El cuerpo revestido en Dune (1965-2003)

Abstract

This research prioritizes the conception of the human being as a social animal surrounded or cloaked by cultural material to approach the interpretation of a fictional text considered a milestone in its genre, as well as its literary sequels and its audiovisual translations generated by the creative film or television industries. Its starting point is the theoretical creation Fashion theory, written by the Italian sociolinguist Patrizia Calefato. Its alterdisciplinarity allows us to place the analysis in a critical constructive position regarding postmodernity. This is a cross-cutting and fluid speculative perspective and it dialogues satisfactorily with other visions of reality, both ordinary and academic and related to the popular culture of recent decades and to millenarian traditions that subtly underlie everyday life. It also works to take a critical eye towards the future, towards the galactic worlds imagined by the great Frank Herbert. Scrutinizing the work of the North-american author through the calefatian lens lets us obtain singular and surprising readings that clarify the advanced degree of his intellectual proposal.