TY  - GEN
AB  - Vision, Technology and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature interrogates an array of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories from Mexico whose themes engage directly with visual technologies and the subjectivities they help produce all published during and influenced by the countrys neoliberal era. This book argues that television, computers, and smartphones and the literary narratives that treat them all correspond to separate-yet-overlapping scopic regimes within the country today. Amidst the shifts occurring in the countrys field of vision during this period, the authors of these cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk narratives imagine how these devices contribute to producing specular subjectsor subjects who are constituted in large measure by their use and interaction with visual technologies. In doing so, they repeatedly recur to the posthuman figure of the cyborg in order to articulate these changes; Stephen C. Tobin therefore contends that the literary cyborg becomes a discursive site for working through the problematics of sight in Mexico during the globalized era. In all, these specular fictions represent an exceptional tendency within literary expressionespecially within the cyberpunk genrethat grapples with themes and issues regarding the nature of vision being increasingly mediated by technology.
AU  - Tobin, Stephen C.,
CN  - PQ7207.S34
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-031-31156-7
DO  - doi
ID  - 1471538
KW  - Science fiction, Mexican
KW  - Cyberpunk fiction
KW  - Vision in literature.
KW  - Technology in literature.
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-31156-7
N1  - Includes index.
N2  - Vision, Technology and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature interrogates an array of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories from Mexico whose themes engage directly with visual technologies and the subjectivities they help produce all published during and influenced by the countrys neoliberal era. This book argues that television, computers, and smartphones and the literary narratives that treat them all correspond to separate-yet-overlapping scopic regimes within the country today. Amidst the shifts occurring in the countrys field of vision during this period, the authors of these cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk narratives imagine how these devices contribute to producing specular subjectsor subjects who are constituted in large measure by their use and interaction with visual technologies. In doing so, they repeatedly recur to the posthuman figure of the cyborg in order to articulate these changes; Stephen C. Tobin therefore contends that the literary cyborg becomes a discursive site for working through the problematics of sight in Mexico during the globalized era. In all, these specular fictions represent an exceptional tendency within literary expressionespecially within the cyberpunk genrethat grapples with themes and issues regarding the nature of vision being increasingly mediated by technology.
SN  - 9783031311567
SN  - 3031311566
T1  - Vision, technology, and subjectivity in Mexican cyberpunk literature /
TI  - Vision, technology, and subjectivity in Mexican cyberpunk literature /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-031-31156-7
ER  -