Ken MacLeod’s Intrusion, or a Transmodern Approach to the Near Future

• Autores: Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen
• Localización: Taking stock to look ahead: celebrating forty years of English studies in Spain / coord. por María Ferrández San Miguel, Claus Peter Neumann, 2018, ISBN 978-84-16723-51-5, págs. 33-38
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The aim of this paper is to understand how a transmodern approach to a 21st-century British novel set in the near future will open it up for new meanings that exceed the more conventional or traditional readings of “hard” science fiction. The theoretical framework to be used in the close reading of the chosen text—Ken MacLeod’s Intrusion (2012)—will be related to the concept of “Transmodernism,” as used by Rosa Maria Rodríguez Magda (2011). As this paper will show, in Intrusion, the rights of the individuals are balanced against that of the community in various and contradicting ways that both question and confirm the benefits and or the harm of corporatist philosophy. In short, the world depicted in MacLeod’s Intrusion refigures the warnings of the literary dystopia as part of the system to guard against.1