Symposium June 2021

The essay explores whether, a text like Gun Island manifests a sense of revival of supressed cultural traditions as a reproach towards Eurocentric humanism.

If our posthuman train has already left the station, how do we recognize plural formations of posthuman flourishing that reciprocally impact our shared ecosystems?

While critically reading Gandhi’s perspectives, the paper will focus mainly on his perspectives on the untouchables, one of the most affected caste-classes of India in this epoch, to see how their past and contemporary existences themselves are one of the many ‘symbolic’ representations of the causes of the Anthropocene.

Physicist and Professor Vandana Singh’s Speculative Fiction Indra’s Web foregrounds alternative templates of the future with a fervent critique of the man-made transgressions that have rocked the current geological era.…