science fiction
Review of Karin Hoepker’s No Maps for These Territories: Cities, Spaces, and Archeologies of the Future in William Gibson
The good news in Alex Link's review is that Karin Hoepker's No Maps for These Territories begins the necessary work on spatiality in William Gibson's first two trilogies. Still, much remains to be done. Link points the way to a critically productive analysis built on Hoepker's opening moves.
Histories of the Future
Steve Shaviro reviews Tomorrow Now by Bruce Sterling, a book that (for an eminent cyberpunk novelist) is perhaps too sane and sensible.
I’ll be a postfeminist in a postpatriarchy, or, Can We Really Imagine Life after Feminism?
From origin stories to progressive science fiction, Lisa Yaszek studies the changing face of feminsim.
Joseph McElroy’s Cyborg Plus
Salvatore Proietti straddles science and fiction to offer an interpretation of a McElroy Cyborg.
Lost and Long-Term Television Narrative
David Lavery ponders the "neo-baroque" tap-dancing of TV's most playful and commercially successful serial drama.