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Kathryn Allan completed her PhD (English) at McMaster University in 2010. Her doctoral thesis, Bleeding Chrome: Technology and the Vulnerable Body in Feminist Post-Cyberpunk Science Fiction, is awesome. She is currently self-employed and in love with all things science fiction.
Programming for Kathryn Allan
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| Sat | 11:00 | (A17) | 1 hr |
Technology as Cure? Virtuality, Proxies, and Vulnerable Human Body
Dr. Allan examines the ways in which gendered, raced, and disabled bodies are simultaneously enhanced and exploited through virtual reality and telepresence technologies in feminist post-cyberpunk fiction such as Tricia Sullivan’s Maul (2003) and Laura Mixon’s Proxies (1999) and what these texts suggest is the defining trait of what constitutes a human being. |