ID - 131919200 TI - Vision, Technology, and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature PY - 2023 SN - 9783031311567 9783031311550 9783031311574 9783031311581 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy and psychology of culture KW - Sociology of culture KW - Ethnology. Cultural anthropology KW - Fiction KW - Literature KW - History of Latin America KW - etnologie KW - cultuur KW - geschiedenis KW - literatuur KW - fantasie (verbeelding) KW - Caribbean area KW - Latin America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131919200 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 country's 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 country's field of vision during this period, the authors of these cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk narratives imagine how these devices contribute to producing specular subjects-or 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 expression-especially within the cyberpunk genre-that grapples with themes and issues regarding the nature of vision being increasingly mediated by technology. ER -