Imaginário midiático na ficção científica: pós-humano no seriado televisivo ‘Star Trek – New Generation’

Resumo (EN)

This paper deals with the mediatic imaginary in the scientific fiction,
particularly about the post-human subject matter present in some episodes from the
television series Star Trek – New Generation. The main objective is to map the
articulation between the technological social imaginary and the post-human
represented in the scientific fiction. The problem which provoked this research was to
answer what technological social imaginary values were presented in the television
series Star Trek – New Generation and how these values express the post-human
anguishes.
The initial suppositions pointed out the imagination presence in the relations
among human beings and machines, forming a shared social representations group
called post-human. These representations are results from the human being anxiety
concerning its existential condition. The cultural response promotes a post-human
social imaginary, a hybrid human being-machine, that tries to get over the human
limitations in the fantasy level. This image is present in the several cultural industry
products, among them the television series Star Trek – New Generation.
The analyses corpus was the Data character from the television series Star
Trek – New Generation, an android who lives together human beings and that,
whether on the one hand gets in touch with human limitations, on the other hand,
pursues to become a “human excessively human”.
This research had an investigative character bibliographic investigative and
used studies in the media technological imaginary scope proposed by theorists as
Juremir Machado and Erick Felinto, as theoretical reference; studies about the
scientific fiction developed by Raul Fiker and Iser Wolfgang; and reflections
concerning the post-human developed by Donna Haraway and Fátima Regis.