El ciberpunk mexicano en dos ficciones breves: creación y cuerpo más allá de lo humano = Mexican Cyberpunk in Two Short Fictions: Creation and the Body Beyond the Human

Abstract

The aim of this work is to show a particular vision of science fiction as a hyperbolic fictional text about an extratextual universe, and with this basis reflect on the way in which two short fictions, the cyberpunk tales "Para Skim" (1997) and "Conversaciones con Yoni Rei" (1998) by Mexican Pepe Rojo, addresses two issues related to the transcendence of the human in Mexican science fiction: the creation, as a practice resulting from an artificial intelligence, and the transformation of the body as an explicit negation of the prefixed idea of the human. The nuclei of meaning of these stories reflect in extremis on the way in which we relate to reality from the media, and point to different approaches to the body and its violation. The proposal of Rojo, developed from the neoliberal Mexican reality of the 90's, can be recovered as a questioning of current daily life by questioning aspects such as virtuality, the use of artificial intelligence and hyperconnectivity.