Shell Shock Cinema explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic
was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the the devastating effects of the nation's …

The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze illuminates the connection
between the stories people tell, their expectations of what a robot is, and how these beliefs …

Isaac Asimov, the well-known author of novels that featured positronic robots, also penned
tales featuring Multivac, an immense electronic brain that grappled with the weighty and …

Philip K. Dick takes the highly computerized but ruined Los Angeles of the United States
after the post-apocalyptic war as the background and brings the cyberspace struggle …

Neuroscience and neurotechnology are increasingly being employed to assess and alter
cognition, emotions, and behaviors, and the knowledge and implications of neuroscience …

This essay explores the development of media and visual culture studies in the larger
context of American Studies in Germany. Even though research on media related topics and …

The new millennium has witnessed a staggering outpouring of literature, film and art which
depict dystopian and post-apocalyptic societies. These stories have come in the form of …

When Fons Elders opened the Chomsky Foucault debate on human nature in 1971, he
compared the philosophers to tunnellers carving away at opposite sides of a mountain (cf …

Our title is a somewhat arbitrary variation on Philip K. Dick's (1968) novel, Do Androids
Dream of Electric Sheep? Yet, it is no glib retort. It occurred to us that the possibility or …

When Fons Elders opened the Chomsky Foucault debate on human nature in 1971, he
compared the philosophers to tunnellers carving away at opposite sides of a mountain (cf …