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NASA/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America

NASA/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America

by Constance Penley (Author)

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Synopsis

This wry and highly readable investigation of the role of space travel in popular imagination looks at the way NASA has openly borrowed from the TV show Star Trek to reinforce its public standing. It also celebrates the work of a group of the show's fans who rewrite its story-lines in porno-romance fanzines. Constance Penley advocates that scientific experimentation, and devoted to exploring inner as well as outer space.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 184
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 17 Jun 1997
ISBN 10: 0860916170
ISBN 13: 9780860916178

Media Reviews
Going into space with NASA/TREK is a good read and a good ride into uncharted regions of technoculture. In Pentley's hands, popular science is a place to launch an inquiry into moral cultural and political stakes in a world 'where no man has gone before'. - Donna Haraway NASA/TREK is happily both enjoyable and insightful, and explores some intricate correspondences between science and sex. Among other things it offers a new a persuasive analysis of a populist subgenre: 'slash' fiction . - Samuel R. Delany
Author Bio
Constance Penley is Professor of Film Studies and Women's Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is a founding editor of Camera Obscura. She is author of The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis, the editor of Feminism and Film Theory and the co-editor of Technoculture, Male Trouble and the forthcoming The Visible Woman: Imagining Technologies, Science and Gender.