Globalization and Planetary Ethics

List of Contributors xi

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction 1

SIMI MALHOTRA, SHRADDHA A. SINGH, AND ZAHRA RIZVI

PART I

Dissonance and Us 9

1 Portal, the Front, Wound: Three Metaphors to Explore the Planetary Crisis 11

JOFF P. N. BRADLEY

2 Philosophical Posthumanism and Planetary Concerns 29

FRANCESCA FERRANDO AND SHRADDHA A. SINGH

3 Move Over, Mona Lisa. Move Over, Jane Eyre: Disrupting the Cultural and Intellectual Inequality Pipeline 37

PEGGY LEVITT

4 Rethinking Metaphorical and Bodily Movement through Nomadic Subjectivity and Identity 50

VENYA PATEL

5 To Dream Again: Thoughts on Island Soundscapes and Environmentalism 65

PRIYA PARROTTA NATARAJAN

PART II

Discord, Dystopias, and Utopias 77

6 Becoming Utopian in a Threatened Order 79

TOM MOYLAN

7 Exploring Dystopic Spatialities of Game(re)play: A Study of Papers, Please and Orwell 93

ZAHRA RIZVI

8 Seeking a World of Their Own: Looking for âHumanâ Rights in a Mechanized, Futuristic World 105

ARPITA SEN

9 Re-Orienting Reading: Ergodic Form of Mark Z. Danielewskiâs Only Revolutions 120

AINEE BASIR

PART III

Disparity and Speculative Overtures 131

10 An Open Letter from Rattus Norvegicus to New York City 133

RADHIKA SUBRAMANIAM

11 âAs Told toâ: The Mediation of Refugee Voices in

Contemporary Short Fiction 143

MIRIAM WALLRAVEN

12 âI Am Also a Weâ: Pathic Communities and the Globalization of Affect in the Wachowskisâ Sense8 154

PAROMITA PATRANOBISH

13 Re-inscribing the World: Reflections on Sense-Making and Navigating the Networks of Global Capitalism 170

INDRANI DAS GUPTA

Index 187