A Conversation with Constance Penley

A lot of the work that Constance Penley does is about gender technology and imagining technologies. Because this is a conference that focuses on science fiction I'd like to addresses technology and the body, including your current work on pornography and on the lessons the academy can learn from female media fans. [...]the subtitle Popular Science and Sex in America. Just as a lot of earlier fan culture [that] they themselves are now realizing and articulating was queer culture before its time. Because when you look at the way fans create, evaluate, share, disseminate their work, it's all the ways social media has evolved. Because it seems like the divide between the humanities and sciences is supposed to be gone, but it's still not gone.