Lancaster University, 8th–10th August 2019
Chinese literature has an extensive history of conflating illness and national infirmity, beginning with the “Sick Man of Asia” stereotype promulgated by the West after the country’s forced opening and internalized by Chinese authors and individuals in the following decades. Waging a war against germs, the rural-based CCP portrayed itself as wielder of modern scientific …
The zombie has proven itself not only as a powerful popular metaphor and a legitimate subject of pop culture scholarship, but also as a strong tool of critical thought in the field of biomedicine. This paper draws from research in my PhD thesis, in which I use the zombie as a modelling tool to critically …
At the onset of Alastair Reynolds’ 2007 science fiction novel House of Suns, Campion, one of the primary protagonists of the novel, visits the Vigilance, who are curators of a vast interstellar archive, whereupon the means by which interstellar history is recorded, on a posthuman scale, is outlined. This process of data exchange is of …