Room Number: TRS 1-077
Join the Meeting: https://ryerson.zoom.us/j/93013927193?pwd=WjZkMTdtQUN1azZvaDBZaFE2cHoyZz09
Chair: Philip Dickinson (Lancaster U)
Speakers:
Raquel Baker (California State U), “Shared Paths/Ruptured Selves: Imagining Liberation in HBO’s Westworld”
Angelie Multani (IIT Delhi), “In our image”
Ruta Šlapkauskaité (Vilnius U), “Posthuman Comedy and the Maternal in Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams”
Paper Summaries:
Raquel Baker (California State U), “Shared Paths/Ruptured Selves: Imagining Liberation in HBO’s Westworld”
AfroCyberPunk is a style of science fiction that examines the ruptures inherent at the intersections of race, technology, and subjectivity. In this paper, I explore what the key Black female narrators of HBOs cyberpunk series Westworld – Maeve and Charlotte/Dolores – have to tell us about self-making practices in contemporary screen-mediated cultures
Angelie Multani (IIT Delhi), “In our image”
This paper will look at the novels ‘Never Let Me Go’ (Kazuo Ishiguro: 2005) and ‘Machines Like Me’ (Ian McEwan: 2019) and examine how these texts open up questions of humanity and what it means to be human and to be recognized as human.
Ruta Šlapkauskaité (Vilnius U), “Posthuman Comedy and the Maternal in Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams”
The paper examines the comic thrust of Australian author Richard Flanagan’s novel The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (2020) in relation to how it figures motherhood as a trope for environmental collapse.