Volume 5, Number 1, 2023

Editorial Introduction: Themed Issue on “Futuristic Epistemology and Scientific Dimensions: Neo-perspectives in Science Fiction” Niladri Mahapatra and Akasdip Dey Full Text HTML Interview “Science Fiction, Posthumanism and Nonhuman Animals”: An Interface with Dr. Subhadeep Paul Niladri Mahapatra Full Text HTML Articles Looking Backward at and Forward from the Novum: Friendly or Inimical to Life Darko…

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Influence

Pragya Gautam Renowned Writer & Lecturer, Govt. Senior Sec. School (Rajasthan, India), Email: pragyamaitrey@gmail.com Translated by: Kshama Gautam   It was morning. Icey had arranged breakfast on the dining table. I came to the table for breakfast as soon as she informed me. Mom washed her hands, removed her apron and sat beside me. We…

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Science Fiction beyond Modern Periphery: A Postmodern Reading of The Hungry Septopus

Aminul Islam Molla Independent Researcher, English M.A., University of Calcutta Abstract Satyajit Ray was famous for incorporating dichotomous spectacles on the screen, which he has done with his literary writings as well. The Hungry Septopus is a story in which humanistic behaviours are attributed to a plant called Septopus. This paper is, thus, engaged in…

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Representation of Biopolitics and Climate Change Crises in Prayaag Akbar’s Leila

Sankha Shubhra Mandal Independent Researcher Abstract Biopolitics, as conceptualized by Mitchell Foucault, deals with the sovereign’s regulation of population or man as a biological species. With the increasing climate change and shortage of natural resources in the anthropocene,  biopolitics has become a pivotal factor in the organization of a nation state. Prayaag Akbar sets the…

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The Scientification of Science Fiction: A Study of the Truth of Posthuman Ontology in Fictionalized Science with Scientific Epistemology

Niladri Mahapatra State Aided College Teacher, Dept. of English, Bhatter College, Dantan, West Bengal, India Abstract Though science fiction is a fictitious narration about posthuman possibilities, it has the dialectic of science; and the verisimilitude of this narrative structure has radical base to vaticinate the ameliorated techno-science and the posthuman shift. For example, H. G….

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Manipulating Memory in Science Fictional Imaginary: Reading Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Ria Banerjee State Aided College Teacher, Dept. of English, Prafulla Chandra College, Kolkata Abstract The ubiquitous presence of technoculture has revamped the science fictional imaginary from being a genre that valorises spectacle to an epistemological category of multiple possibilities. The intervention of posthumanism only aggravates, if not feeds into, science fiction’s engagement with the ethical…

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Science Fiction and Its Presentation in Dystopia: An Analytical Study of Few Science Fictional Dystopian Texts

Shibasambhu Nandi Research Scholar, Dept. of English, Central University of Rajasthan Abstract Science fiction, which is sometimes regarded as a microcosm of all fictional writing, aims to convey fiction both impossibly and realistically. It makes an effort to describe new and forthcoming events in an approachable manner while also explaining existing things in a defamiliarized…

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Can the Horror of Technological Singularity be the Critique of Enlightenment? Detangling the Different Forms of Horror and Hyperrealism of the Uncanny Valley in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

Sindhura Dutta PhD Scholar, Bankura University Abstract Humans may live in their post-humanized embrace of the “other”, but technology cannot become the humanized “self”. Even if technology becomes the self, this phenomenon is headed for technological singularity, as Stephen Hawkins has warned us. Horror is generated through robotics and androids firstly by the trespassing of…

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The Time Travelling Custodian: Exploring Possibilities of Time Travel in Tulku Lineage of Buddhism

Tenzin Nyima Bhutia M.Phill Scholar, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India Abstract A tulku is a reincarnate guardian of a specific lineage of Tibetan Buddhist teachings. The procedure for determining the next custodian is based on extensive search and prophecy speculations made by the previous one. As such, the Karmapa of the Kagyu Sect, one of Tibetan…

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