«Женщина-другой» как основание для постгуманистического субъекта в современном фантастическом кино

Abstract

Today, in the era of the irreversible influence of digital technology and the Internet on people, there is a growing need to find approaches that describe the principles of constructing the new subjectivity. Posthumanism pays special attention to the development of these approaches. Popular cinema, with its deployed representations of plots and sensitive reaction to cultural trends, successfully constructs such subjectivity by making women the main characters more and more often. The study analyzes on what grounds a female protagonist of contemporary fantastic films, integrated in the new types of communication, acts as an actual posthumanist subject. The term woman Other refers to a woman as a structural Other subject of patriarchal culture, whose otherness and forced marginal position is defined by her belonging to the female gender. The focus on this figure in the study is explained by the fact that posthumanism acknowledges the influence of post-feminist theory on the understanding of the principles of constructing a new subject in modern culture. By rearticulating the function of a woman as Other in Donna Haraway’s concept of a cyborg, we can solve issues inaccessible to earlier poststructuralist feminism and critical Marxism, which, due to their specificity, overlook the problems of preserving subjectivity itself. Earlier posthumanism is overcome by a shift of attention from the growing role of information to the construction of subjectivity within various communication relationships. Philosophical feminism of the late 20th and early 21st century, with its traditional criticism of the subject in the context of poststructuralist foundations, proves necessary for the construction of an actual posthumanistic subject in science fiction films.