El teléfono, el motor de explosión y las perforadoras son descubrimientos prodigiosos, pero que hubieran sido imposibles si hace veinte
Category: Assignment 4
Live session 2 [Recording]
The second live session is now starting. You now have two options, but we highly recommend the first one: Participate

The Birth of the Unwanted Posthuman
The above still is the baby from Lynch’s movie with the fitting title “Eraserhead” (1977). The first scene is set on the

Orphan Black: Otherness and the Ethics of Science
Orphan Black is a series that deals with and explores the ethics and morality of human cloning. This is done

The Wind of Change
The children’s novel The Wind in the Willows from 1908 by Kenneth Grahame does not seem like a very obvious

An exclusionary humanity
In the Belgian cartoonist Hergés Tintin in the Congo (1931) Tintin is a reporter sent to the Belgian colony Congo to

“We pay taxes, we deserve basic civil rights” – The human/vampire division in True Blood
True Blood draws from the gothic genre to reflect on various social problems. The series brings the ancient figure of the

Human uncertainty
In the realm of fiction, there are many examples of a divided humanity and that point out to how fiction

A satirical recall regarding the humanistic visualization of unity
The wonderfully weird and wicked satirical TV-series Rick and Morty follows the far-out intergalactic adventures of rogue and borderline sociopathic genius Rick

The Techno-Deities of Roger Zelazny’s “Lord of Light”
Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves