Introduction: Science fiction and biopolitics

Vint, Sherryl

doi:10.3828/sfftv.2011.11

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“…Un trasplante de órganos y tejidos obliga a un paciente y sus familiares a vivir un proceso que tiende a reordenar las categorías culturales por las que, ese nuevo órgano, cuerpo, será comprendido y acogido (Vynt, 2011). En una versión del futuro imaginada por estos jóvenes se ve este proceso de reordenamiento: en primer lugar, lo anormal de la apariencia fantasmagórica de los corazones que son manipulados por esta tecnología no parece ser domesticada o reducida a un beneficio terapéutico que se encarga de algo patológico, es decir, a un fallo fisiológico.…”

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“…A través de la biopolítica, la vida se vuelve un objeto de control político que deriva a prácticas que direccionan la vida biológica y social de los seres humanos (Foucault, 2006). No obstante, los nuevos cuerpos que introduce la tecnociencia están produciendo nuevos significados y creencias sobre la naturaleza de la especie humana que parecieran, aún, no ser acogidos por las respuestas prácticas y estatales que regulan el uso que una persona hace de dichas tecnologías (Vynt, 2011). Esto se hace presente en el futuro imaginado por los jóvenes, donde los Estados no se molestaron por regular los límites de estas transformaciones corporales y, por ende, se producen este tipo de disputas.…”

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Cuerpos bioconstruidos: espacios de participación ciudadana para imaginar y domesticar las corporalidades del mañana

Diaz-Bustamante

2018

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El presente artículo analiza las representaciones del futuro que un grupo de jóvenes universitarios construyen a propósito de dos casos de modificación corporal por el uso de tecnologías médicas y robóticas. Para esto, se diseñó un espacio de participación ciudadana en donde se aplicaron dos técnicas cualitativas prospectivas que permitieron a los participantes compartir sus expectativas y reflexionar sobre dilemas bioéticos que pueden emerger por el uso de estas tecnologías en un país como Colombia, para el año 2034. Este trabajo busca construir puentes entre la bioética, la antropología y los estudios sociales de la ciencia y la tecnología, con el objetivo de reflexionar sobre el impacto de la implementación de estas tecnologías en la configuración de los valores morales y categorías culturales con las que los colombianos interpretarán la naturaleza de los cuerpos humanos en el futuro.

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Cuerpos bioconstruidos: espacios de participación ciudadana para imaginar y domesticar las corporalidades del mañana

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2018

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“…The body is thus seen as a permeable system, one that is unable to withstand viral invasion and also unable to contain it. Sherryl Vint (2011) has argued that such circulating biological material are 'liminal lives' or 'new subjects' of a biopolitical regime where bodily fragments like organs (that are now increasingly 'harvested' and circulated within the economy of organ trading), genetic typing and cell lines may acquire a life separate from a person and circulate independently of him/her. Vint argues that it is therefore unsurprising that contemporary popular culture foregrounds the biological and visualizes zombies and vampires as genetic mutants and viral contaminants rather than as supernatural beings.…”

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Imagining Bio-disaster, Reproducing Social Order

Sundaram¹

2012

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This article studies the imagination and representation of biological disaster in contemporary popular cinema. The texts chosen are Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 film Contagion, Danny Boyle’s modern zombie-horror classic 28 Days Later (2002), Francis Lawrence’s I Am Legend (2007) and Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men (2006). This article is interested in the ‘sensual elaboration’, within filmic narrative, of biological disaster, and will argue that these films not only communicate with but organize their viewers’ perceptions of biological disaster. It studies the narrativizing of the onset and consequences of biological disaster, coded as an ‘invasion’ of the individual and social body in these films. It further argues that the individual and social body in these texts form the key site of negotiating anxieties surrounding their inevitable collapse in the wake of social, cultural and economic breakdown following biological disaster. The narrativizing of biological disaster in these films, this article will demonstrate, performs a crisis of reproducibility and reproductivity.

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“…Other analyses of the zombie are found in academic journals and books that have a wider focus on monsters such as Niall Scott's Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths of Enduring Evil (2007) and Simon Clark's Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy: New Life for the Undead (2010). The focus of zombie analyses have been broad: particular issues examined include the zombies' ability to break boundaries and overcome binaries of dead/alive (Christie, 2011) and man/woman (Patterson, 2008); the zombies status as antithetical to the perfect, hygienic body (Dendle, 2007); and the zombie as representing those who are dehumanized and killed for the protection of the 'legitimate' subjects (Vint, 2011). Analyses have also been carried out on the horror of the zombie and why it is a terrifying figure.…”

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The Discursive Problematization of Death, Dehumanization and Sociocultural identity: An Analysis of 'The Walking Dead'

Skye¹

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<p>The zombie is a significant cultural figure which is represented and produced as being symptomatic of and relevant to contemporary concerns about death and dehumanization. This thesis will focus on the ways that death and dehumanization are changing and being negotiated within popular cultural representations and discourses regarding zombies, particularly in Frank Darabont’s television series The Walking Dead. The thesis will consider the way in which the figure of the zombie is representative of issues and discourses that are indicative of a problematization of the category of the human, and the notion of the transcendental. This will involve an examination of the changing narratives of the body, with particular regard to consumerism and the insistence of the body as a major site of the truth and value of the self, in contrast to the horrifying bodily form of the zombie. The thesis will also examine the way that dehumanization is problematized in The Walking Dead, where the human/non-human distinction is shown to be increasingly precarious and difficult to sustain. Further, the thesis will examine how the zombie is represented as manifesting the collapse of identity, as agents become alienated from the social discourses, narratives and values which constitute and categorize the subject.</p>

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Introduction: Science fiction and biopolitics

Cited by 17 publications

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Cuerpos bioconstruidos: espacios de participación ciudadana para imaginar y domesticar las corporalidades del mañana

Cuerpos bioconstruidos: espacios de participación ciudadana para imaginar y domesticar las corporalidades del mañana

Imagining Bio-disaster, Reproducing Social Order

The Discursive Problematization of Death, Dehumanization and Sociocultural identity: An Analysis of 'The Walking Dead'

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