of power in neoliberal society. King examines how this leads towards a market-governed control society and also explores new models of agency beyond that of the individual.

List of contents

1. Espiritismo Digital in Cyberfiction from Brazil 2. Race and the Digital Body in Cyberfiction from Brazil 3. Cruz diablo: Cyberspace as Frontier 4. Distributed Agency in Marcelo Cohen's Casa de Ottro 5. Memory and Affective Technologies in the Argentine Comic Book Series Cybersix 6. Prosthetic Memory and the Disruption of Affective Control in the Graphic Fiction of Lourenço Mutarelli

About the author

Edward King is a lecturer in Portuguese at Bristol University, UK and a former Junior Research Fellow at St Catharine s College, University of Cambridge, UK.

Summary

Fictional narratives produced in Latin America often borrow tropes from contemporary science fiction to examine the shifts in the nature of power in neoliberal society. King examines how this leads towards a market-governed control society and also explores new models of agency beyond that of the individual.

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Product details

• Authors: E King, E. King
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.12.2015
• EAN: 9781349464166
• ISBN: 978-1-349-46416-6
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, The arts: general issues, Arts, Society & culture: general, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Media and Communication, Regional Studies, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Latin American Culture, Ethnology—Latin America, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Comic;culture;cyberspace;memory;Narrative;nature;society