Science fiction and technology: between desirable obsession and abhorrence

Science-fiction et technologie, entre obsession désirable et détestation

Sonia Adam-Ledunois (), Sébastien Damart () and Marie Roussie
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Sonia Adam-Ledunois: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Sébastien Damart: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Marie Roussie: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: If technology is a major theme in science fiction (SF), its treatment in movies is heterogeneous. Based on a comparative analysis of three artworks of science fiction, Star Trek, The Matrix and Black Mirror, the article proposes to build a continuum of analysis about the place and role of technology in works of science-fiction. At one end of the continuum, technology is a background that is not the subject of debate, but which, eventually, is a framework that facilitates a debate on a societal issue. At another extreme, technology is threatening and consubstantially opens the door to post-humanism. Between the two extremes, SF provides a critique of the perverse and cynical uses that our societies make of new technologies.

Keywords: Science-fiction; technologie; dystopie; hard SF; exofiction; cyberpunk; Star Trek; The Matrix; Black Mirror (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-03
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Published in Technologie et Innovations, 2024, 24 (9), ⟨10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1130⟩

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DOI: 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1130

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