Ageing in Wonderland

‘Ageing in Wonderland’ is an artefact and exegesis that explores the relationship between aging and technology. It consists of a novel with magic realist undertones titled ‘The Floating World’ which follows the journey of a forty-plus newly separated woman as she tries to make her way back into employment in the early 1980s. The exegesis investigates the way magic realism can be used to interrogate representations of technology, the role of technology and considers how we position ageing in our society. These elements combine to pose the research question of ‘how can we represent the relationship between aging, technoligarchy and women’s experience in times of technological change through fiction’.