Vogue, Porn and Documentaries: Analogue Media and the Uncanny in Speculative Fiction

Abstract

In modern society, media is all around us. In Speculative Ficton, this is not always the case. In Ballard’s High-Rise, Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, however, the access to media is denied or discarded. The function media has within the bounded systems that is enforced starts to change and intertwine with identity. In these narratives, media takes the place of the uncanny to question the authority behind media and how value is determined.