Globalization and Planetary Ethics

This volume is a critical investigation into the contemporary phenomenon of the dissensus of the globe and the planet, and the new terrains of consciousness that need to be negotiated towards a possibility for transformation.

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Simi Malhotra is Professor and Head, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. Her latest publications are the edited books Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation and Inhabiting Cyberspace in India: Theory, Perspectives and Challenges, (both 2021, Springer), and the co-authored books Terrains of Consciousness: Multilogical Perspectives on Globalization, (2021, Würzburg University Press), and Ocean as Method: Thinking With The Maritime (2022, Routledge).

Shraddha A. Singh is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi, India. She works on literary theory and genre fiction with a special interest in Margaret Atwood's oeuvre. She has worked on international projects, has several publications and has presented papers at national and international seminars and conferences. Her latest publication is titled Speculation and Detection: Explorations in Genre Fiction (2022, Worldview Publications). She is a published bilingual poet and has read her poetry at the Sahitya Akademi (Indian Academy of Letters).

Zahra Rizvi is a PhD scholar and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, and works in the fields of cultural studies, utopia/dystopia studies, digital humanities, and game studies. She is co-founder of the Indian chapter of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) and is a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Fellow at Yale University. She was recently Ministry of Education-SPARC Fellow in Digital Humanities at Michigan State University, and Electronic Literature Organization Fellow 2022. She has delivered lectures at Michigan State University, Jamia Millia Islamia, and Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. Her work has been published in several online and print journals.

Inhalt

List of Contributors xi

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction 1

SIMI MALHOTRA, SHRADDHA A. SINGH, AND ZAHRA RIZVI

PART I

Dissonance and Us 9

1 Portal, the Front, Wound: Three Metaphors to Explore the Planetary Crisis 11

JOFF P. N. BRADLEY

2 Philosophical Posthumanism and Planetary Concerns 29

FRANCESCA FERRANDO AND SHRADDHA A. SINGH

3 Move Over, Mona Lisa. Move Over, Jane Eyre: Disrupting the Cultural and Intellectual Inequality Pipeline 37

PEGGY LEVITT

4 Rethinking Metaphorical and Bodily Movement through Nomadic Subjectivity and Identity 50

VENYA PATEL

5 To Dream Again: Thoughts on Island Soundscapes and Environmentalism 65

PRIYA PARROTTA NATARAJAN

PART II

Discord, Dystopias, and Utopias 77

6 Becoming Utopian in a Threatened Order 79

TOM MOYLAN

7 Exploring Dystopic Spatialities of Game(re)play: A Study of Papers, Please and Orwell 93

ZAHRA RIZVI

8 Seeking a World of Their Own: Looking for 'Human' Rights in a Mechanized, Futuristic World 105

ARPITA SEN

9 Re-Orienting Reading: Ergodic Form of Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions 120

AINEE BASIR

PART III

Disparity and Speculative Overtures 131

10 An Open Letter from Rattus Norvegicus to New York City 133

RADHIKA SUBRAMANIAM

11 "As Told to": The Mediation of Refugee Voices in

Contemporary Short Fiction 143

MIRIAM WALLRAVEN

12 "I Am Also a We": Pathic Communities and the Globalization of Affect in the Wachowskis' Sense8 154

PAROMITA PATRANOBISH

13 Re-inscribing the World: Reflections on Sense-Making and Navigating the Networks of Global Capitalism 170

INDRANI DAS GUPTA

Index 187