As mídias como extensões do corpo: duplos, próteses e descorporificação em Consumidos, de David Cronenberg

Gustavo Ramos de Souza

doi:10.5433/1678-2054.2023vol43n1p10

Media as extensions of the body: doppelgängers, prosthesis and disembodiment in Consumed, by David Cronenberg

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Gustavo Ramos de Souza Universidade Estadual de Londrina - UEL https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5164-420X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2023vol43n1p10

Keywords:

David Cronenberg, Consumed, Media as extensions

Abstract

Published in 2014, Consumed is the first novel by Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg. Throughout his body of work, which includes movies such as The Fly, Videodrome, Crash, and eXistenZ, Cronenberg explores recurring themes such as deviant sexualities, body horror, and the relationship between the organic and the machinic. He also questions what is real and how the media relates to human beings, recasting McLuhan’s theory that media are extensions of humanity. In Consumed, Cronenberg continues to explore these themes through the story of a couple of photojournalists addicted to technology who investigate a crime involving a cannibal philosopher and a doctor who performs clandestine cosmetic procedures. The novel features gadgets, STDs, 3D replicas, apotemnophilia, consumerism, and cannibalism, set in a world dominated by technical images. This paper aims to analyze the novel Consumed from a Media Studies perspective, using theoretical contributions from Marshall McLuhan, Friedrich Kittler, Erick Felinto, and Donna Haraway.

Author Biography

Gustavo Ramos de Souza, Universidade Estadual de Londrina - UEL

Doutor em Letras pela Universidade Estadual de Londrina

Professor colaborador da Universidade Estadual de Londrina

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2023-06-06

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Souza, Gustavo Ramos de. “Media As Extensions of the Body: Doppelgängers, Prosthesis and Disembodiment in Consumed, by David Cronenberg”. Terra Roxa E Outras Terras: Revista De Estudos Literários, vol. 43, no. 1, June 2023, p. 10, doi:10.5433/1678-2054.2023vol43n1p10.

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