Overview
- Analyses The Matrix franchise, exploring real-world issues of disability, transness, cyborgs, and ethics
- Offers a groundbreaking look at the whole Matrix franchise, focusing on real-world issues
- Revisit your favorite Matrix characters with new eyes in this original, fresh analysis of the Wachowskis’ franchise
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender (PSRG)
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Keywords
- The Matrix franchise
- Lana Wachowski
- Lilly Wachowski
- cyborg
- trans
- identity
- digital age
- gender
- technology
About this book
The Matrix (Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski 1999) has permeated our cultural consciousness for two decades, working its way into such common parlance as “a glitch in the Matrix,” and the idea of taking the Red Pill. With the release of the fourth movie, The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski 2021), and the confirmation of the franchise being a metaphor for gender transition, this book examines how the entire franchise contributes to the discourse on sex and gender, and how it has been instrumental in propelling the creation of new types of cyborg technology. This book centers on the main philosophical theme of The Matrix, know thyself, and relate it to the quest for authenticity which creates our identities—be they human, or human “enough”—as we move through the world.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Rebecca Gibson is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University, specializing in biological anthropology. Her published works include Desire in the Age of Robots and AI: An Investigation in Science Fiction and Fact (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and The Corseted Skeleton: A Bioarchaeology of Binding (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cyborgs, Ethics, and The Matrix
Book Subtitle: Simulations of Sex and Gender
Authors: Rebecca Gibson
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-61009-7Due: 08 October 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-61012-7Due: 08 October 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-61010-3Due: 08 October 2024
Series ISSN: 2662-9364
Series E-ISSN: 2662-9372
Edition Number: 1