Carolyn Lau

Bio

Carolyn Lau teaches and researches on science fiction literature and film, graphic narratives, and posthumanism at the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her first monograph, Posthuman Myths in the Novels of J.G. Ballard, will be published by Routledge in 2022.

Contributions

Kathy Acker: A Late Modernist

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Living and writing in Reaganite America, Kathy Acker’s fiction is a sustained interrogation of the feasibility of classical revolutions in neoliberal late capitalism. This reading of Empire of the Senseless (1988) traces some of the overlooked affinities between Acker’s “punk feminism” and the feminist strand of futurism that challenges the Italian futurists’ anarchic and imperialist vision of technotopias. [1] Instead of passively accepting subjugation by a programmatic utopia that promises...

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science fiction late modernism