‘What If?’: Reading Replacing in/as (Contemporary, Chinese, Science) Fiction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. Preamble: Why Replacement? 1
5. Introduction: Replaceability and the Politics of the Paradigm 13
6. Signs and Semiotics
7. Ir/Replaceability, Il/Literacy and the Decolonization of the Alphabet: The Lessons of Arrival 31
8. Environmental Pareidolia: Computer Vision and the Replacement of the Unpredictable 49
9. ‘What If?’: Reading Replacing in/as (Contemporary, Chinese, Science) Fiction 69
10. Subject to Replacement
11. Old Soles and Rotting Bananas: How to Grieve what we Replace? 91
12. The Ir/Replaceability of the Witness-Perpetrator in Salomé Lamas’s No Man’s Land 111
13. The Ir/Replaceable and “Walking in the Rays of a Beautiful Sun”: Dante Alighieri’s and Aimé Césaire’s Deployments of the Solar 131
14. From Stage to Screen: A Feminist Aesthetic Approach to Samuel Beckett’s Not I on Television 157
15. Psyche and Sacrifice
16. Puppets and People, from Kleist to Stelarc 173
17. A Poetics of Ersatz: Ersatzbildung in Freud and Hoffmann 191
18. Sacrificial Animals and their Placeholders: Symbolic Irreplaceability in Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s “Das Gespräch über Gedichte” 209
19. Coda
20. Modernity’s Irreplaceability: Data, Derivatives, and the Fungibility of the Flesh 227
21. About the Contributors 245
22. Index 247