Nasa/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America

Constance Penley

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Winner:Firecracker Alternative Book Award -Special Recognition (1998)

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 storylines in porno-romance fanzines. Constance Penley advocates that scientific experimentation be accompanied by social and sexual experimentation, and devoted to exploring inner as well as outer space.

Book Details

Publisher: Verso
Publish Date: Jun 17th, 1997
Pages: 184
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.40in - 0.50in - 0.55lb
EAN: 9780860916178
Categories: • Popular Culture• Feminism & Feminist Theory• Philosophy & Social Aspects

About the Author

Constance Penley is Professor of Film and Media Studies and Co-Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a founding editor of Camera Obscura and the author of The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis.

Praise for this book

"Going into space with NASA/TREK is a good read and a good ride into uncharted regions of technoculture. In Penley'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 and persuasive analysis of a populist subgenre: 'slash' fiction."--Samuel R. Delany