-human technological (both physical and virtual) artifacts” ( Kim 2017: 235 ). In Lu Yang's strange posthuman universe, identities are not fixed but mutable, and they are mediated by new technologies. If posthumanism can be generally described as a reaction to humanism
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Queer Sinofuturism
The Aberrant Movements and Posthumanist Mutations of Body, Identity, and Matter in Lu Yang's Uterus Man
Gabriel Remy-Handfield
Tru Leverette and Barbara Mennel
Diesel, and Dwayne Johnson) demonstrate struggles over collective identities, and Asava reiterates what scholars such as Suzanne Bost (2003) have argued—namely, that the mixed figure also represents social crises over racial and national identity
Handover Bodies in a Feminist Frame
Two Hong Kong Women Filmmakers’ Perspectives on Sex after 1997
Gina Marchetti
. Hong Kong bodies serve as somatic markers of this geopolitical transition through the shaping of their outward appearances, physical locations, erotic expressions, and sexual identities. Cinematic depictions of these post-1997 Handover bodies as
Transitions Within Queer North African Cinema
Nouri Bouzid, Abdellah Taïa, and the Transnational Tourist
Walter S. Temple
University Press . 10.7312/boon15110 Lang , Robert . 2008 . “ Sexual Allegories of National Identity in Nouri Bouzid’s Bezness .” In North African Cinema in a Global Context: Through the Lens of Diaspora , ed. Andrea Khalil , 33 – 52 . London
Redefining Representation
Black Trans and Queer Women’s Digital Media Production
Moya Bailey
on queer of color media production and artistic movements from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, younger voices are creating innovative web series, visibility projects, and funding initiatives that reimagine mainstream narratives about their identities
Steven Eastwood
schizoanalysis, I suggest that cinemautism might be adopted as a strategy for overthrowing the regulatory practices of cinema much in the way that schizoanalysis mounted an assault on the hegemony of psychoanalysis and the notion of uniform identity
Jane M. Kubiesa, Looi van Kessel, Frank Jacob, Robert Wood, and Paul Gordon Kramer
and television time, which constitutes its viewers’ social time. The changing and intersecting narratives that constituted gay identities in the 1970s—which, as she argues along with Eve Sedgwick, were centered on the narrative of “coming out” (96
Peter Lurie, Antonio Sanna, Hansen Hsu, Ella Houston, and Kristof van Baarle
stasis (the fixity of an identity racialized as black). The Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa figures prominently in Maurice’s discussion of the transition period from single-shot, non-narrative “attractions” to multi-shot films that evolved into narrative
Voicing Pride and Futurity in the Age of A.I.
An Interview with Playwright Pao-Chang Tsai on Solo Date
Jing Chen and Pao-Chang Tsai
hopes of meeting Alain's ghost in the underworld. The futility of Ho Nien's endeavors are revealed, however, when he learns his own surprising true identity: Ho Nien is actually himself an A.I. robot (also known as B46098) that is being used to model and
The New Imitation Game
The Queer Sinitic Potentialities of Internet Romance Games
Carlos Rojas
a standard view not only of “Chinese” society, but also of Sinocentric contemporary Taiwanese society. More generally, in addition to complicating assumptions about cultural, ethnic, and national identity, Nekojishi simultaneously crosses a