
Project(ing) Human: Representations of Disability in Science Fiction
Courtney Stanton (Ed.)
by Sean Mock
INTRODUCTION (Courtney Stanton)
SECTION ONE: ENGINEERING THE OTHER
I. “You were less than human”: The Commodification of the Disabled Non-human in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (Agnibha Banerjee)
II. A Eugenics of Disability: Transformation, Futurity, and the Disabled Monster Body in Resident Evil (Elliot Mason)
III. (Un)Diagnosing Religious Experience: Divine Encounters in Battlestar Galactica (Lucas Cober)
IV. Androids, Replicants, and Strange Things: Disability as Representative of Compromised Autonomy in Popular Science Fiction (Sean Mock)
SECTION TWO: QUEERING THE DYNAMICS OF CARE
V. The Animation of Stone: An Affective Queer Crip Reading of N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Series. (Jeana Moody)
VI. Towards an Intergalactic Disability Justice: Rebelling Against Ableism Through a Criptique of the Jedi Order (Samuel Shelton)
VII. Fish, Roses, and Sexy Sutures: Disability, Embodied Estrangement and Radical Care in Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu (Stevi Costa and Edmund Chang)
SECTION THREE: DISABILITY WITHIN/OF A GLOBALIZED FUTURE
VIII. “Neoliberal Convergences of Capital & Capacity: Reading Science Fiction with the ADA” (Taylor Wesley)
IX. Star Trek, Disability, and La Forge: Seeing Past the VISOR (Craig A. Meyer and Daniel Preston)
intersectionality, disability studies, sci-fi, sci-fi/fantasy, impairment, posthumanism, transhumanism, media studies, embodiment