Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the
history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an …

In Fictions of Land and Flesh Mark Rifkin explores the impasses that arise in seeking to
connect Black and Indigenous movements, turning to speculative fiction to understand those …

" I began writing about power because I had so little," Octavia E. Butler once said. Butler's life
as an African American woman--an alien in American society and among science fiction …

The Precision Medicine Initiative, Apple's HealthKit, the FitBit—the booming digital health
industry asserts that digital networks, tools, and the scientific endeavors they support will …

Personal genome testing, gene editing for life-threatening diseases, synthetic life: once the
stuff of science fiction, twentieth-and twenty-first-century advancements blur the lines …

Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism
develops the theoretical perspective of environmental posthumanism through analyses of …

Winner, 2023 CCCC Exemplar Award Writing and Desire is a sustained, multimovement
exploration of how writers, particularly queer writers, think and feel through desire as central …

This article interrogates some of the impulses of transhumanism, whose utopian vision
adheres to genetic essentialism and pursues eugenics for radical human alteration. While …

In his analysis of Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy, Jenkins addresses an issue that the
scholarship on the trilogy has tended to overlook—Butler's distinction between …

Alien encounter, one of the most popular themes in sf since HG Wells's War of the Worlds, is
paradigmatically undergirded by a telos of preserving human autonomy (Malmgren 1991). In …