Transparent Subjects: Digital Identity in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Charlie Brooker's "Be Right Back".
In the twenty-first century, when we interact with corporeal and digital identities alternately, we need to examine whether the distinction between them makes sense anymore. This paper argues that re-reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein alongside a contemporary reinterpretation, the episode "Be Right...
| Published in: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 308 - 325 |
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