Technicity: AI and Cyborg Ethnicity in The Matrix

Particularly in its interrogation of race, species, gender, and identity, science fiction, whether in literature or media, serves to suggest and to help understand what it may mean to be post-human. Lavender would like to propose a new experiential framework by which to reconceptualize the study of...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inExtrapolation Vol. 45; no. 4; pp. 437 - 458
Main Author Lavender III, Isiah
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Brownsville Liverpool University Press 01.12.2004
University of Texas at Brownsville
Subjects
Ethnicity
Fiction
Motion pictures
Science fiction & fantasy
Self concept
Sobchack, Vivian
Technology
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Particularly in its interrogation of race, species, gender, and identity, science fiction, whether in literature or media, serves to suggest and to help understand what it may mean to be post-human. Lavender would like to propose a new experiential framework by which to reconceptualize the study of ethnicity in the post-human future-a technology-based ethnicity that her terms as technicity. One of the most provocative examples of this concept is The Matrix, a film that has been widely discussed in terms of almost everything but race.
ISSN:0014-5483
2047-7708
DOI:10.3828/extr.2004.45.4.9