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‘Something Like a Fiction’: Speculative Intersections of Sexuality and Technology Veronica Hollinger

outline / 概要

• … in response to the cyberpunk phenomenon, sf has almost obsessively (re)imagined the post-human subject at a variety of ‘conjunctures’ with the technological.
• I will focus on pre-cyberpunk science fiction in order to examine some of sf’s earlier literalisations of our increasingly intimate elations with/in the cultures of technology.

Judith Batler says;

“sex” becomes something like a fiction, perhaps a ‘fantasy’.

and Veronica(author) argues in turn, it also becomes something like a science fiction, as fantasies of sex/gender become literalized in the discursive constructions of sf narratives.