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Issue 1.5 Previous Issues

Androids in the Academy

Zara Dinnen October 1, 2012 5 Comments android Apple cyborg David digital culture electronic literature Happy Birthday David HCI Human Computer Interaction hypertext iPhone 4S machine Michael Fassbender new media Nicholas Royle personal assistant personal computing posthumanism Prometheus queer Ridley Scott robot science fiction Siri Technology uncanny valley video games

There is something uncomfortable about David, the android from Ridley Scott’s 2012 film Prometheus. This is partly due to the various interpellations…

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Issue 1.2 Previous Issues

Gaming and the Novel

Marianne Corrigan July 1, 2012 5 Comments Alexander Galloway Barry Atkins biotechnology China Mieville computer game cyborg fictional form gaming Gary K. Wolfe Haruki Murakami inter-connectivity intertextuality Jonatham Letham Luka and the Fire of Life post-genre Railsea Salman Rushdie Weird Fition

In ‘Postcards from the Posthuman Solar System’, Scott Bukatman argues that ‘The body is no longer simply the repository of the soul; it has become…

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