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Science Fiction Studies

Science Fiction Studies

#81 = Amount 27, Part 2 = 2000 july

The Fetishization of Masculinity in Science Fiction: The Cyborg as well as the Console Cowboy

One aspect that is significant of technofetishism could be the intensification of y our social lust for brand new technologies. We come across such “technolust” celebrated in Wired magazine’s regular “Fetish” spot; this covers a variety of new services from technical devices for instance the MindDrive—a sensor sleeve that slips onto the index little finger for the people game players whom tire of keeping a joystick—to brand new and much more manly means of eating ginseng. As Tim Barkow writes, “Brewing up tea as being a boon to your manhood simply too femme? Continue reading Science Fiction Studies