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Technophobia and the Cyborg Menace: Buffy Summers as Neo-Human Avatar
Ist Teil von
Journal of the fantastic in the arts, 2008-09, Vol.19 (3 (74)), p.349-362
Ort / Verlag
Pocatello: International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
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Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
During the 1990s, American paranoia shifted from global threats to governmental conspiracies and new technologies. This climate produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a television program that repeatedly cast the government as an irresponsible, militaristic threat. Buffy Summers, a technologically inept girl with supernatural powers, illustrated the need for fin-de-siècle Americans to confront the hazards of science by re-embracing spiritualism. In season 4, Buffy takes a break from vampires to combat the military machine of the United States. Efforts to create a "super soldier" from human, demon, and machine parts spawn Adam, a calculating cyborg who embodies one side of a reductive dichotomy. Adam represents the potential evils of science, while Buffy embodies the virtues of new-age humanity. Buffy's ideology functions as a didactic warning against over-reliance on technology and a call to return to nature, self-reliance, and human spiritualism.