A sample from vol. 1 issue 1:
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Rebecca Raphael , The Doomsday Body, or Dr. Strangelove as Disabled Cyborg
Abstract: This paper analyzes Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick 1964) as a 20 th Century apocalypse in which human-machine mixture provides the central dualism. Unlike ancient apocalypses, however, the film does not attribute good or evil to either pole of its central dualism. Instead, the conflicting desires for purity, General Ripper’s for organic and the Soviet’s for mechanical, drive the action to global thermonuclear war. Using cyborg, disability, and monster theory, the paper situates the character Dr. Strangelove as the film’s central monster, for he embodies human-machine hybridity and other elements abjected from the liberal-democratic ideal.
Abstract: This paper analyzes Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick 1964) as a 20 th Century apocalypse in which human-machine mixture provides the central dualism. Unlike ancient apocalypses, however, the film does not attribute good or evil to either pole of its central dualism. Instead, the conflicting desires for purity, General Ripper’s for organic and the Soviet’s for mechanical, drive the action to global thermonuclear war. Using cyborg, disability, and monster theory, the paper situates the character Dr. Strangelove as the film’s central monster, for he embodies human-machine hybridity and other elements abjected from the liberal-democratic ideal.