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Bonnevier, Jenny. "In the Womb of Utopia: Feminist Science Fiction, Reproductive Technology, and the Future." American Studies in Scandinavia 55, no. 1 (2023): 70–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v55i1.6858.

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This article explores the ways in which reproductive technology is used as a literary trope to enable or embody adesired social order in a utopian setting. It discusses Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) and “Coming of Age in Karhide” (1995), Joanna Russ’ The Female Man (1975), and Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time (1976). In these American classics of feminist science fiction, reproduction is a key element, and they are rooted in a feminist understanding of power that sees the organization of both reproductive and child-care labor as central to analyses of patriarchy, as

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Yaakob, Haniwarda. "SETTING THE BOUNDARIES OF INDIVIDUAL REPRODUCTIVE AUTONOMY: THE CASE OF ARTIFICIAL WOMB." UUM Journal of Legal Studies 13, No.2 (2022): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/uumjls2022.13.2.1.

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Artificial womb or ectogenesis may sound like science fiction at present. Nevertheless, research on this technology is moving rapidly and it is anticipated to be ready for human testing in years to come. Although not yet a reality, early discussion on the legal and ethical ramifications of this technology should be encouraged as to ensure that the law is moving side by side with the scientific developments. Therefore, this article undertakes the challenge of identifying and presenting the potential implications of ectogenesis to women, embryos, and society, with special reference to the legal

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Niari, Maria, Anna Apostolidou, and Ivi Daskalaki. "Anthropological intersections between new reproductive technologies and new digital technologies." TECHNO REVIEW. International Technology, Science and Society Review 9, no. 1 (2020): 49–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.37467/gka-revtechno.v9.2645.

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The digital turn in anthropology and ethnography is not a sudden rupture to the field’s epistemological quest. In recent years, after the visual turn and the evolution of Digital Humanities, there have been notable efforts to address the digital aspect of social reality by several anthropologists worldwide. However, the focus has been predominantly on the observation of internet cultures and communities, mainly tackling phenomena that ‘take place’ in the digital realm, and on the techniques and issues that arise from conducting online research with limited contributions to the theoretical rami

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Zedalis, Jennifer. "The Time-traveling Lawyer: Using Time Travel Stories and Science Fiction in Legal Education." British Journal of American Legal Studies 11, no. 2 (2022): 355–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/bjals-2022-0008.

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Abstract Science fiction and time travel can be used to inform and enhance the education of law students in profound ways. Within the broader field of law and literature, the relationship between law and science fiction, especially time travel stories, is rich and useful. Themes and concepts in time travel can be applied in the exploration of existing legal philosophies as well as a more expansive and engaging study of power, authority, freedom, and a number of global issues. As governments and people worldwide wrestle with climate change, armed conflict, pandemics, and the increasing signific

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Halil Tunc, Ahyan Hassan, Hasan Rizvi, Saifullah Alsaaty, and Emine Tunc. "Nanotechnological Innovations in Healthcare." Proceedings of London International Conferences, no. 11 (October 15, 2024): 171–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.31039/plic.2024.11.258.

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Nanotechnology is a concept much older and more prevalent than you may think. This article will delve into the applications of nanotechnology in various fields of medicine. Using ideas and research, old and new, this publication uses various studies to explore how nanotechnology saves, improves, and, in some cases, enables life. Frankly, the fields discussed further in this paper have nothing in common other than significant and interesting applications of nanotechnology. However, even with this diverse array of fields, only a fraction of nanotechnology’s massive impact across medicinal practi

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Halil Tunc, Ahyan Hassan, Hasan Rizvi, Saifullah Alsaaty, and Emine Tunc. "Nanotechnological Innovations in Healthcare." London Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences, no. 4 (February 9, 2025): 52–64. https://doi.org/10.31039/ljis.2025.4.303.

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Nanotechnology is a concept much older and more prevalent than you may think.[19] This article will delve into the applications of nanotechnology in various fields of medicine. Using ideas and research, old and new, we explore how nanotechnology saves, improves, and, in some cases, enables life.[15] This model led us to create a paper covering a diverse array of medicinal fields in which nanotechnology has the most opportunity and effect. Frankly, the fields we chose have nothing in common other than significant and interesting applications of nanotechnology. However, even with our diverse arr

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Broege, Valerie. "Views on Human Reproduction and Technology in Science Fiction." Extrapolation 29, no. 3 (1988): 197–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.1988.29.3.197.

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Drux, Rudolf. "Vom Leben aus der Retorte." Rhetorik 37, no. 1 (2018): 52–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rhet.2018.004.

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Abstract Since 1987, the year of birth of the first child conceived outside the womb, experiments with human life have been leading to an intense public debate about the benefits, chances and risks of research in reproductive medicine. For what had formerly existed in fictional worlds only, be it the alchemical mind game, the homunculus- recipe of Paracelsus or the breeding centre of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, was now happening in reality. With in vitro fertilization becoming a feasible alternative to creating offspring, the literary forms of representation for those technologies changed

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Castillo, Debra A. "Male Pregnancy in Yucatán, 2218: Eduardo Urzaiz's Eugenia." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 58, no. 1 (2024): 27–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2024.a931917.

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Abstract: This article studies the 1919 novel Eugenia by the prolific Yucatec writer and medical doctor Eduardo Urzaiz, focusing on gestational surrogacy and its implications as it is represented in this short novel. I argue that Urzaiz's fantasy of mainstreamed assisted reproduction technology and gestational surrogacy echoes current, more dissimulated discussions of what it means for affluent members of society with disposable income to place an order for a designer baby. While eugenics received a bad name after the excesses of the Nazi regime, its underlying principles certainly remain sali

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Chandan, Surabhi. "Beyond the Flesh: Posthumanism, Identity, and the Dissolution of Human Borders in Margaret Atwood's Speculative Fiction." International Journal of Language, Literature and Culture 5, no. 2 (2025): 29–34. https://doi.org/10.22161/ijllc.5.2.4.

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This paper examines the dissolution of human boundaries and the emergence of posthuman subjectivities in Margaret Atwood’s speculative fiction, focusing on Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Drawing on critical posthumanist theory, especially the works of Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway, and N. Katherine Hayles, the paper explores how Atwood challenges Enlightenment ideals of the human as a rational, autonomous entity. Instead, her narratives foreground a fragmented, hybrid, and ecologically embedded posthuman subject. The Crakers, bioengineered beings devoid of huma

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Zhang, Xinru. "Reflections on Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Warhol and Baudrillard in Dialogue." Communications in Humanities Research 39, no. 1 (2024): 245–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/39/20242234.

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At the beginning of the 20th century, the Industrial Revolution promoted the invention and application of modern mechanical products. The rapid development of productivity led to a speedy improvement in the material standard of living and a surplus of material goods, but the problem of "depersonalisation" arose as individuals gradually lost their sense of satisfaction and individuality in the same mechanised work. The Pop artist Andy Warhol reflected on this era of mechanisation through the reproduction and imitation of forms, initiating his discourse and reflection on the industrial age. A ce

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Balistreri, Maurizio, and Solveig Lena Hansen. "Moral and Fictional Discourses on Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Current Responses, Future Scenarios." NanoEthics 13, no. 3 (2019): 199–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11569-019-00359-y.

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Borchard, Kurt. "The Van Gogh Experience." Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 12, no. 1 (2023): 50–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2023.12.1.50.

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This experimental writing both embodies and interrogates how creative work that is re-mixed and re-presented also creates multivalent “experiences.” A menagerie of quotations performs both a narrative-of-thinking and open-ended discursive potential. The work asks: Can this manuscript both analyze and perform a subversion, problematizing notions of authenticity, authorship, ownership, production, distribution, reception, and meaning? Can immersion in fragmented, derivative writing produce an affective experience in line with a contemporary post-pandemic and technologically- and social-media-imm

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McCoy, Shane. "Reading the “Outsider Within”: Counter-Narratives of Human Rights in Black Women’s Fiction." Radical Teacher 103 (October 27, 2015): 56–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/rt.2015.228.

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In Pedagogies of Crossing (2005), M. Jacqui Alexander asserts that human rights are not rights at all; in fact, human rights does little to mitigate the violence perpetuated by late capitalism and the legacies of imperialism and colonialism. Alexander’s point of contention brings to bear the fact that the passing of human rights by the United Nations, among other groups, institutes a “dominant knowledge framework” that does nothing to mitigate the violence perpetuated by unequal power structures (2005; 124). My paper focuses on the function of literary counter-narratives as a useful pedagogica

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Adams, Kim. "“Electrical Nutrition and Glandular Control”: Eugenics, Progressive Science, and George Schuyler’s Black No More." Twentieth-Century Literature 68, no. 2 (2022): 113–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0041462x-9808065.

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In 1931, African American journalist George Schuyler imagined a medical treatment that could turn Black people white and American politics upside down. Schuyler’s novel, Black No More, uses this fictional race-altering technology to mount a satirical critique of progressive era investment in eugenic science as a tool of social reform. The novel draws on popular scientific theories of human perfection—electric medicine, hygienic nutrition, and glandular theory—to envision a mode of technological reproduction that troubles eugenic theories of biological inheritance and parodies the progressive m

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Wulandari, Ismadiah. "Reterritorialization In a Fandom of Popular Korean Culture: Identity Reproduction To a Korean Wave." JSSH (Jurnal Sains Sosial dan Humaniora) 4, no. 2 (2020): 167. http://dx.doi.org/10.30595/jssh.v4i2.7404.

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Information technology and the role of the media encourage the emergence of cultures that are loved by many people around the world. Culture becomes a popular culture because of the contribution of mass media or new media. Korean culture is one of popular culture in Indonesia today. Various behaviors of Indonesian people mimic the culture in Korea, from the style of dress, lifestyle, hairstyle to even the style of speech sometimes imitating the cultural habits.In a world that has deteritorialized, new meanings shown locally because the existence of territorial not stay in one location. Deterri

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Singh, Greg. "Recognition and the image of mastery as themes in Black Mirror (Channel 4, 2011–present): an eco-Jungian approach to ‘always-on’ culture." International Journal of Jungian Studies 6, no. 2 (2014): 120–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19409052.2014.905968.

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There are plenty of examples in moving image culture, following quite distinct and innovative traditions in science fiction literature, where the role of technology seems to have afforded a utopian society; a society where all is clean and free of crime, where we need not worry about hunger, disease, or even the messy business of reproduction through physical intimacy. All needs catered for, all tastes accounted for; and in the middle of it all, a single, solitary human subject wondering that perhaps this is not the way that things were meant to be. In Black Mirror (Channel 4, Zeppotron, 2011–

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Dixon-Román, Ezekiel, and Luciana Parisi. "Data capitalism and the counter futures of ethics in artificial intelligence." Communication and the Public 5, no. 3-4 (2020): 116–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2057047320972029.

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Ethics in data science and artificial intelligence have gained broader prominence in both scholarly and public discourse. Much of the scholarly engagements have often been based on perspectives of transparency, politics of representation, moral ethical norms, and refusal. In this article, while the authors agree that there is a problem with the universal model of technology, they argue that what these perspectives do not address is the postcolonial epistemology of the machine. Drawing from Mark Fisher’s science fiction capital, it is posited that data capitalism doesn’t rely on data as a given

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Williamson, Matt. "Nice day to go fishing." Science Fiction Film & Television 17, no. 3 (2024): 357–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2024.20.

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This article analyzes the representation of repetition in Viva la Dirt League’s online fantasy television series Epic NPC Man. The show is a parodic depiction of a fictional multiplayer fantasy computer game in which a variety of non-player characters (NPCs) exhibit varying degrees of self-awareness. The very concept of the show entails an underlying formal reliance upon strategies of reproduction, with the series providing live-action reenactment of various conventional situations from video games. But repetition also appears within the show as an explicit theme, with the characters defined b

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Koh, Hye-lim. "The Literary Reproduction of Cultural Memory and Trauma." Society for Chinese Humanities in Korea 84 (August 31, 2023): 171–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.35955/jch.2023.08.84.171.

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The “nation narrative” that literature evokes after the war is reproduced again in literature. The memory of war reproduced in literature functions as a kind of window to approach the truth of history by adding fictional imagination to the fragmented and blurred personal narrative. Memory and trauma can be considered through historical historical historical research of war, but it can be dealt with from a macroscopic and international perspective centered on grand discourses or national narratives, which can make it far from restoring the war experience and understanding of individual subjects

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Wagner, Christiane. "Artworks and the Paradoxes of Media-Transmitted Reality." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, no. 20 (October 15, 2019): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i20.324.

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This article analyzes selected classic art that influences contemporary images. The basis of this study is an analysis of the transformation of long-established and internationally-recognized artwork through digital technology and social media. This investigation also highlights the symbolic meaning behind the representation and reproduction of media images concerning the political impact of global visual culture.Visual culture consists of images of reality that are constantly being reconfigured. Thus, the visual arts develop consensually, based on democratic ideals and freedom of expression.

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VYSHYNSKYI, Sviatoslav. "ALIENATION OF RATIONALITY: THREATS, CHALLENGES AND THINKING POSTHUMANISM." Filosofska dumka (Philosophical Thought), no. 4 (December 12, 2024): 53–61. https://doi.org/10.15407/fd2024.04.053.

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The article is devoted to the problem of artificial intelligence and the challenges of “smart technologies”, which threaten the autonomy of human mind and the existence of human itself. The author states the crisis situation of contemporary culture, the existential fatigue of humanity, which manifests itself in the intention to delegate one’s own subjectivity, will and rationality to external actors – namely the Internet, artificial intelligence, and robotics. The article discovers the alienation of the fundamental quality of a thinking person – intelligence – and the threat of human enslaveme

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Голованова, Н. Ю. "The representatives of colour palette in the NOVEL “In the fog” by L.N. Andreev." Актуальные вопросы современной филологии и журналистики, no. 4(39) (February 2, 2021): 101–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.36622/aqmpj.2020.39.4.014.

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Настоящая статья посвящена изучению цветовой лексики в повести Л.Н. Андреева «В тумане» (1902). Целью статьи является выявление специфики цветовых репрезентантов в повести Л.Н. Андреева, их функциональной значимости в художественном тексте. В исследовании представлены причины особого внимания Л.Н. Андреева к цвету, связанные с автобиографическим аспектом творчества: автор занимался таким направлением, как создание автохромной фотографии - особой технологией преобразования и воспроизведения цвета. Основную палитру в творчестве писателя составляют красный, черный, желтый, синий, белый цвета. В к

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Krendel, Alexandra, and Mike Ryder. "Role of science fiction in conceptualising the reproductive future: a linguistic and literary perspective." Medical Humanities, March 26, 2025, medhum—2024–013207. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2024-013207.

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In this paper, we explore how members of the public invoke science fiction tropes and references in response to the topic of complete ectogenesis (where the entire development of a fetus takes place outside of the human body in an artificial womb environment) and, to a lesser extent, genome editing. This paper addresses a critical research gap as fiction is central to how the public make sense of new technologies. This research is timely, as human clinical trials of artificial placenta and womb technology are expected to start within the next few years. We argue that gauging public opinion on

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Halsband, Aurélie. "Embryo selection, AI and reproductive choice." AI and Ethics, December 20, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-024-00651-y.

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AbstractIn reproductive medicine, current research into the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve embryo selection has been met with enthusiasm. Within ethics, previous assessments of AI-assisted embryo selection have focused, for example, on liability gaps or risks arising from opaque decision-making. I argue that this focus on the ethical issues raised by AI in embryo selection alone is incomplete because it neglects how AI’s convergence with other innovative reproductive technologies raises further ethical issues. I describe how AI is acting as a catalyst for a social disruption of

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Crooks, Juliette. "Recreating Prometheus." M/C Journal 4, no. 4 (2001). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1926.

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Prometheus, chained to a rock, having his liver pecked out by a great bird only for the organ to grow back again each night so that the torture may be repeated afresh the next day must be the quintessential image of masculinity in crisis. This paper will consider Promethean myth and the issues it raises regarding 'creation' including: the role of creator, the relationship between creator and created, the usurping of maternal (creative) power by patriarchy and, not least, the offering of an experimental model in which masculine identity can be recreated. I argue that Promethean myth raises sign

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Ma, Wen, Zhuo Chen, Ying Li, Guodong Ju, and Yunsong Chen. "The shackles of gender still exist: Chinese women authors’ consciousness in boys’ love fiction." Chinese Journal of Sociology, February 11, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2057150x241226736.

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Boys’ love (BL) fiction has flourished in China since the beginning of the twenty-first century. It primarily focuses on the romance between men, while most authors and readers of BL fiction are heterosexual women; thus it is paradoxically patriarchal and feminist. This study aims to explore two main questions: (1) What topics do Chinese BL fiction authors prefer? (2) How do the gender concepts of Chinese culture affect the topics and contents of BL fiction? Adopting machine learning methods––the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model and word vector technology—this study presents the t

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Glensted, Christine. "I forplantningens tegn." Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, no. 4 (December 15, 2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v0i4.27917.

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The thesis of this article is that our under- standing of gender and gender differences is characterised by unacknowledged fantasies related to reproduction as a fundamental condition of human existence. The article analyses works by Heinrich von Kleist and Thomas Mann with a view to revealing how unconscious masculine ideas connected with the conditions of reproduction determine the representation of the two genders. The analysis focuses on the metaphors contained in the literary texts and demonstrates that it is through the rhetoric rather than the explicit messages of these texts that these

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Ingram-Waters, Mary. "Writing the pregnant man." Transformative Works and Cultures 20 (May 17, 2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2015.0651.

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This article explores how an online community of female fans of Harry Potter creates and maintains scientific and medical knowledge of a novel reproductive technology, male pregnancy. In an effort to illuminate the mechanisms of fandom, I show how fandom participants collectively work to ensure the maintenance of standards for fan products and in doing so also selectively reinforce particular tropes about how male pregnancy is portrayed. Fans' validation of some male pregnancy variations over others results in a fascinating yet recognizable set of fictional reproductive technologies that both

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Mishra, Priyadarshini, and Nagendra Kumar. "The Surrogacy Literacy of the Indian Surrogate: The Filmy Way." Media Watch, August 14, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09760911231189007.

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According to narrative theories, fiction and non-fiction literature are text types that can manifest themselves in different mediums. Cinema is a medium that imitates both text types for a screenplay. However, when a non-fiction work is fictionalised for its cinematic representation, it invites urgent and special attention on the social front. This study investigates the sexual, social and economic typecasting of Indian surrogates through the lens of Indian cinema. The landscape of the media texts used for this study ranges from two prevalent practicing modes of surrogacy in India—the traditio

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Brigitte, DONGO Emma, and SAYNI Kouamé. "The Butch/Femme Couple: Reproducing Patriarchal Marriage in Loving Her (1974) by Ann Allen Shockley." International Journal of Social Science and Human Research 6, no. 09 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v6-i9-44.

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The historical objective of feminist movements, whatever their trends, has been the end of gender and patriarchal inequality in the society. In spite of the progress that these feminist battles have achieved, the traditional model persists in contemporary America, at least this is what is pictured in Ann A. Shockley’s Loving Her (1974), the fiction which focuses attention in this work. In this novel, as a lesbian couple represented by Terry and Renay stubbornly challenges traditional gender and patriarchal forces in order to enjoy their sexual life, the reader discovers many signs of these for

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Khan, Rehan Ahmed, Masood Jawaid, Aymen Rehan Khan, and Madiha Sajjad. "ChatGPT - Reshaping medical education and clinical management." Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences 39, no. 2 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.39.2.7653.

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Artificial Intelligence is no more the talk of the fiction read in novels or seen in movies. It has been making inroads slowly and gradually in medical education and clinical management of patients apart from all other walks of life. Recently, chatbots particularly ChatGPT, were developed and trained, using a huge amount of textual data from the internet. This has made a significant impact on our approach in medical science. Though there are benefits of this new technology, a lot of caution is required for its use. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.39.2.7653 How to cite this: Khan

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Muller, Vivienne. "Motherly Love." M/C Journal 5, no. 6 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2008.

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There is a humorously disturbing cartoon by Mary Leunig of a mother as a suffering Jesus figure crucified on the cross of motherhood. The image simultaneously evokes and countersigns the idealised portrait of mothers as serene and self-sacrificing Madonna figures. In Leunig’s cartoon the mother wears a crown of nappy pins; her children, inconsolable, bereft of the mother as a site of selfless love and nurture, look up at her on the cross. Over twenty years old, this cartoon haunts the viewer with its ironic/iconic motifs of motherhood, because it signifies the presence of an absence – the abse

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Clark, Lindsay C. "Delivering life, delivering death: Reaper drones, hysteria and maternity." Security Dialogue, April 27, 2021, 096701062199762. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010621997628.

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Like all warfare, drone warfare is deeply gendered. This article explores how this military technology sediments or disrupts existing conceptualizations of women who kill in war. The article using the concept of motherhood as a narrative organizing trope and introduces a ‘fictional’ account of motherhood and drone warfare and data from a ‘real life’ account of a pregnant British Reaper operator. The article considers the way trauma experienced by Reaper drone crews is reported in a highly gendered manner, reflecting the way women’s violence is generally constructed as resulting from personal f

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Taylor, Paul. "Fleshing Out the Maelstrom." M/C Journal 3, no. 3 (2000). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1853.

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Biopunk is an intriguing development of that essential cultural reference point for the information age: cyberpunk. William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984) did more than popularise the phrase cyberspace, it laid the basis for a genre that went on to capture the turbulent zeitgeist of a new digital age in which the promises of the much-vaunted, information society finally seemed possible. Karl Marx used the phrase "All that is solid melts into air..."1 to describe the profound social changes wrought by capitalism. It is also a fitting description of the apparent technology-induced paradigm shift in

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Caldwell, Nick, and Sean Aylward Smith. "Machine." M/C Journal 2, no. 6 (1999). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1779.

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Briareos: If it's so quiet, then why do they need machines like that? I thought it was supposed to be peacetime. I'll tell you why-eighty per cent of the people here are artificial. Genetic engineering's out of control! -- Shirow, Appleseed 1.5: 37. Welcome to the 'machine' issue of M/C, appropriately mediated to you through the global network of machines sometimes known as the Internet. The question of the machine might seem a curious one for media and cultural studies scholars -- after all, commonsense tells us that whilst machines may let us practice culture or produce media, they are by de

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Pinder, Morgan. "Mouldy Matriarchs and Dangerous Daughters." M/C Journal 24, no. 5 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2832.

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The Resident Evil video game series is especially notable for engaging with uncanny nature and monstrous reproduction, often facilitated through viral contamination. These third-person games usually feature an outbreak of some kind, instigated by a shadowy organisation, and star a member of law enforcement or the military as the protagonist. However, the seventh and eighth games of the franchise were different. While they explored many of the same themes and conventions as their predecessors, the technologies by which they evoked fear and suspense had become further immersed in the survival ho

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"Synthetic Biology – Friend or Foe? What Kind of Threats Should We Expect?" Journal of NBC Protection Corps 5, no. 2 (2021): 103–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.35825/2587-5728-2021-5-2-103-122.

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Synthetic biology is a newly emerging branch of dual-use technology. It is a combination of biology and different branches of engineering. The aim of this article is to show the main technological methods of synthetic biology and to give specific examples of its use to create new types of biological agents and methods of biological warfare, previously unthinkable and presented only in science fiction. Basic tools and techniques of synthetic biology are: DNA synthesis and DNA sequencing; «chassis», i.e. host system harboring the genetic toolbox for expression of the desired genes, delivered by

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Levine, Michael, and William Taylor. "The Upside of Down: Disaster and the Imagination 50 Years On." M/C Journal 16, no. 1 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.586.

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IntroductionIt has been nearly half a century since the appearance of Susan Sontag’s landmark essay “The Imagination of Disaster.” The critic wrote of the public fascination with science fiction disaster films, claiming that, on the one hand “from a psychological point of view, the imagination of disaster does not greatly differ from one period in history to another [but, on the other hand] from a political and moral point of view, it does” (224). Even if Sontag is right about aspects of the imagination of disaster not changing, the types, frequency, and magnitude of disasters and their repres

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Sofoulis, Zoé. "Machinic Musings with Mumford." M/C Journal 2, no. 6 (1999). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1781.

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What is a machine? As part of his answer to this, historian and philosopher of technology Lewis Mumford cites a classic definition: "a machine is a combination of resistant bodies so arranged that by their means the mechanical forces of nature can be compelled to do work accompanied by certain determinant motions" (Reuleaux [1876], qtd. in Mumford, Technics and Civilisation 9). Mumford's own definition is focussed on machines as part of a technological continuum between human body and automaton: Machines have developed out of a complex of non-organic agents for converting energy, for performin

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Mayo, Sherry. "NXT Space for Visual Thinking." M/C Journal 1, no. 4 (1998). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1722.

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"Space, the limitless area in which all things exist and move." -- Merriam-Webster Dictionary(658) Can we determine our point in time and space at this moment of pre-millennium anticipation? The evolution of our visualisation of space as a culture is shifting and entering the critical consciousness of our global village. The infinite expansion of space's parameters, definitions and visualisation remains the next frontier -- not only for NASA, but for visual culture. Benjamin's vision of loss of the aura of originality through reproduction has come to pass, so has the concept of McLuhan's globa

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Dean, Gabrielle. "Portrait of the Self." M/C Journal 5, no. 5 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1991.

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Let us work backwards from what we know, from personal experience: the photograph of which we have each been the subject. Roland Barthes says of this photograph that it transforms "the subject into object": one begins aping the mask one wants to assume, one begins, in other words, to make oneself conform in appearance to the disguise of an identity (Camera Lucida 11). A quick glance back at your most recent holiday gathering will no doubt confirm his diagnosis. Barthes gives to this subject-object the title of Spectrum in order to neatly join the idea of spectacle with the fearsome spectre, wh

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Munster, Anna. "Love Machines." M/C Journal 2, no. 6 (1999). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1780.

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A new device, sure to inspire technological bedazzlement, has been installed in Hong Kong shopping malls. Called simply The Love Machine, it functions like a photo booth, dispensing on-the-spot portraits1. But rather than one subject, it requires a couple, in fact the couple, in order to do its work of digital reproduction. For the output of this imaging machine is none other than a picture of the combined features of the two sitters, 'morphed' together by computer software to produce a technological child. Its Japanese manufacturers, while obviously cashing in on the novelty value, neverthele

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Bode, Lisa. "Digital Doppelgängers." M/C Journal 8, no. 3 (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2369.

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   The doppelgänger (literally ‘double-goer’) of 18th and 19th century European literature and lore is a sinister likeness that dogs and shadows a protagonist heralding their death or descent into madness – a ‘spectral presentiment of disaster’ (Schwartz 84). Recently the term ‘digital doppelgänger’ has been adopted by the English-speaking entertainment and technology press to refer to a digital image of an actor or performer; whether that image is a computer-generated wire-frame model, an amalgamation of old film footage and artistry, or a three dimensional laser scan of the

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Broderick, Mick, Stuart Marshall Bender, and Tony McHugh. "Virtual Trauma: Prospects for Automediality." M/C Journal 21, no. 2 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1390.

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Unlike some current discourse on automediality, this essay eschews most of the analysis concerning the adoption or modification of avatars to deliberately enhance, extend or distort the self. Rather than the automedial enabling of alternative, virtual selves modified by playful, confronting or disarming avatars we concentrate instead on emerging efforts to present the self in hyper-realist, interactive modes. In doing so we ask, what is the relationship between traumatic forms of automediation and the affective impact on and response of the audience? We argue that, while on the one hand there

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Nolan, Huw, and Jo Coghlan. "Mutating a Better Man." M/C Journal 28, no. 2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3170.

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Introduction Michael Gracey's Better Man (2024) presents an innovative biographical representation of British pop star Robbie Williams through a radical visual strategy—depicting its subject as a CGI primate rather than through a human actor. Filmed in Australia and partially funded by the Australian Government, the film follows a relatively standard biopic narrative tracing Williams’s trajectory from his Stoke-on-Trent childhood through his tumultuous Take That tenure to solo stardom, mapping his struggles with addiction, familial relationships, and mental health crises. What distinguishes Be

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Watson, Robert. "E-Press and Oppress." M/C Journal 8, no. 2 (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2345.

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   From elephants to ABBA fans, silicon to hormone, the following discussion uses a new research method to look at printed text, motion pictures and a teenage rebel icon. If by ‘print’ we mean a mechanically reproduced impression of a cultural symbol in a medium, then printing has been with us since before microdot security prints were painted onto cars, before voice prints, laser prints, network servers, record pressings, motion picture prints, photo prints, colour woodblock prints, before books, textile prints, and footprints. If we accept that higher mammals such as elepha

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Mallan, Kerry Margaret, and Annette Patterson. "Present and Active: Digital Publishing in a Post-print Age." M/C Journal 11, no. 4 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.40.

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At one point in Victor Hugo’s novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the archdeacon, Claude Frollo, looked up from a book on his table to the edifice of the gothic cathedral, visible from his canon’s cell in the cloister of Notre Dame: “Alas!” he said, “this will kill that” (146). Frollo’s lament, that the book would destroy the edifice, captures the medieval cleric’s anxiety about the way in which Gutenberg’s print technology would become the new universal means for recording and communicating humanity’s ideas and artistic expression, replacing the grand monuments of architecture, human engineer

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Molnar, Tamas. "Spectre of the Past, Vision of the Future – Ritual, Reflexivity and the Hope for Renewal in Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s Climate Change Communication Film "Home"." M/C Journal 15, no. 3 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.496.

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About half way through Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s film Home (2009) the narrator describes the fall of the Rapa Nui, the indigenous people of the Easter Islands. The narrator posits that the Rapa Nui culture collapsed due to extensive environmental degradation brought about by large-scale deforestation. The Rapa Nui cut down their massive native forests to clear spaces for agriculture, to heat their dwellings, to build canoes and, most importantly, to move their enormous rock sculptures—the Moai. The disappearance of their forests led to island-wide soil erosion and the gradual disappearance of ara

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Coull, Kim. "Secret Fatalities and Liminalities: Translating the Pre-Verbal Trauma and Cellular Memory of Late Discovery Adoptee Illegitimacy." M/C Journal 17, no. 5 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.892.

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I was born illegitimate. Born on an existential precipice. My unwed mother was 36 years old when she relinquished me. I was the fourth baby she was required to give away. After I emerged blood stained and blue tinged – abject, liminal – not only did the nurses refuse me my mother’s touch, I also lost the sound of her voice. Her smell. Her heart beat. Her taste. Her gaze. The silence was multi-sensory. When they told her I was dead, I also lost, within her memory and imagination, my life. I was adopted soon after but not told for over four decades. It was too shameful for even me to know. Impri

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