Science Fiction and Digital Technologies in Argentine and Brazilian Culture

by E. King

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137338761
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	09/12/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	242
File size:	2 MB

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.

Table 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

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