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Flies in the Face: Entomology and the Mechanics of Becoming-Living in ,ne of the first indicators that Dolores is not-quite- human and initiates the role of the fly as a being with the ability to discern the boundary between the living and non-living. As the series progresses, the fly continues to act as a harbinger, signaling moments of slippage between the organic an

Density

,’s Archideology and the Impossibility of Freedom,e park’s ideology—one Žižek would characterise as an “archideological” fantasy, where we are split between self-awareness and unconscious fantasy. If the human bodies are indeed “mechanised” by . ideology, rather than read the relationship between androids and humans as Other, my methodology propose

Urologist

A Mere Instrument of Production: Representing Domestic Labour in ,not only because of recent debates around gender, power and the “economics of consent” but also because . intersects with those debates through its creative representation of a structural power that is striated by gendered social relations. For its hosts—those “mere instrument of production”—. en

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,Escaping the Robot’s Loop? Power and Purpose, Myth and History in ,’s Manufactured Frontier,erest in the power of history to raise the consciousness of disempowered peoples. As a twenty-first-century TV show about robots, . is burdened by the plots and tropes that have dominated over two centuries of stories about robots and automata, including the 1973 film of the same name. Like its robo

流动才波动

,I-n-I Re-member Now: A Rastafari Reading of HBO’s ,limpsests to be written upon by hegemonic forces who constantly erase their memories, thus denying them a past and a sense of self. But Nigerian Nobel Prize winning playwright Wole Soyinka argues forcefully in his seminal play, . that “Memory is Master of Death, the chink in his armour of conceit,”

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