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Michel Nieva in conversation with Abdiel Hernández Mendoza

The hacking of science fiction

Querétaro 2025, 

Michel Nieva (Argentina) is a creator of gaucho-punk, which fuses the gauchesca tradition with the cyberpunk genre. In Ciencia ficción capitalista he draws our attention to the capitalist fantasies of the technological gurus. This essay explores how the language of science fiction has been kidnapped by the neoliberal ideas of Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg and co. In conversation with Abdiel Hernández Mendoza.