NASA/TREK by Constance Penley

NASA/TREK by Constance Penley

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.

Going into space with NASA/TREK is a good read and a good ride into uncharted regions of technocultureIn 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

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.

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ISBN 13	9780860916178
ISBN 10	0860916170
Title	NASA/TREK
Author	Constance Penley
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Verso Books
Year published	1997-06-17
Number of pages	184
Prizes	Winner of Firecracker Alternative Book Award (Special Recognition) 1998
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