Ciencia, cuerpo, control y resistencia : una mirada crítica a Orphan Black

Abstract

The digital revolution has transformed reading practices due to the insertion of a new audiovisual ecosystem where the image presented on a screen has dethroned the word. This is the reason why multimodal texts such as films and series are the most currently consumed semiotic-discursive products and—like every product of culture— maintain a (want)-to say. Therefore, the purpose of this reflection article is to make a critical reading of Orphan Black (2013-2017) from the critical discourse analysis theoretical and methodological approach (Van Dijk, 2016). This theory shows how this text brings into question what the ethical precepts and limits of science should be, denounces how foreign bodies are conceived, as well as the practices that have been maintained and renewed to ensure social control, and exposes forms of resistance to achieve freedom, to encourage the reading of what is implicit in these narratives so as not to fall into naivety.