Abstract

This paper is a summary of the research developed from the consideration of technology, subjectivity and its approach to science fiction movies. Thus, we introduce nodal aspects arising from the analysis of films, that shows who technological change influence on subjectivity, along the historical development. Also from an intertextual approach incorporated as part of the theoretical framework, together with the theory of social representations, we consider fundamental contributions of psychoanalysis, genealogy and other contributions from the dispositifs of power and some interdisciplinary references. In our research, the main hypothesis suggests that the question about the future, inherent in a large fraction of science fiction films, results in a projection of present representations in every age. Even when the plot of the film intends to tell about the distant future, alludes to the closer conceivable future, if not directly to the present.
The observation and analysis of social representations in different films, intended to describe a possible future that leads us to the encounter between society and the reflection of their experiences. Finally, we propound through this methodological itinerary, a way to trace how the culture’s discomfort finds a way through science fiction, as expression of how it defines itself and what it expects of itself.

Key words: social representations | science fiction | subjectivity | technologies