La ciencia-realista

el género de ciencia ficción como novela realista del siglo XXI

Abstract

The concept of realist literature is understood by Hernán Vanoli based on the hypothesis presented in El amor por la literatura en tiempos de algoritmos (2019): science fiction is shown as the new realist literature. Departing from this hypothesis, the present article proposes, on the one hand, to problematize and suggest new definitions by studying similarities and contrasts regarding 20th and 21st-century science fiction and, on the other hand, to perform a critical study of Martín Castagnet’s novel Los cuerpos del verano (2016) as the axis of analysis of postmodern science fiction. To serve this purpose, we will rely upon the theory of human acceleration and augmented humanity to rethink the connection between literature and a reality deeply penetrated by technology. Eric Sadin’s La humanidad aumentada: la administración digital del mundo (2018) and Rosa Hartmut’s Aceleración social: consecuencias éticas y políticas de una sociedad de alta velocidad desincronizada (2011) will be highly productive in this matter.