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Female Cyborgs, Gender Performance, and Utopian Gaze in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina
2020
The cyborg as a metaphor for cultural encodings of the interaction between humans and technology has been an accepted trope since the publication of Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto.” Alex Garland’s 2015 film Ex Machina shares many of its key themes and motifs with earlier science fiction films, from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. A first viewing of the film thus suggests an interpretation that focuses on the film’s portrayal of its female cyborgs Ava and Kyoko as another version of the “pleasure model” in the mode of Lang’s Maria or Scott’s Pris. However, it is the tension between Ava’s intelligence and visual attractiveness and her performance of a female gender …
Ghosts from the Abyss. The imagination of new worlds in the sea-narratives of Afrofuturism
2022
This contribution aims to investigate a different ghostscape, shaped by the turbulent materiality of the sea: the abyss. A space of trauma and simultaneously of becoming, it is populated by spectral objects, traces, fragments, and, above all, ghosts. Looking into the abyss through the turbulent materiality of the sea (where the turbulence recalls Haraway’s trouble and the materiality a livingness of the world in which “matter comes to matter”), sea-related ghosts from the Black Atlantic to the Black Mediterranean emerge as absences-presences that matter. The emersion of sea-related new worlds is one of the main topics of Afrofuturism narratives: from the Drexciya world to the Novella The De…
Recensione Femminismi futuri
2020
Book Review: Future Feminisms: Theories | Poetics | Fabulations, edited by Lidia Curti, Iacobelli Editore, 2019. Feminisms Future is a text that offers a cartography of contemporary feminist discourses projected into the future, which critically question themselves by tracing possible trajectories.
Jatkuvuutta, kumppanuutta ja pervoa biopolitiikkaa hankalassa maailmassa
2018
The Myth of Io and Female Cyborgic Identity
2020
The figure of Io, the priestess of Hera seducted by Zeus and turned into a cow that wanders from Argo to Egypt pursued by a gadfly, shares in Hera’s bovine imagery and can be considered as a mythical paradigm of the unavoidable ‘yoke’ of love and marriage for women. She actually takes back a fully human aspect by means of conceiving and bearing Epaphus, a son with a name that tells his exceptional conception and divine birth. In the light of readings of some core studies concerning the theory of the cyborg, this paper aims at showing that the girl-heifer – sometimes also represented as a girl-bull, a possible link with Dionysus as hypostasis of sexual potency and fertility – does not only u…
Riflessioni e traiettorie di ricerca interdisciplinari sulla transizione digitale
2022
The contribution introduces the topic covered by vol. 12 of AGATHÓN through essays, studies, research and projects on Innovability©® | Digital Transition to investigate the current widespread transformation that unites dichotomies (analogue and digital), enhances oxymorons (artificial intelligence), creates paradoxes (materiality of the intangible), while indiscriminately involving architecture, humanities and social sciences, anthropology, sociology, ecology, biology, physical-mathematical sciences and neurosciences, with impacts that – while already visible today and accelerated in part by the extraordinary global health emergency – will become even more evident in the medium and long ter…
Narrazioni dagli interstizi. Lidia Curti e le fabulazioni dei femminismi
2021
On 21 April 2021 Lidia Curti left us. One of the first to develop cultural and postcolonial studies in Italy, a central voice in feminist and gender studies, a tireless scholar, Lidia Curti was a fundamental figure for all of us. In this article, through three of her key texts, I retrace the leitmotiv of women’s writing of living ‘between’ the interstices in the light of Donna Haraway’s FS figurations, and the postcolonial and feminist method of the listening position and of ‘speaking nearby’ against the powers of ventriloquism.