Science Fiction and Digital Technologies in Argentine and Brazilian Culture [electronic resource] /
King, E.author.
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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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.
Espiritismo digital in cyberfiction from Brazil -- Race and the digital body in cyberfiction from Brazil -- Cruz diablo: cyberspace as frontier -- Distributed agency in Marcelo Cohen's Casa de ottro -- Memory and affective technologies in the Argentine comic book series Cybersix -- Prosthetic memory and the disruption of affective control in the graphic fiction of Lourenço Mutarelli.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Arts.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Arts.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Latin American Culture.