Cyborg Worlds: queer hybridities and Haraway in 21st century science

机器人世界：21 世纪科学中的酷儿杂种和哈拉维

• 批准号: 2284247
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Surrey
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2284247
• 关键词: Cyborg; Worlds; queer; hybridities; Haraway

The focus of the project will be an examination of 21st century science fiction and the critical engagement between SF and culture, identity and technology. In A Cyborg Manifesto (1991), Donna Haraway said that "a cyborg world might be about lived social and bodily realities in which people are not afraid of their joint kinship with animals and machines, not afraid of permanently partial identities and contradictory standpoints." (Haraway 1991; 154). Reading from a Harawayan perspective, to what extent does 21st century science fiction represent the 'cyborg worlds' she envisioned in the late 20th century and to what extent is 'the cyborg' still a relevant image to 21st century writers? This will be answered by examining the sympoiesis between animal/human/technology and the potential within non/human or otherwise hybrid embodiments for critical engagement with gender, race and sexuality. This will include a postcolonial, ecological and transgender reading of Tentacle by Rita Indiana and an exploration of black identity, intersex identity and prosthesis in An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon. This research seeks to support the argument that queer and colonial voices have been said to embrace the non/human or monstrous as a way of writing embodiment and identity outside of white, patriarchal and heteronormative modes where categories of humanity are often denied. My primary engagements will be with inhuman theory, monster theory and critical posthumanism (Braidotti, Haraway, Lykke, McCormack, Shildrick) alongside queer theory, transgender theory, feminism and postcolonial theory.

该项目的重点将是对21世纪科幻小说的审查，以及科幻与文化、身份和技术之间的关键接触。在1991年出版的《机器人宣言》中，唐娜·哈拉韦说：“一个机器人世界可能是一个真实的社会现实和身体现实，在这个世界里，人们不怕与动物和机器的共同血缘关系，不怕永久的局部身份认同和相互矛盾的立场。”(Haraway，1991；154)。从哈拉瓦扬人的角度来看，21世纪的科幻小说在多大程度上代表了她在20世纪末设想的“半机械人世界”，在多大程度上，“半机械人”仍然是21世纪作家的相关形象？这将通过研究动物/人类/技术之间的共生以及非/人类或其他混合化身中与性别、种族和性行为的批判性接触的潜力来回答。这将包括丽塔·印第安纳对《触角》的后殖民、生态和变性人阅读，以及里弗斯·所罗门的《幽灵的无情》中对黑人身份、双性人身份和假肢的探索。这项研究试图支持这样的论点，即酷儿和殖民地的声音被认为接受了非人类或怪物，作为一种书写白人、父权制和异性恋者模式之外的化身和身份的方式，在这些模式中，人性的类别经常被否定。除了酷儿理论、变性人理论、女权主义和后殖民理论外，我的主要研究方向将是非人理论、怪兽理论和批判性的死后理论(布雷多蒂、哈拉韦、莱克、麦科马克、希尔德里克)。