"He-man and the masters of the universe": The 80's technoculture and one of the first recreations of the posthuman

Abstract

This article aims to revisit the He-man and the Masters of the Universe franchise, a recreational universe that has extended to various business areas. As it was a universe conceived in the context of the technoculture of the 1980s, it received the influence of several cultural and ideological elements that justify its classification as a representation of the posthuman. In fact, He-man's representations in later decades did not fail to reveal interesting elements for the academic study of the posthuman recreations in the face of the developments that have occurred in the popular culture and in the mass culture through the media. However, it is an entertainment product that continues to be essentially aimed at the audience of fans of the 80's, hence the existence of certain particularities in the evolution of their stories.