Globalization and Planetary Ethics

Simi Malhotra is Professor and Head, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. Her latest publications are the edited books Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation and Inhabiting Cyberspace in India: Theory, Perspectives and Challenges, (both 2021, Springer), and the co-authored books Terrains of Consciousness: Multilogical Perspectives on Globalization, (2021, Würzburg University Press), and Ocean as Method: Thinking With The Maritime (2022, Routledge).Shraddha A. Singh is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi, India. She works on literary theory and genre fiction with a special interest in Margaret Atwood’s oeuvre. She has worked on international projects, has several publications and has presented papers at national and international seminars and conferences. Her latest publication is titled Speculation and Detection: Explorations in Genre Fiction (2022, Worldview Publications). She is a published bilingual poet and has read her poetry at the Sahitya Akademi (Indian Academy of Letters).Zahra Rizvi is a PhD scholar and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, and works in the fields of cultural studies, utopia/dystopia studies, digital humanities, and game studies. She is co-founder of the Indian chapter of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) and is a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Fellow at Yale University. She was recently Ministry of Education-SPARC Fellow in Digital Humanities at Michigan State University, and Electronic Literature Organization Fellow 2022. She has delivered lectures at Michigan State University, Jamia Millia Islamia, and Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. Her work has been published in several online and print journals.

• List of Contributors xiAcknowledgments xvIntroduction 1SIMI MALHOTRA, SHRADDHA A. SINGH, AND ZAHRA RIZVIPART IDissonance and Us 91 Portal, the Front, Wound: Three Metaphors to Explore the Planetary Crisis 11JOFF P. N. BRADLEY2 Philosophical Posthumanism and Planetary Concerns 29FRANCESCA FERRANDO AND SHRADDHA A. SINGH3 Move Over, Mona Lisa. Move Over, Jane Eyre: Disrupting the Cultural and Intellectual Inequality Pipeline 37PEGGY LEVITT4 Rethinking Metaphorical and Bodily Movement through Nomadic Subjectivity and Identity 50VENYA PATEL5 To Dream Again: Thoughts on Island Soundscapes and Environmentalism 65PRIYA PARROTTA NATARAJANPART IIDiscord, Dystopias, and Utopias 776 Becoming Utopian in a Threatened Order 79TOM MOYLAN7 Exploring Dystopic Spatialities of Game(re)play: A Study of Papers, Please and Orwell 93ZAHRA RIZVI8 Seeking a World of Their Own: Looking for ‘Human’ Rights in a Mechanized, Futuristic World 105ARPITA SEN9 Re-Orienting Reading: Ergodic Form of Mark Z. Danielewski’s Only Revolutions 120AINEE BASIRPART IIIDisparity and Speculative Overtures 13110 An Open Letter from Rattus Norvegicus to New York City 133RADHIKA SUBRAMANIAM11 “As Told to”: The Mediation of Refugee Voices inContemporary Short Fiction 143MIRIAM WALLRAVEN12 “I Am Also a We”: Pathic Communities and the Globalization of Affect in the Wachowskis’ Sense8 154PAROMITA PATRANOBISH13 Re-inscribing the World: Reflections on Sense-Making and Navigating the Networks of Global Capitalism 170INDRANI DAS GUPTAIndex 187

"This rich volume covered a wide range of philosophical, literary and ethical materials to place the work of the imagination its widest spatial contexts, ranging from the intimate to the planetary. The authors explore the actual, possible and probable terrains of the ethics of humanity in an epoch in which global challenges appear to be subsumed by the planetary crisis."- Professor Arjun Appadurai"This collection of essays is a valuable addition to the growing field of Anthropocene studies. Concerned with the globe, the earth, and our times, the essays included here dwell on planetary ethics in speculative, real, and imagined spaces. This book will speak to our sense of the present."- Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty