I could use a little help brainstorming. I'm currently working on an independent literary theory project at school, and my teacher is open-minded enough that he's perfectly happy to let it focus on science fiction. Therefore, I'm writing on how science fiction provides a unique perspective for analyzing the alienating effects of modern society. I'm using Lacan's psychoanalytic theory to analyze the interaction of corporations and alienated individuals in future societies. It's really more an exercise in using what's familiar to me to explicate complicated theory than an attempt to really delve into society's unconscious, but the science fiction certainly makes the literary theory considerably more palatable. Or, in simpler terms, I'm writing about how sci-fi deals with the damn scary idea of corporations in the future.
That being said, my main sources are Blade Runner, Gattaca, Ambient by Jack Womack, and The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth. I plan on also including references to the Terminator franchise, Avatar, Richard Morgan's novel Market Forces, possibly The Running Man (novel more than movie) or Soylent Green. I could really use more references - not necessarily because the paper needs them, but because I want to round out my mental conception of the ways in which corporations are depicted in science fiction. Ideally I'm looking for works that contain a more complex dynamic of interaction than just 'The corporation is evil and must be destroyed' such as the Umbrella Corp from Resident Evil. However, I know there are dozens of books and movies that involve future megacorporations, and I've probably read a great many of them but just can't remember them off the top of my head. So please, if anything springs to mind on the topic of corporation-influenced science fiction, let me know.
That being said, my main sources are Blade Runner, Gattaca, Ambient by Jack Womack, and The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth. I plan on also including references to the Terminator franchise, Avatar, Richard Morgan's novel Market Forces, possibly The Running Man (novel more than movie) or Soylent Green. I could really use more references - not necessarily because the paper needs them, but because I want to round out my mental conception of the ways in which corporations are depicted in science fiction. Ideally I'm looking for works that contain a more complex dynamic of interaction than just 'The corporation is evil and must be destroyed' such as the Umbrella Corp from Resident Evil. However, I know there are dozens of books and movies that involve future megacorporations, and I've probably read a great many of them but just can't remember them off the top of my head. So please, if anything springs to mind on the topic of corporation-influenced science fiction, let me know.
