“Prision, my lord?” Lecturas gnósticas da cidade, a literatura e o cine

Abstract

In “Prison my lord?” we’ve worked to achieve a double objective: in the first place, we create a new theoretical category: the “gnostic narrative”, which would be any type of story that has as its main subject-matter the (human and mechanic) creation of other worlds, simulated and second order realities, which threaten to mix and absorb our ‘real’ reality. After we justify the intellectual foundations of the concept (Jameson, Debord, Baudrillard), we continue with a provisional canon that exemplifies the category, and which includes examples taken from the fields of art, urbanism, literature (both science fiction and mainstream) and cinema.