THE SIMULATED BODY IN A GERONTOCRATIC CULTURE: HOMEOSTASIS, GENOME, AND FASHION IN BRUCE STERLING’S "HOLY FIRE"
THE SIMULATED BODY IN A GERONTOCRATIC CULTURE: HOMEOSTASIS, GENOME, AND FASHION IN BRUCE STERLING’S "HOLY FIRE"
Author(s): Kálmán Matolcsy Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: fashion; genome; gerontocratic culture; homeostasis; simulated body
Summary/Abstract: In "Universal Donors in a Vampire Culture", Donna J. Haraway defines the present conceptualization of the human as "the ontology of databases and the marriage of genomics and informatics." Utilizing Haraway's diagnosis of the simulacrum of the human, the paper demonstrates how Sterling's "Holy Fire"re-thematizes the cyberpunk trauma of man-machine fusion.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2006
- Issue No: 12
- Page Range: 55-64
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English