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By Joanna Page

It has develop into whatever of a serious ordinary to assert that technology fiction doesn't truly exist in Argentina. This publication places that declare to relaxation by way of deciding on and interpreting a wealthy physique of labor that matches squarely within the style. Joanna web page explores quite a number texts stretching from 1875 to the current day and throughout numerous media-literature, cinema, theatre, and comics-and stories the actual inflection many universal discourses of technological know-how fiction (e.g., abuse of expertise through authoritarian regimes, apocalyptic visions of environmental disaster) obtain within the Argentine context. A principal goal is to historicize those texts, exhibiting how they sign up and remodel the contexts in their creation, relatively the hallmarks of modernity as a social and cultural strength in Argentina. one other target, held in rigidity with the 1st, is to answer an enormous critique of historicism that unfolds in those texts. they often unpick the chronology of modernity, difficult the linear, universalizing versions of improvement that underpin historicist bills. They accordingly call for a extra nuanced set of readings that paintings to complement, revise, and enhance the historicist perspective.

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