...Julia Erhart Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1996 Picturing What If: Julie Dash's Speculative Fiction Julia Erhart The first feature-length film by an African-American woman to gain nationwide critical recognition as well as national theatrical release...

...Thomas Foster This essay analyzes a postcyberpunk science fiction story by Ted Chiang, an Asian American writer. The story speculates on the technological manipulation of visual perception through the direct modification of visual processing structures in the human brain. It focuses...

... of difference regulating human organization and politics are as temporary and as transient as all historical artifacts. Alterity-as-biopolitics is also, however, a kind of traumatic sign that persists across history, and its meaning is often concealed. The article concludes with speculation about cinema's...

... because of this, the postindustrial city is ubiquitous within the genres of scifi/speculative, fantasy, and horror cinema, appearing consistently as backdrop, symbol, animus, and even in some cases, character. Given the wide literature on horror film, haunting, and traumatic memory, this article suggests...

... aesthetic works together with the spatial dimensions of McMansions (single-family houses characterized by massive square footage totals) to generate a sense of fear with particular resonance for a contemporary culture characterized by financial speculation, increased privatization, and retrenchment...

... describes plastic's movement through the world and its durability. Accumulation asks for a reconsideration of political allies. Finally, nonfilial progeny offers a speculative intervention toward developing a feminist sense of responsibility for and relation to a future that is increasingly marked by loss...

... of “imaginary” archives produced by artists and critics in the past decade? Why the almost frantic proliferation of faked and fiction- alized archives, as in those of Walid Ra’ad’s Atlas Group Archive, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne’s Speculative Archive, and Camera Obscura’s current archival project?1...

... on the opening up of the self to speculation yet yields only a map, a representa- tion, an illusion of intimacy. We see the eye grotesquely enlarged 80 • Camera Obscura by a microscope lens; Stargher’s brain laid out in colored cross sections on an MRI screen; a graphic representation of the trans- fer...

... symptom, “lost no time in giving her a child.”1° Lacan asks of Anna O.’s hysterical pregnancy “What did she show by this? One may speculate but one must refrain from resorting too precipitously to the language of the body. Let us say simply that the domain of sexuality...

..., we encourage authors to invoke 184 Call for Submissions  •  185 a tone that veers between playful and rigorous, speculative and conclusive in order both to address their specific subjects and media and to experiment with form in a critical context. We...

... encourage authors to invoke 208 Call for Submissions  •  209 a tone that veers between playful and rigorous, speculative and conclusive in order both to address their specific subjects and media and to experiment with form in a critical context. We...

... to invoke a tone that veers between playful and rigorous, speculative and conclusive in 163 164  •  Camera Obscura order both to address their specific subjects and media and to exper- iment with form in a critical context. We will publish solicitations and open submissions, with the intention...

... to invoke a tone that veers between playful and rigorous, speculative and conclusive in 196 Call for Papers  •  197 order both to address their specific subjects and media and to exper- iment with form in a critical context. We will publish...

... to invoke a tone that veers between playful and rigorous, speculative and conclusive in 178 Call for Papers  •  179 order both to address their specific subjects and media and to experiment with form in a critical context. We will publish solicita...

..., we encourage authors to invoke a tone that veers between playful and rigorous, speculative and conclusive in 158 Call for Submissions  •  159 order both to address their specific subjects and media and to experiment with form in a critical context...

... to invoke a tone that veers between playful and rigorous, speculative and conclusive in 147 148  •  Camera Obscura order both to address their specific subjects and media and to experiment with form in a critical context. We will publish solicita- tions and open submissions, with the intention...

... encourage authors to invoke 195 196  •  Camera Obscura a tone that veers between playful and rigorous, speculative and conclusive in order both to address their specific subjects and media and to experiment with form in a critical context. We will publish solicitations and open submissions...

...- possible) narcissistic fiction. Returning for a moment to this idea of narcissism as a fiction, Borch-Jacobsen comments that the full origi- nality of Freud’s “speculation” is here, in the idea that narcissism appears in a “crossed-out” form (IOl), as fiction, mediated...

... Rio, Elena The Body as Foundation of the Screen: Allegories of technology in Atom Egoyan's Speaking Parts. No 38; pp. 93-116. Erhart, Julia Picturing What If: Julie Dash's Speculative Fiction. No 38; pp. 117-132. Farocki, Harun and Kaja Silverman...

... (2006) and founding coeditor of Transformative Works and Cultures . Alexis Lothian is completing her dissertation in the English department at the University of Southern California. She works on queer temporality, speculative fiction, and fan communities' transformative modes of digital...