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:	9781349464166
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	12/10/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2013
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

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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