Contributors: In Space, No One Can Hear Them Scream x
Introduction: A Word of Warning 1
I Identity and Moral Considerability: "We Made You Because We Could" 5
1 "No Man Needs Nothing": The Possibility of Androids as Lockean Persons in Alien and Prometheus 7
Chris Lay
2 Androids: Artificial Persons or Glorified Toasters? 17
Joe Slater
3 "All Other Priorities Are Rescinded": The Moral Status of Employees in the Alien Franchise 25
James M. Okapal
II Ethics: "I Don't Know Which Species is Worse" 37
4 Disposable Assets: Weyland?]Yutani's Special Brew of Business Ethics 39
Bruno de Brito Serra
5 Corporate Greed and Alien/ation: Marx vs. Weyland?]Yutani 48
Alejandro Barcenas
6 The Public and its Alien Problem 55
David Denneny
7 Cross My Heart and Hope to Die: Why Ripley Must Save Newt 67
William A. Lindenmuth
III Moral Psychology: "Unclouded by Conscience, Remorse, or Delusions of Mortality" 81
8 Nuking the Colony to Save It: Colonial Marines and Just Wars 83
Louis Melançon
9 Xenomorphs and the Benefits of Exposure to Violence as Education 93
Adam Barkman and Sabina Tokbergenova
10 Alien, Alienation, and Alien Nation 101
Daniel Conway
IV Horror: "They Mostly Come at Night" 115
11 Terror from the Stars: Alien as Lovecraftian Horror 117
Greg Littmann
12 Art?]Horror Environments and the Alien Series 132
Martin Glick
13 Contagion: Impurity, Mental Illness, and Suicide in Alien3 140
Kevin S. Decker
V Sex and Gender: "None of Them Have Seen a Woman in Years" 153
Andrea Zanin
15 Is Ellen Ripley a Feminist? 166
Alexander Christian
16 Alien Violation: Male Bodily Integrity in an Equal Opportunity Rape Culture 178
Tim Jones
VI Continental Philosophy: "I'm the Monster's Mother" 187
17 The Alien as Übermensch: Overcoming Morality in Order to Become the Perfect Killer 189
Robert M. Mentyka
18 "Why Do You Go On Living?" Ripley?]8 and the Absurd 198
Seth M. Walker
19 God Save the Xenomorph Queen: Defending Xenomorph Self?]Defense 207
Jeffrey Ewing
Index 216
