The cyborg and the kitchen sink; or, the salvation story of no salvation story
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Author Donna J. Haraway secured a place among writers in the postmodern pantheon with her 1985 novel 'Manifesto for Cyborgs.' Her second book, 'Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium.FemaleMan(Copyright)_Meets_OncoMouseTM' extends the author's theory pertaining to cyborg anthropology to the Internet and the Human Genome Project. In this volume, however, Haraway's theorizing fails as she gives no role to spirituality as a constituent of human consciousness or a means for human communion. Her determined antagonism to religion especially Christianity injures her analyses.
Publication Name: Science Fiction Studies
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0091-7729
Year: 1998
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Till we have interfaces
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N Katherine Hayles' 'How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics' presents a historical take on the development of the intellect, beginning with the time it was first formalized. It also forecasts the dawning of a new age in cybernetics, when virtuality will be able to relate to, and accept, natural creation. However, with posthuman simulations being a part of almost every aspect of human living, the concept of an embodied but distributed subjectivity for man may not be able to succeed.
Publication Name: Science Fiction Studies
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0091-7729
Year: 1999
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The seven beauties of science fiction
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Seven elements characterize the genre of science fiction. These are neologisms or invented words, novums or imaginary inventions, discoveries or applications, historical extrapolation/historical futurism, oxymoron or an absurd logical contradiction, scientific impertinence, sublime chronotopes or a 'space-time' continuum where fictional things according to specific laws of time and space, and the parable. Of these categories, it is probably only the novum which is specific to science fiction.
Publication Name: Science Fiction Studies
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0091-7729
Year: 1996
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