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This volume is a critical investigation into the contemporary phenomenon of the dissensus of the globe and the planet, and the new terrains of consciousness that need to be negotiated towards a possibility for transformation. It examines the possibilities of alternate, sustainable modes of being and existing in a world which requires a unified, ethical, biopolitical worldview. The book explores themes like philosophical posthumanism and planetary concerns; disruption of cultural and intellectual inequality; bodily movement through nomadic subjectivity; dystopic spatialities of game(re)play; globalization, and speculative imaginaries of the body; and theory of multiplicity. It also discusses the impact of COVID-19 on human beings, the role of the neoliberal media, the question of rights of robots and cyborgs in sci-fi movies, and representation of refugees in literature.
This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English literature, political philosophy, cultural studies, literary cultures, post-colonial studies, critical theory, and social anthropology.
Contents
List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
SIMI MALHOTRA, SHRADDHA A. SINGH, AND ZAHRA RIZVI
PART I
Dissonance and Us 9
1 Portal, the Front, Wound: Three Metaphors to Explore the Planetary Crisis 11
JOFF P. N. BRADLEY
2 Philosophical Posthumanism and Planetary Concerns 29
FRANCESCA FERRANDO AND SHRADDHA A. SINGH
3 Move Over, Mona Lisa. Move Over, Jane Eyre: Disrupting the Cultural and Intellectual Inequality Pipeline 37
PEGGY LEVITT
4 Rethinking Metaphorical and Bodily Movement through Nomadic Subjectivity and Identity 50
VENYA PATEL
5 To Dream Again: Thoughts on Island Soundscapes and Environmentalism 65
PRIYA PARROTTA NATARAJAN
PART II
Discord, Dystopias, and Utopias 77
6 Becoming Utopian in a Threatened Order 79
TOM MOYLAN
7 Exploring Dystopic Spatialities of Game(re)play: A Study of Papers, Please and Orwell 93
ZAHRA RIZVI
8 Seeking a World of Their Own: Looking for 'Human' Rights in a Mechanized, Futuristic World 105
ARPITA SEN
9 Re-Orienting Reading: Ergodic Form of Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions 120
AINEE BASIR
PART III
Disparity and Speculative Overtures 131
10 An Open Letter from Rattus Norvegicus to New York City 133
RADHIKA SUBRAMANIAM
11 "As Told to": The Mediation of Refugee Voices in
Contemporary Short Fiction 143
MIRIAM WALLRAVEN
12 "I Am Also a We": Pathic Communities and the Globalization of Affect in the Wachowskis' Sense8 154
PAROMITA PATRANOBISH
13 Re-inscribing the World: Reflections on Sense-Making and Navigating the Networks of Global Capitalism 170
INDRANI DAS GUPTA
Index 187
