Woman Other as a Ground for Posthuman Subjectivity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema
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Today, in the era of irreversible influence digital technology and Internet on people, there is a growing need to find approaches that describe principles constructing new subjectivity. Posthumanism pays special attention development these approaches. Popular cinema, with its deployed representations plots sensitive reaction cultural trends, successfully constructs such subjectivity by making women main characters more often. The study analyzes what grounds female protagonist contemporary fantastic films, integrated types communication, acts as an actual posthumanist subject. term woman Other refers structural subject patriarchal culture, whose otherness forced marginal position defined her belonging gender. focus this figure explained fact posthumanism acknowledges post-feminist theory understanding modern culture. By rearticulating function Donna Haraway’s concept cyborg, we can solve issues inaccessible earlier poststructuralist feminism critical Marxism, which, due their specificity, overlook problems preserving itself. Earlier overcome shift from role information construction within various communication relationships. Philosophical late 20th early 21st century, traditional criticism context foundations, proves necessary for posthumanistic science fiction films.
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عنوان ژورنال: Nauka televideniâ
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1994-9529', '2587-9782']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30628/1994-9529-2023-19.1-121-146