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View article: Clayton Crockett. Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology, Multiplicity, and Event. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013 [Book review]
Clayton Crockett. Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology, Multiplicity, and Event. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013 [Book review] Open
Clayton Crockett’s Deleuze Beyond Badiou is the most recent critical intervention into the debate sparked by and surrounding Alain Badiou’s critique of Gilles Deleuze in The Clamour of Being (2000), which was given book-length treatment in…
View article: Fearful Symmetry: Technophilia and the Science Fiction Cyborg in J. G. Ballard’s and David Cronenberg’s Crash
Fearful Symmetry: Technophilia and the Science Fiction Cyborg in J. G. Ballard’s and David Cronenberg’s Crash Open
“Cybernetic organism,” or cyborg, is one of science fiction‟s (hereafter sf) numerous oppositional terms, like “virtual reality” or “artificial intelligence.” As these phrases become less fantastic and more conversational, the tension betw…
View article: Michel Foucault’s “What is an Author?” and Adaptation
Michel Foucault’s “What is an Author?” and Adaptation Open
Foucault will be used in this essay to explain and evaluate key claims relating to the adapting of literary authors' works, the self-fashioning of the auteur movement in film criticism, and the status of authors in adaptation. It will be t…
View article: Biocapitalism and schizophrenia
Biocapitalism and schizophrenia Open
Scholars have long noted the privileged relationship between science fiction and Marxian or neo-Marxian critical theory. Arguing that the emergent subgenre of biopunk is the science-fictional correlate of biocapitalism, this thesis builds …