Posthuman Bodies in the MakingWoman and Technology in The Girl Who Was Plugged In

أورنيد سمية; شعال هوارية

Article Details

Posthuman Bodies in the MakingWoman and Technology in The Girl Who Was Plugged In

Authors:

أورنيد سمية | شعال هوارية

Publisher:

Université Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed Oran

Journal:

ALTRALANG Journal Vol.6 Issue 1, pp.416-427

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

6/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001540574

pISSN:

2710-8619

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Abstract:

 It has long been thought of ‘a world governed by technology’ as part of an unreached future. 
Nevertheless, the current reality is, in many aspects, a manifestation of what the works of science fiction 
once foresaw. The rapprochement between the content of this genre and its reification begs the question of 
survival, or rather, the shape of survival in a technological world. Hence, this article is an endeavor to 
reflect the influence of technology demonstrated in James Tiptree Jr.’s The Girl Who Was Plugged In 
(1973) on reality. To reach this end, the novella is regarded from a posthumanist prism with the aim of 
speculating the meaning and the making of the female mind and body in the Age of Machine. The paper 
also evokes aspects from the feminist and Marxist schools in relating facts with fiction to reflect upon the 
speculative dimension of the science fiction genre insofar as the schools provide a profound insight into
the realistic social features that can be found in literary texts. The textual analysis reveals that technology 
feeds humans’ superficiality towards the female consciousness and physique, which is manifested in areas 
related to beauty standards, consumption, and love, and interferes with redefining the human by detaching 
the mind from the body.

Article Details

Posthuman Bodies in the MakingWoman and Technology in The Girl Who Was Plugged In

Authors:

أورنيد سمية | شعال هوارية

Publisher:

Université Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed Oran

Journal:

ALTRALANG Journal Vol.6 Issue 1, pp.416-427

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

6/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001540574

pISSN:

2710-8619

Artificial feelings

consciousness

female body

posthumanism

technology

Issues

Article Details

Posthuman Bodies in the MakingWoman and Technology in The Girl Who Was Plugged In

Authors: أورنيد سمية | شعال هوارية

Publisher: Université Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed Oran

Journal: ALTRALANG Journal Vol.6 Issue 1, pp.416-427

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 6/2024

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001540574

pISSN: 2710-8619

Artificial feelings

consciousness

female body

posthumanism

technology

Issues

Authors:

أورنيد سمية | شعال هوارية

Publisher:

Université Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed Oran

Journal:

ALTRALANG Journal Vol.6 Issue 1, pp.416-427

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

6/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001540574

pISSN:

2710-8619