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Project(ing) Human: Representations of Disability in Science Fiction

Courtney Stanton (Ed.)

by Sean Mock , Craig A. Meyer (Texas A&M University), Daniel Preston (Syracuse University), Samuel Shelton (Oregon State University), Elliot Mason (Concordia University, Montreal), Taylor Wesley (University of Denver), Agnibha Banerjee (Adamas University, India), Lucas Cober (Concordia University), Stevi Costa (Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle), Edmond Y. Chang (Ohio University), Jeana Moody (Prague College, Czech Republic)

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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

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