Vision, Technology, and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature

Stephen C. Tobin is an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He teaches literature and film classes on Latin American science fiction, posthumanism, speculative ecocriticism, and organized the 2022 symposium Surviving the Anthropocene: Speculative Fictions from Latin America’s Past, Present, and Futures. This is his first monograph.

“Tobin organizes his monograph both thematically and chronologically. … Vision, Technology, and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature is a sophisticated and valuable analysis suitable for graduate study and useful to scholars who are similarly focused upon these timely issues of technology, vision, subjectivity, and speculative literature.” (Michael Pitts, Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, Vol. 11 (1-2), 2024)

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Entering the Screen.- Chapter 2: “‘Where is my Eye?’ Gendered Cyborgs, the Male Gaze, and Lack in La primera calle de la soledad [The First Street of Solitude] and ‘Esferas de visión’ [‘Spheres of Vision’] by Gerardo Porcayo”.- Chapter 3: Televisual Subjectivities: Mediatic Ultraviolence and Disappearing Bodies in “Ruido gris” [“Gray Noise”] and Punto cero [Point Zero] by Pepe Rojo.- Chapter 4: Fake Presidents and Fake News: Holograms and Virtual Lenses in Eve Gil’s Virtus and Guillermo Lavín’s “Él piensa que algo no encaja” [“He Thinks Something is Off”].- Chapter 5: Conclusion: Specular Fictions in the Age of Embodied Internet