Author: Julian Di Prima
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portfolio
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an extensive review of all my articles, and the role they played into my research progress throughout the year.
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literature review
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a posthumanist-based overview of the main theoretical texts for my thesis, in relation to the works of fiction that will be analysed throughout.
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textualities 2025
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a four-phase look at my participation in (and organisation of) the textualities conference.
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barbenheimer: a guide to selling bombs and feminism
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a reflection on julia empey’s seminar, “american prometheus/american pandora: barbenheimer and capitalist vacancies” and on an anti-capitalist critique of the barbenheimer phenomenon.
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the digital gothic II: madwomen in the attic
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adding to my theory of the digital gothic, i examine the trope of the madwoman in the attic through the figure of olympia in e. t. hoffman’s “the sandman” (1817) and alex garland’s “ex machina” (2014)
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the digital gothic I: when the ghost is a machine
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a study of the digital gothic in black mirror’s “be right back” (2013) and alex garland’s “ex machina” (2014) portray elements of the traditional gothic embued with modern aspects, which maintain the genre ever-relevant in our age.
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female subservience and Artificial intelligence
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a look at how narratives about female ai can challenge and overturn ideas of male ownership and control in alex garland’s “ex machina” (2014) and drew hancock’s “companion” (2025)
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modernist storytelling and queered timelines
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an analysis of how queerness shapes time and its perception, based on a posthumanist reading of stephen daldry’s 2002 film, “the hours” and josé esteban muñoz’s “cruising utopia”.
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que se vayan ellos: postcolonialism in bad bunny’s new album
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a review and analysis of postcolonial themes in bad bunny’s “debí tirar más fotos” (2025)
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“the glorious evolution”: moving between ableism and transhumanism in arcane
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an analysis of transhumanist themes explored in the second season of the tv show arcane, and how they intersect with issues of ableism and disability theory.