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

该项目的重点将是对21世纪世纪科幻小说和科幻与文化，身份和技术之间的关键参与的审查。唐娜·哈拉维（Donna Haraway）在《半机械人宣言》（A Cyborg Manifesto）中说：“半机械人的世界可能是关于生活的社会和身体现实，在这个世界里，人们不害怕他们与动物和机器的共同亲属关系，不害怕永久的部分身份和矛盾的立场。（Haraway 1991; 154）。从哈拉瓦人的角度阅读，21世纪科幻小说在多大程度上代表了她在20世纪后期设想的“电子人世界”，“电子人”在多大程度上仍然是21世纪作家的相关形象？这将通过检查动物/人类/技术之间的共生关系以及非人类或其他混合体与性别，种族和性的关键参与之间的潜力来回答。这将包括一个后殖民，生态和变性阅读的触角丽塔印第安纳州和黑人身份的探索，双性身份和假肢在一个无情的鬼河流所罗门。这项研究旨在支持这样一种论点，即酷儿和殖民地的声音据说拥抱非人类或怪物，作为一种书写白色、父权制和异性恋规范模式之外的体现和身份的方式，在这些模式中，人类的类别往往被否认。我的主要参与将与非人理论，怪物理论和批判后人类主义（Braidotti，Haraway，Lykke，McCormack，Shildrick）以及酷儿理论，跨性别理论，女权主义和后殖民理论。

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.