Tag: cyborg

How does one write science fiction when the atom bomb (and later 9/11) makes the future seem impossible to predict? Justin Roby reviews Paul Youngquist's Cyberfiction: After the Future, which explores how postwar "cy-fi" critiqued life in the age of cybernetic control systems.

Salvatore Proietti straddles science and fiction to offer an interpretation of a McElroy Cyborg.

Praise for the body art of Camille Utterback, and commentary on controls.

N. Katherine Hayles discusses what happens when postmodern writers theorize in a void.

Linda Brigham reads How We Became Posthuman the way Katherine Hayles reads novels: as a story that resists both linearity and the analytical ardor of attempts at humanist ordering.

Bruce Clarke reviews the new translation of Grammophone, Film, Typewriter, a requiem and good-riddance for the era of so-called Man.