Psicoesferas e literatura: uma análise a partir do livro Neuromancer

Abstract

The theme of literature has been approached at differents times and in differents ways by Geography. We try to explore an issue that stands out in today’s world, which is the mediation of technique in a generalized way in all areas of life. Thus, we try to approach the mutual relationship between literature and contemporaneity from the scientific fiction production. To deal geographically with this relationsihp we use the concept of Technical-Scientific-Informational Environment from Milton Santos and the concepts that introduce into the territory the technical-scientific-informational rationality: the technospheres (spheres of technical materiality); and psychospheres (spheres of actions that culturally and politically organize technical materiality). Duo to the nature of this project we emphasize the notion of psychospheres, as mediators of the relationship between society and technology, and the social imaginaries, as a socially shared referential scheme to interpret reality, appear to us as central elements for the debate. We chose for this debate the novel “Neuromancer” highlighting elements that allow us to problematize geographically leading us to several questions. We noticed that the artificial landscapes and the technical elements present throughout the novel presents the natural environment that is being supplanted by a technical environment. Similarly, we pointed out that the friction between mass culture and popular culture, consumerism, techniques to control and increase workers productivity, the impacts of the mass media on the constitution of social imaginaries tolerants to the market’s desires and a reconfiguration of the powers and attributions of National States and private companies, constitute a violent process of capital globalization. This monography allowed us to critically analyze our way of (re)organize the space and expose this mutual relationship between literature and geography beyond the context exercinsing a dynamic role of social life’s orderer.