Posthuman Identity Crisis

Gordon, Andrew. "Posthuman Identity Crisis." ''SFS]] #61 = 20.3 (Nov. 1992): 444-48.

Largely an enthusiastic rev. of Scott Bukatman's Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction (1993). GA focuses on the invisibility of contemporary electronic technology and its impact on society—the invisibility making it "increasingly difficulty to separate the human from the technological." Bukatman examines both written and filmed SF, connecting both to significant theoretical concerns raised by postmodern philosophers and literary theorists. The key function of S.F. is "to narrate the new subject of virtual identity." As of early 2004 on the WWW at http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/review_essays/gord61.htm. (RDE, 27/04/95)