Contributors: Hosts and Guests viii
Acknowledgments: "Figuring out how it all works" xv
Introduction: Taking Sides in Westworld 1
Part I "You Said This Place Was a Game" 3
1 On Playing Cowboys and Indians 5
Don Fallis
2 A Special Kind of Game 15
Nicholas Moll
3 Humans and Hosts in Westworld 26
Marcus Arvan
Part II "You're Only Human, After All" 39
4 Crossing the Uncanny Valley 41
Siobhan Lyons
5 Revealing Your Deepest Self 50
Jason T. Eberl
6 Westworld 61
Onni Hirvonen
Part III "We Can't Define Consciousness Because
Consciousness Does Not Exist" 71
7 Turing's Dream and Searle's Nightmare in Westworld 73
Lucia Carrillo Gonzalez
8 What Is it like to Be a Host? 79
Bradley Richards
9 Does the Piano Play Itself? 90
Michael Versteeg and Adam Barkman
Part IV "Choices Hanging in the Air Like Ghosts" 103
10 Maeve's Dilemma: What Does it Mean to be Free? 105
Marco Antonio Azevedo and Ana Azevedo
11 "A Place to Be Free" 114
Joshua D. Crabill
12 From William to the Man in Black 125
Kimberly S. Engels
Part V "I've Always Loved a Great Story...Lies That Told a Deeper Truth" 137
13 Hideous Fictions and Horrific Fates 139
Madeline Muntersbjorn
14 Narrating Gender, Gendering Narrative, and Engendering
Wittgenstein's "Rough Ground" in Westworld 150
Lizzie Finnegan
15 The Observer(s) System and the Semiotics of Virtuality in Westworld's Characters 162
Patricia Trapero?]Llobera
16 What Does Bernard Dream About When He Dreams About His Son? 173
Oliver Lean
Part VI "I Choose to See the Beauty" 183
17 The Dueling Productions of Westworld: Self?]Referential Art or Meta?]Kitsch? 185
Michael Forest and Thomas Beckley?]Forest
18 Beauty, Dominance, Humanity: Three Takes on Nudity in Westworld 196
Matthew Meyer
19 Sci?]Fi Western or Ancient Greek Tragedy? 206
Caterina Ludovica Baldini
Part VII "You Can't play God Without Being Acquainted With the Devil" 217
20 Of Hosts and Men 219
François Jaquet and Florian Cova
21 Violent Births 229
Anthony Petros Spanakos
22 The Wretched of Westworld 239
Dan Dinello
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