Morality and Amorality in Ba(udri)llard's Crash: A Poetic Perspective.
This article revisits a well-known discussion about morality in J.G. Ballard's Crash that surrounded the appearance of Jean Baudrillard's essay of the same name in a special section of SFS (Nov. 1991). In this debate, N. Katherine Hayles and Vivian Sobchack strongly oppose Baudrillard's claim that t...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 47 - 73 |
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