Tongues without Bodies: The Wachowskis’ Sense8

Sense8 marks a number of televisual “firsts” in the circulation of trans* as an increasingly transnational and translingual identity category. It is not only the first television program to feature a transgender character written/directed by trans creators and acted by a trans performer, but it also attempts to visualize a global imaginary in thrilling new ways that revolutionize both the temporality and spatiality of televisual production. In this review, Cáel M. Keegan analyzes Sense8 as a text that simultaneously represents and replicates the conditions of hypermodern globality, discussing how the lingual politics of Sense8 strain against and yet partially reproduce the conditions of the (neo)colonial encounter.