On Sight, Technology, and Science Fiction: Transhumanist Visions in Contemporary Canadian Dystopia
This article examines a number of practices of observation as represented in contemporary Canadian dystopias in light of technological developments as seen by transhumanist thought. It argues that the transhumanist scopic practices that underlie their science-fictional imaginaries are in fact dysto...
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2022-07-01
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This article examines a number of practices of observation as represented in contemporary Canadian dystopias in light of technological developments as seen by transhumanist thought. It argues that the transhumanist scopic practices that underlie their science-fictional imaginaries are in fact dystopian, and, as such, it takes examples from dystopian literature to illustrate how the nature of sight and seeing in the techno- and image-mediated context presents dangerous pitfalls for subject formation, identity politics, and agency. The article distinguishes between “vision” as a body of ideas and “sight” as the actual ways of seeing that may be reciprocal and create bonds of affectivity or, in the case of the transhumanist predicament, be instead founded on watching as the one-sided commodifying alternative.
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| spelling | doaj.art-b1115816c3ec4ac78b10e95ac71fd8202022-12-22T00:53:43ZcatAsociación Cultural 452ºF; Universitat de Barcelona452ºF2013-32942022-07-012710.1344/452f.2022.27.12On Sight, Technology, and Science Fiction: Transhumanist Visions in Contemporary Canadian DystopiaLidia María Cuadrado Payeras0Universidad de Salamanca This article examines a number of practices of observation as represented in contemporary Canadian dystopias in light of technological developments as seen by transhumanist thought. It argues that the transhumanist scopic practices that underlie their science-fictional imaginaries are in fact dystopian, and, as such, it takes examples from dystopian literature to illustrate how the nature of sight and seeing in the techno- and image-mediated context presents dangerous pitfalls for subject formation, identity politics, and agency. The article distinguishes between “vision” as a body of ideas and “sight” as the actual ways of seeing that may be reciprocal and create bonds of affectivity or, in the case of the transhumanist predicament, be instead founded on watching as the one-sided commodifying alternative. https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/38369transhumanismdystopian fictionCanadian literaturevisionsighthuman enhancement |
| spellingShingle | Lidia María Cuadrado Payeras On Sight, Technology, and Science Fiction: Transhumanist Visions in Contemporary Canadian Dystopia 452ºF transhumanism dystopian fiction Canadian literature vision sight human enhancement |
| title | On Sight, Technology, and Science Fiction: Transhumanist Visions in Contemporary Canadian Dystopia |
| title_full | On Sight, Technology, and Science Fiction: Transhumanist Visions in Contemporary Canadian Dystopia |
| title_fullStr | On Sight, Technology, and Science Fiction: Transhumanist Visions in Contemporary Canadian Dystopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | On Sight, Technology, and Science Fiction: Transhumanist Visions in Contemporary Canadian Dystopia |
| title_short | On Sight, Technology, and Science Fiction: Transhumanist Visions in Contemporary Canadian Dystopia |
| title_sort | on sight technology and science fiction transhumanist visions in contemporary canadian dystopia |
| topic | transhumanism dystopian fiction Canadian literature vision sight human enhancement |
| url | https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/38369 |
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