Culture
Literary, psychological, sociological and cultural analysis, including contemporary fiction, television, bioethics and the social life of ideas.
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Waking Without a Self to Trust: Dissociation, Confabulation, and Institutional Agency in Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes+
A cultural and psychological reading of dissociation, confabulation and institutional agency in Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes.
Symmetric Culpability: Clone Identity and Moral Responsibility Without Self-Knowledge in Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes
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A reading of clone identity and moral responsibility where self-knowledge cannot provide the usual basis for individual culpability.
A Person Not Yet Free to Refuse: Capacity, Coercion, and Consent in Annalee Newitz's Autonomous+
A philosophical-literary analysis of capacity, coercion and consent through Annalee Newitz's Autonomous, focusing on the conditions under which a person can meaningfully refuse.
The Labor of Becoming a Person+
An essay examining personhood, autonomy and the labor of becoming a recognized person through Paladin in Annalee Newitz's Autonomous.
What Borne Knows About Caring for the Unclassifiable+
An examination of care and classification through Borne, focusing on Rachel's relation to a nonhuman and difficult-to-classify being.
The Clinic That Isn't One: The Aunts as a Confessional Apparatus in The Handmaid's Tale+
A psychological, sociological and linguistic reading of Aunt Lydia, pseudo-care, confession, testimony, surveillance, guilt and internalized policing.
Severance and the Ethics of a Divided Mind+
An exploration of divided consciousness, responsibility and agency through a clinical and philosophical reading of Severance.