An Apocalypse of Total Communication

 

This paper deals with fantasies of universal connexion and total communication which culminate in a hellish or utopian apotheosis. These are exemplified with Olaf Stapledon's novel Star Maker (1937) and the film The Matrix (1999), written and directed by the Wachowski brothers. The paper focuses on some reflexive aspects of these fictions and on their relationship with their cultural background.

  An Apocalypse of Total Communication:

Utopian and Dystopian Perspectives in Star Maker and The Matrix

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2104123 

 

 

To be found here:

_____. "An Apocalypse of Total Communication: Utopian and Dystopian Perspectives in Star Maker and The Matrix." Paper read at the conference "Memory, Desire and Imagination" (Universidad de Zaragoza, 2002). Online at Net Sight de José Angel García Landa, 2008. 2020.*

         http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/totalcommunication.html

         2010 DISCONTINUED 2020 Online at the Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181101084615/http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/totalcommunication.html

         2020

         https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/totalcommunication.html

         2020

_____. "An Apocalypse of Total Communication: Utopian and Dystopian Perspectives in Star Maker (1937) and The Matrix (1999)." In Memory, Imagination and Desire in Contemporary Anglo-American Literature and Film. Ed. Constanza del Río-Álvaro and Luis Miguel García-Mainar. (Anglistische Forschungen, 337). Heidelberg: Winter, 2004. 253-68.*

_____. "An Apocalypse of Total Communication." iPaper at Academia.edu 23 Sept. 2010.*

         https://www.academia.edu/336347/

         2015

_____. "An Apocalypse of Total Communication: Utopian and Dystopian Perspectives in Star Maker (1937) and The Matrix (1999)." Social  Science Research Network 12 July 2012.*

         http://ssrn.com/abstract=2104123

         2012

         English and Commonwealth Literature eJournal 12 July 2012.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Commonwealth-Lit.html

2012

Film, Media and TV Studies eJournal 22 Jan. 2020.*

https://www.ssrn.com/link/Film-Media-TV-Studies.html

2020

_____. "An Apocalypse of Total Communication: Utopian and Dystopian Perspectives in Star Maker (1937) and The Matrix (1999)." ResearchGate 21 Dec. 2013.*

         https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256023906

         2013

 

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