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.
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.
Simi Malhotra is Professor and Head, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. Her latest publications are the edited books Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation and Inhabiting Cyberspace in India: Theory, Perspectives and Challenges, (both 2021, Springer), and the co-authored books Terrains of Consciousness: Multilogical Perspectives on Globalization, (2021, Würzburg University Press), and Ocean as Method: Thinking With The Maritime (2022, Routledge). Shraddha A. Singh is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi, India. She works on literary theory and genre fiction with a special interest in Margaret Atwood's oeuvre. She has worked on international projects, has several publications and has presented papers at national and international seminars and conferences. Her latest publication is titled Speculation and Detection: Explorations in Genre Fiction (2022, Worldview Publications). She is a published bilingual poet and has read her poetry at the Sahitya Akademi (Indian Academy of Letters). Zahra Rizvi is a PhD scholar and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, and works in the fields of cultural studies, utopia/dystopia studies, digital humanities, and game studies. She is co-founder of the Indian chapter of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) and is a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Fellow at Yale University. She was recently Ministry of Education-SPARC Fellow in Digital Humanities at Michigan State University, and Electronic Literature Organization Fellow 2022. She has delivered lectures at Michigan State University, Jamia Millia Islamia, and Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. Her work has been published in several online and print journals.
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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
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
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