This weekend, I was at a succesful conference in Copenhagen, on the subject of “The Word Becoming Flesh”. It was organized by Circle 4 at Nordisk Sommer Universitet. I’m posting my talk here, after the cut. Right here, however, are the slides.
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The situation is quite different in Shelley Jackson’s hypertext Patchwork Girl, which does not partake in the device of the alien but instead casts identity differently. Identity is explicitly regarded as being constructed, hence the invocation of patchwork. Furthermore, the text itself is regarded as a patchwork constructed from a number of texts, all of […]
A few quotes from Kochar-Lindgren’s excellent book on technologics, cyborgs and the posthuman. The book is challenging, but well-worth the read.
In this chapter, I will examine a change which has occurred in cultural theory within these last twenty or so years; metaphors and concepts from the science fiction genre (sf) has to an increasing extent turned up in order to express occurrences in contemporary culture. Generally, these concepts are used to turn events into facts, […]
My name is Steen Christiansen, and I'm an assistant professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. I'm working on transgressive aesthetics and the fields of cultural studies, film and science fiction.
I'm also interested in things that aren't, such as ghosts, dust, shadows, holes and so forth.
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