Tag Archives: Detournement

Damien Broderick, Transrealist Fiction

By Steen | June 8, 2006

Broderick’s book investigates a new kind of writing first coined by Rudy Rucker to be ‘transrealism’. Rucker’s term was meant to save [science fiction] from itself, by adding a certain degree of literary quality and real-world connection to it. His manifesto was written in 1983 and he was soon gobbled up by the cyberpunks, yet [...]

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Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style

By Steen | May 3, 2006

Hebdige’s classic work on subculture shows us much about how those commonly referred to as the dominated, do in fact resist this domination in complex ways.

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Cyborgs and Posthumans: The Slipstream of Theory

By Steen | October 10, 2005

In this chapter, I will examine a change which has occurred in cultural theory within these last twenty or so years; metaphors and concepts from the science fiction genre (sf) has to an increasing extent turned up in order to express occurrences in contemporary culture. Generally, these concepts are used to turn events into facts, [...]

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Michael Cunningham, Specimen Days

By Steen | October 9, 2005

Michael Cunningham’s fourth novel, Specimen Days follows in the vein of The Hours in having a very specific and concrete connection to another author’s work. In this case it is Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass in particular, though the title of Cunningham’s novel comes from another Whitman work of the same name. Cunningham’s [...]

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Dominant culture and sf

By Steen | September 8, 2005

If we argue that the Imaginary of dominant culture is always a combination and culmination of appropriated forms and plagiarizings (Halberstam & Livingston, Posthuman Bodies), in other words a form of cultural and social recuperation (Hebdige, The Meaning of Style), then we begin to get an idea of the process of cultural dissemination and the [...]

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