Revista de estudios norteamericanos - 2025 - Nº 29

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They Will Replace U.S.: AI and the Hallucinations of Corporations
(Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2025-12-11) Hardack, Richard
I address AI as a manifestation of the corporate form in U.S.culture, and as it relates to the dreams of (or ascribed to) fascism and corporations. The merger of state and corporate power represents the trajectory of the corporation—to take over the state; elide accountability, empathy, transparency and (human) agency; and trade places with (and finally eliminate) people. The merger of state and corporate AI—a final stage of corporate speech, networking, and legalontology—facilitates the takeover of human personhoodby corporate personhood, and I trace the effects of that process in the systemic inversion of norms. Corporate personhood is part of a zero-sum game in which rights, speech, and identities are appropriated from people. When AI technology is grafted onto political systems and social media, the ensuing hallucinations are nightmares.The corporation always has been a posthuman simulacrum of persons, and its AI, in its wake, dreams of eliminating workers and people altogether.
"Hope to do some good, no matter how fucked up you are": Ecoterrorism, Traumaand Ecological Affect inThe Ministry for the Future
(Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2025-12-11) García Soria, Laura
As climate change becomes increasingly evident, public awareness has grown and mobilized into the environmental movement. Familiar concepts like global warming, ocean acidification, and mass extinction shape a charged emotional landscapewhere love for nature coexists with fear and despair. This tension contributes to the rise of radical environmental activism, driven by disillusionment with ineffective policies and deep ecology’s biocentric philosophy. At its extreme, environmental direct action can culminate in ecoterrorism, defined as environmentally motivated violence or threats aimed at symbolic targets. The emotional balance underpinning environmentalism is increasingly unstable, shaped by eco-anxiety and climate trauma. This paper explores ecological affect through an ecocritical reading of the depiction of ecoterrorism in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future,examining how climate trauma fuels radical responses and how such responses are portrayed, problematized, or legitimized in fiction.
Transgressing the Code of Desire: Queering the Posthuman in Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous
(Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2025-12-11) Larrodera Arcega, Laura
The cyborg, a being that merges the technological with the biological, is frequently used as a conceptual tool to dismantle binaries and explore the nature-culture continuum. However, SF representations of cyborgs tend to be anthropocentric. Annalee Newitz’s novel Autonomous(2017) problematizesthis figure by refusing to call its hybrids as such, nuancing theirutopianaspects. This article examines gender and sexuality in the novel in relation to biobotsand their relation to trans and nonbinary identities. It explores how its queer and inhuman characters disrupt the heteronormative code where they are inscribed. Relying on Luciano and Chen’s (2014) concept of the inhuman and on Braidotti’s (2013) posthuman relational subject, this article envisions two types of desire transgressions. The first transgression istranshumanist, based on biohacking. The second one iscritical posthumanist,based on queer epistemological hacking through bodily interactions andconfrontations, a metaphorical biohacking of the narrative code that intersects our DNA.
Postcolonial Fears and Post-Apocalyptic Imagery in Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
(Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2025-12-11) Rincón Ramos, Stephanie
Fantasies of (post-)apocalypse are both a product and a producer of the Anthropocene, reproducing the concerns and fears that populate our unconscious imaginary, while providing us with unrealistic and inefficient solutions to currentcrises. Nevertheless, apocalyptic films canpromptus to yearn for something different, conceivingthe disaster not as an ending, but as the beginning of a new world. The aim of this paper is to examine theseries Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeastsfrom a postcolonial perspective claiming its initial premise reflects current western fears of reverse invasion and colonization. Through the inversion of human/animal hierarchies, this series interrogatesthe legacies of colonialism within our Anthropocene present. However, unlike other post-apocalyptic narratives, Kipo addresses these fears through restorative frameworksof hybridization and more-than-human relationality to create a post-anthropocentric society that embraces change and becoming as their core values.
Care Technologies as a Relational Practice in Alexander Weinstein’s “Saying Goodbye to Yang” and Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Walta’s Sentient
(Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2025-12-12) Kiczkowski, Adriana
Through an analysis of the short story “Saying Goodbye to Yang” by the American writer Alexander Weinstein and the comic Sentientby the Canadian writer Jeff Lemire and the Spanish cartoonist Gabriel Walta—both of which depict the construction of care via technology in a context of profound technosocial transformation of the human—this paper examines the delegation of affective and educational functions to artificial intelligences designed or adapted to replace parental figures. In doing so, it exposes the ethical, political, and ontological tensions inherent in a world where the boundaries between humans and technological devices are increasingly blurred. Drawing on feminist and technopolitical theoretical frameworks, the analysis explores the implications of outsourcing care to artificial systems that reproduce or challenge hierarchies of gender, race, and class, and reflects on the possibilities for agency, autonomy, and reciprocity in relationships mediated by technology.
The Rise of a New Lilith: The Posthuman Monstrous Mother of Demonsin Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis (Lilith’s Brood)
(Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2025-12-11) Berganzo Besga, Naiara
Oftentimes, women writers turn to science fiction—and other forms of speculative fiction—as a means to retrieve and reclaim old female figures from patriarchal foundational myths and reproduce them in a different fashion. That is to say, they choose to question old sexist and stereotypical female images by introducing a more human and feministapproach to the characters, far from the already familiar and stale gender roles.This is exactly what Butler provides with her trilogy. Xenogenesis, also known as Lilith’s Brood, is an Afrofuturistic and postapocalyptic science fiction trilogy that was written by Octavia E. Butler in the late 1980s. As we will attempt to demonstrate, in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust, focusing on the continuity of the human race, by means of the creation of a new Human-Oankali hybrid species mothered by the Afro-American protagonist Lilith Iyapo, Xenogenesis partakes in the posthuman retelling and challenging of the patriarchal birth myth of the Genesis. In order to do that, drawing from Gothic, ecofeminist, and posthuman theories, we will be exploring how a monstrous posthuman ecofeminist agent can be created.
Black Utopia and Body Agency in Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts
(Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2025-11-25) Calvo-Pascual, Mónica
After situating Rivers Solomon’s debut novel An Unkindness of Ghosts(2017) as a Black utopia following Zamalin’s definition of the genre, this essay will explore the textfrom the intra-acting lenses of black antihumanism, critical posthumanism, and queer kinship. I contend that Solomon’s novel surpasses the notions of Afrofuturism and (white) critical posthumanism alike through its portrayal of the main characters’ genderand sexual non-conformity and the radical kinship bonds they develop among themselves and with the nonhuman in the protagonist’s case. Furthermore, by the characters’ willful control and agency over their own bodies and the future possibilities envisioned in its open ending, Solomon’s textsubverts and explodes the Western, Enlightenment, colonial construction of white (civilized) subjecthood as opposed to the animalization of the blackbodyand the universalist, exceptionalist logic of state-sanctioned brutality inflicted on African Americans since Antebellum times.
Critical perspectives on the alredy posthuman world
(Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2025) Chapman, Ana; Peinado Abarrio, Rubén
Human-eyed dolphins: Humanist noghtmares and posthumanist ecosystems in jeff vandermeer's southern reach tetralogy
(Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2025-11-24) Fernández Menicucci, Amaya
Ten years after the release of The Southern Reachtrilogy, Jeff VanderMeer returns to the enigmatic realm of Area X with a fourth novel, Absolution (2024). This paper examines how the tetralogy’s engagement with the posthuman continuum challenges traditional definitions of the human-non-human dichotomy. Drawing uponphilosophical posthumanism as theorized by Rosi Braidotti, I argue that the novels in question not only resist conventional definitions of ecological disaster, but also redefine the concepts of existential continuityand agency in a posthuman context.In TheSouthern Reachnovels, the portrayal of posthuman entities reflects a deliberate deconstruction of oppositional identity configurations. VanderMeer achieves this through two primary mechanisms: on the one hand, the transference of traditionally abhuman attributes from non-human animals and alien entities to the human focalizers, and, on the other hand, the presentation of posthuman beings as desirable ontological possibilities.
Review of Espejo, Ramón. The catalonian journey of American Drama (1909-2000) from Jimmy Valentine to The Vagina Monologues. Legenda, 2024. 305PP
(Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2025-12-04) Hernando-Real, Noelia
Review of Beatriz Jiménez Villanueva. La descolonización de la sexualidad en tres autores chicanos. Alcalá de Henares: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alcalá, Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, 2024.
(Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2025-02-14) Gómez-Galisteo, Carmen;
Review of West, III, James L.W. Business is good: F. Scott Fitzgerarld, professional, writer. Pennsylvania State UP, 2024. 188 PP
(Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2025-05-20) Guijarro González, Juan Ignacio; Filología Inglesa (Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana); HUM201: James Joyce: Evolución Narrativa y Sus Repercusiones
"A desert deserted": Hydrofictional relationality in Claire Vaye Watkins' Gold Fame Citrus (2015)
(Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2025-04-24) Ruthven, Andrea; Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICIU). España; European Commission (EC). Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)
This paper considersclimate fictions as narratives that interrogate thepresent by analysing Claire Vaye Watkins’ 2015 novel Gold Fame Citrus.It proposes to read the novel as an example of hydrofiction, a subgenre of climate fictions, to argue thatWatkins’s work critiques discourses that frame water as nothing more than a resource to be yoked to anthropocentric desires. Itcontendsthat climate fiction, and hydrofiction in particular, is uniquely situated to interrogate how therejection of relationality, in particular the(lack of) engagement with water as an agential being, can be read in conjunction with the environmental (and other crises) epitomised by the desiccatedlandscape in the novel, as represented by the agentic potential of the newly-formed desert.
Mr. Yamada and the cost of a new masculinity in John Okada's No-No Boy
(Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2025-07-16) Hernaiz-Martínez, Yolanda; Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICIU). España; European Commission (EC). Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER); European Commission. Fondo Social Europeo (FSO)
During the Second World War and its aftermath,the U.S. government implemented racist policies that forced one hundred thousand Japanese and Japanese Americans into detention camps. A decade later,John Okada wrote No-No Boy(1957),about the traumatic experience of the camps and the stress of adjusting to American society in the following years.This paper aims to examineOkada’s description of the internalization of racismand the effects of emasculation on male racialized migrants. The analysis exploresthe reinforcement and contesting of nationalistic attempts at remasculinization and the timid endeavor, in the figure of Mr. Yamada, to create a new masculinity away fromthe masculine and patriarchaldyad. In the context of the heteronormative conservative society of the 1950s, the Issei father finds a way out of emasculation through care and communication, which contrasts with a rejection of the maternal figure, thatis sacrificed in this new masculinity.

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