Of death (and birth) of universes: gender and science in Pamela Zoline´s “The Heat Death of the Universe”
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Estudos de gênero, Ciência, Ficção CientíficaResumo
Este artigo aborda questões recentemente debatidas no âmbito da crítica informada pelos Estudos de Gênero sobre utopias, distopias e ficção científica (FC) de autoria feminina, e responde a algumas destas questões, mais especificamente em relação “à necessidade de se produzir trabalhos na contemporaneidade ligando a ficção científica feminista e as teorias científicas; e ao potencial em termos de sinergia crítica evocada ao situarmos a ficção científica feminista como uma forma criativa de estudo da ciência” (MERRICK, 2007). Para isso, apresentamos uma leitura de “The Heat Death of the Universe”, de Pamela Zoline (1967), um conto clássico da FC de autoria feminina. Privilegiando uma “atitude etnográfica” (HARAWAY, 2003), observamos as formas pelas quais o conto incorpora criativamente práticas e discursos científicos em sua elaborada composição ao expandir os significados do conceito central que reelabora: entropia. Recorrendo a leituras anteriores do texto de Zoline, argumentamos que a justaposição entre ficção/ciência construída pela narrativa ativa, expande e relativiza formas de pensamento sobre a morte (e o nascimento) de universos por salientar a dinâmica entre forças e perspectivas físicas, biológicas, sociais, psicológicas e filosóficas. Para tal, a tensão central entre sistemas ordenados e desordenados, informada pela entropia, é mantida no decorrer da história com a utilização de estratégias narrativas que agem para tal suspensão. Finalmente, refletimos sobre esta obra de fição em relação aos paradigmas científicos por ela imaginados, e sobre suas funções na formação de percepções de gênero, observando particularmente as políticas, tensões, efeitos e implicações em jogo.
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