It’s been a long time since my first adolescent reading of Nova. I remember being utterly seduced by the sensory detail and complexity of its star-faring future. With his path breaking exploration of queer identity this suffices to make him one of the most important (and underrated) political writers of our time. Delany thus re-engineers theories about the way language mediates thought current in Critical Theory and Poststructuralism and bodies them in an alien flesh we can regard as our own. Reading Stars helps you think of gender as a mutable cultural virus rather than as destiny or “nature”. ‘He’ is reserved for any human/alien object of sexual desire. In this post-gender world everyone is ‘she’ or ‘a woman’ regardless of sex.
In Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sandhe portrays an interstellar civilization in which gender is differently coded from ours by shifting the functions of the masculine and feminine pronouns.
In the ‘Star Pit’ you feel his narrator’s dejection at being confined within a mere galaxy – a galaxy!īut Delaney has also retooled SF to explore identity, language and social ontology. On the one hand he’s an extraordinarily sensual writer. Samuel Delany’s writing has always fascinated me. Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group.Accelerationism Aesthetics AI Aliens Antonin Artaud art autopoiesis badiou Ballard Bataille Bellmer biohacking Brandom Brassier BSG cinema cognitive science Computation critical posthumanism Cronenberg Cyborg Davidson deconstruction deicide DeLanda Deleuze Dennett Derrida disconnection ecology Eliminativism Erotic Ethics gary j shipley Harman Horror humanism human nature inferentialism inhumanism Laruelle] Marxism Materialism metaphysics Music Naturalism neuroscience Nick Land noise non-philosophy nonsense Object-Oriented Ontology OceanTerminus Ontology phenomenology philosophy poetry politics posthumanism Posthuman Life Realism reza negarestani Science Fiction Sellars singularity Sound Speculative Realism Structuralism Technology Theology the technological sublime Transcendental Materialism transhumanism weird writing Search for: Follow enemyindustry on art-performance
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