Indigenous Posthumans: Cyberpunk Surgeries and Biotech Boarding Schools in File Under Miscellaneous and SyFy's Helix. Issue 1 (2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Indigenous Posthumans: Cyberpunk Surgeries and Biotech Boarding Schools in File Under Miscellaneous and SyFy's Helix. Issue 1 (2016)
- Main Title:
- Indigenous Posthumans
- Authors:
- Attebery, Stina
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Jeff Barnaby's (Mi'gMaq) film File Under Miscellaneous and the SyFy series Helix connect Indigenous apocalypse to forms of biomedical posthumanism, bringing together Achille Mbembe's necropolitics of the colony with Gerald Vizenor's concept of survivance. Both Vizenor and Mbembe imagine ways that colonized subjects could fight back when they are "kept alive but in a state of injury "—a description originally referring to slavery, but which I use for Indigenous experimental subjects. By replacing survival with human enhancement, these texts transform Mbembe's interrelated categories of martyrdom and survival into zombie posthumanism and transhumanism, developing Indigenous posthumanism as a third option through this dialectic.
- Is Part Of:
- Extrapolation. Volume 57:Issue 1/2(2016)
- Journal:
- Extrapolation
- Issue:
- Volume 57:Issue 1/2(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 57, Issue 1/2 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 57
- Issue:
- 1/2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0057-NaN-0000
- Page Start:
- 95
- Page End:
- 116
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Subjects:
- Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
Science fiction -- Bibliography -- Periodicals
Science fiction
Bibliography
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Periodicals
809.38762 - Journal URLs:
- http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/loi/extr ↗
http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/122345/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.3828/extr.2016.7 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0014-5483
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- Legaldeposit
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