Social and Virtual Space: Science Fiction, Transnationalism, and the American New Right

Social and Virtual Space: Science Fiction, Transnationalism, and the American New Right
ISBN-10
0838640699
ISBN-13
9780838640692
Category
Social Science
Pages
208
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Author
Laura Chernaik

Description

This volume is a material and semiotic study of transnationalsim, analyzed in terms of race, class, gender, and sexuality. The objects of analysis range from the aftermath of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, to science fiction by Pat Cadigan, CJ Cherryh, and Samuel Delaney, to material-semiotic feminist theory by Donna Harraway, to the neo-Marxist historical geography of Mike Davis and David Harvey. The book is centrally concerned with the social and cultural change brought about by the rise of the new social movements in the United States, such as the women's movement and the lesbian, gay, queer, and transgendered movements, and the backlash by the American new right against this change. Ethical and political concerns are central to the arguments, which is framed in terms of Emmanuel Levinas's notion of radical, non-reciprocal responsibility. Laura Chernaik is a free-lance writer.

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