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…
Ranjit Dutta Under Graduate Student, Bhatter College, Dantan Airplanes in the sky Ships on the water. Will be created by me – Shoes flying in the wind! He will take me far away. Everyone told me, Something like that is probably crazy! Strong is my image, One day it will happen…
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…
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…
Priyanka Paul M.A in English, The Sanskrit College and University Abstract Fiction always includes an empty page with it, on which readers can freely draw any creation of their own. Categorizing any novel into a genre determines our thoughts and imaginations. But the rejection of genre and breaking the boundary is an amazing pursuit. The…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…