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The Distinguished Eleanor H. Boheim Lecture
Human as Alien: From Frankenstein to Ex Machina and Annihilation

presented by Dr. N. Katherine Hayles, 2018-19 AMUW Women's Chair in Humanistic Studies

Wednesday, Nov. 14

5:30 p.m. Registration
6:00 p.m. Lecture
Reception to follow
Raynor Memorial Libraries
Beaumier Suites
1335 W. Wisconsin Ave., Marquette University campus

The enduring appeal of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein speaks to our fascination with human-nonhuman distinctions and the boundaries between human from alien. Frankenstein's creature defies clear categorization as either human or non-human; this ambiguity leads to its uncanniness. Alex Garland's Ex Machina explores the qualities that make the android a creature poised between the human and the alien. In Annihilation, a film also written and directed by Garland and based on a novel by Jeff VanderMeer, the human-nonhuman ambiguity manifests in an alien presence's intervention in biological DNA. The film's conclusion suggests that human and alien have fused to create new, indescribable beings. These contemporary versions of Frankenstein's project gesture toward a future in which "human" is only the beginning of intelligent life on earth, giving way to successors in which the human and alien are inextricably entwined.

Direct any questions or special needs to Adrienne Roche at adrienne.roche@marquette.edu or (414) 288-1534.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 5:30 PM
 
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