TALK
THURSDAY 30 JAN 2014, 19H
49 NORD 6 EST - FRAC LORRAINE - METZ (57)
Humankind beyond genders and genres? Queer and Science Fiction
Géraldine Gourbe, philosopher
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Part of Gender, sex & coconuts
Cycle 2013–14
Bunny Yeager & Bettie Page, Safari Park, Boca Raton, Floride (US), 1954. © DR
Using the salient figures of SF—from Frankenstein to the series Real Humans, by way of Metropolis—Géraldine Gourbe re-examines the origins of thought freed from the dictates of sexual assignment. Queer children born outside a biological matrix call for new forms of kinship that threaten the established order: Religion, State, and Family. Cloning, artificial uterus… when fiction helps to imagine reality.
Full Program Gender, Sex and Coconuts
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