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- Title
Biocapitalism and Schizophrenia: Rethinking the Frankenstein Barrier.
- Authors
McQueen, Sean
- Abstract
Deleuze and Guattari's becomings-animal are particularly useful in rethinking George Slusser's "Frankenstein barrier": the point at which the sf story folds back upon itself through the denial of futurity, which is accompanied by a regression into Oedipal relations. By analyzing and contrasting Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Vincenzo Natali's Splice, this essay argues that while the denial of futurity is Victor Frankenstein's as much as the monster's, the barrier is nevertheless an anthropocentric one. The essay examines the possibilities opened up by the becoming-animal of the nonhuman, and explores how this reworks the Frankenstein barrier in twenty-first century technoscientific biocapitalism.
- Subjects
POSTHUMANISM; OEDIPUS complex in literature; FRANKENSTEIN: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Book); SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851; SPLICE (Film); NATALI, Vincenzo; PROMETHEUS (Greek deity) in literature
- Publication
Science Fiction Studies, 2014, Vol 41, Issue 1, p120
- ISSN
0091-7729
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.5621/sciefictstud.41.1.0120