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Monstrous Reflection
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. By engaging and questioning existing definitions and ideas, all of the essays in this volume represent the idea of a ‘monstrous reflection’ in one way or another. Monsters can serve as a means to explore the cultural anxieties they embody and the reasons for these anxieties. Thus monsters act as mirrors highlighting the causes for the creation of categories. A reflection can also be a comment or statement applicable in that the monstrous or the word ‘monster’ becomes a label of otherness and exclusion. This label is sometimes a construction, a discursive and rhetorical trope, which only serves to other those deemed different or undesirable, suggesting that the monster might not always be monstrous. This volume is about the ones gazing into the mirror and the ‘things’ staring back at humanity along with the uncomfortable truths that are revealed in the process.
Monstrous Spaces: The Other Frontier
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. Monstrous Spaces: The Other Frontier, is a collection of essays presented during the First Global Conference of Monstrous Geography held at Manchester College, Oxford. When examining monstrous geographies, we encounter an Other frontier, a space that runs counter to the socially constructed space of culture that at the same time includes, overlaps, and co-occupies the cultural landscape.
Stories in Post-Human Cultures
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. This volume represents the collective visions of twenty-one post-humanist cyberculture scholars. The complimentary and dissenting voices within have been organized into three categories for this work, the first within the general category of Post-Humanism, what it is, why it is important, and what we as ‘pre post-human humans’ currently know about our culture and the direction it is taking us towards the eventual post-human times. Next, venture into the Cultures in Cyberspace which are shaping our future worlds today, for to understand the culture of our interconnectedness is to begin to appreciate the impossibly complex intricacies of the coming age of connectedness. To this end, New Narrativism becomes our gateway to this future.
Monstrous Geographies: Places and Spaces of the Monstrous
Preliminary Material /Sarah Montin and Evelyn Tsitas -- 'The Only Thing to be Deplored is the Extraordinary Mortality': Flinders Island and the Imagination of the British Empire /Tom Lawson -- Zombies in the Colonies: Imperialism and Contestation of Ethno-Political Space in Max Brooks' The Zombie Survival Guide /Robert A. Saunders -- The Perilous Sites of the Atlantikwall /Rose Tzalmona -- 'Monstrous Homes': How Private Spaces Shape Characters' Identities in 19th-Century Sensation Fiction /Christina Flotmann -- Enchanted Microcosm or Apocalyptic Warzone? Human Projections into the Bug World /Petra Rehling -- Monstrous Breeding Grounds: Creation, Isolation and Suffering at Noble's Island, Hailsham and Rankstadt /Evelyn Tsitas -- How the Earth Went Bad: From Wells' The War of the Worlds to the Zombie Apocalypse in the 21st Century /Simon Bacon -- 'Strange Outlandish Star': Spaces of Horror in the Poems and Memoirs of the War Poets /Sarah Montin -- Unsettling Empty Spaces, Displacing Terra Nullius /Thea Costantino -- Morgues, Museums and the Ghost of Errol Flynn /Erin Ashenhurst -- Architecture after Fukushima: Spaces of Bara Bara, Spaces of Reciprocity /Yutaka Sho.
Bodies, Noise and Power in Industrial Music
This edited collection delves into the industrial music genre, exploring the importance of music in (sub)cultural identity formation, and the impact of technology on the production of music. With its roots as early as the 1970s, industrial music emerged as a harsh, transgressive, and radically charged genre. The soundscape of the industrial is intense and powerful, adorned with taboo images, and thematically concerned with authority and control. Elemental to the genre is critical engagement with configurations of the body and related power. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this collection analyses the treatment of subjects like the Body (animal, human, machine), Noise (rhythmic, harsh...
Unveiling the Post-human
This electronic book gathers twenty papers presented at the 6th Global Conference Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction, which took place in the Mansfield College of Oxford, between the 12th and the 14th of July 2011.
Harry Potter’s World Wide Influence
The Harry Potter series forms a single epic story that has been published in nearly 70 languages, and has been examined in a large number of disciplines. This collection of essays contributes to the scholarly discourse that forms Potter Studies. These essays take on the consideration of Rowling's work as being worthy of study as a phenomenon and influence, as well as a work of literary value. They add genuine statistical information about the reasons for the books' popularity, consider their effects on child readers, and examine some deep-rooted reasons for their having been manipulated in American publishing, in film adaptations, in musical complements, and in their thingification in popular culture around the world. Some of these essays take on the critics of the books' religion and considerations of psychological, as well as philosophical good and evil, and well as some stylistic anomalies. The fact that scholars from China, Germany, Poland, Romania, and Israel, in addition to English-speaking nations, have felt compelled to examine these books in detail testifies in part to Harry Potter's world-wide influence.
The Cinematic Political
In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and cinematic texts, emphasizing how to achieve an effective research paper/essay by heeding the compositional strategies of films. The text’s distinctiveness is its focus on the intermediation between two textual genres. It is aimed at providing both a conceptual introduction to the politics of aesthetics and a guide to writing strategies. In its illustrations of encounters between political theory and cinema, the book’s critical edge is its emphasis on how to intervene in cinematic texts with innovative conceptual frames in ways that challenge dominant understandings of life worlds. The Cinematic Political is designed as a teaching resource that introduces students to the relationship between film form and political thinking. With diverse illustrative investigations, the book instructs students on how to watch films with an eye toward writing a research paper in which a film (or set of films) constitutes the textual vehicle for political theorizing.
The Projected and Prophetic: Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace, and Science Fiction
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2011. The papers collected in this volume document the exchange and development of ideas that comprised the 5th Global Conference on Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace, and Science Fiction, hosted at Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom, in July 2010. As in the past, the conference was driven by questions related to how cyberculture, cyberspace and science fiction can provide new insights into the nature of what it is to be human and the understanding of what it means for human beings to live in communities. In addition to these recurring themes, there is just as importantly a disposition that is shared by those...
Navigating Cybercultures
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. This ebook provides an overview of the research presented at the seventh annual Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace, and Science Fiction conference, hosted by Inter-Disciplinary.Net at Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2012. Ranging from analyses of virtual spaces and cyberpunk fiction to critical examinations of posthumanism and online behaviour, with numerous fascinating detours along the way, these interdisciplinary and international perspectives provide further evidence, if any was needed, that our lives are intricately networked and connected—across digital, fictional, intellectual, and posthuman spaces. In one way or another, the chapters collected here all attempt to navigate these spaces.
