Social and Virtual Space: Science Fiction, Transnationalism, and the America New RightLaura Chernaik
About the Author:
Laura Chernaik is a free-lance writer in London. She was born in the United States and moved to Britain as a child. She has a BA in Philosophy from Bristol University and a PhD in History of Consciousness from the University of California Santa Cruz. She taught American Studies for ten years at Nottingham University. She has published articles in Letterature D’America, Renaissance and Modern Studies, Gender, Place and Culture, Feminist Review, Philologie im Netz, and Foundation. She is working on a novel, New Hope.
Social and Virtual Space is a material and semiotic study of transnationalism, analyzed in terms of race, class, gender, and sexuality. The objects of analysis range from the aftermath of the U.S.-led war in Iraz, to science fiction by Pat Cadigan, C.J. Cherryh, and Samuel Delany, to material-semiotic feminist theory by Donna Haraway, and to the neo-Marxist historical geography of Mike Davis and David Harvey. The book is centrally concerned with the social and cultural change brought about in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by the rise of the new social movements in the United States. Chernaik analyzes both the activists’ movement-based speeches and wrtitngs, and more academic work informed by the women’s movements and by the lesbian, gay, queer, and transgendered movements, showing how new forms of community enabled new ways of thought. She argues that the rise of the American new right, both the Christian right and the foreign policy-centered neo-conservatism, was a backlash against these historical changes. Ethical and political concerns are central to Chernaik’s argument, which is framed in terms of Emmanuel Levinas’s notion of radical, non-reciprocal responsibility.ISBN 0-8386-4069-9
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