The aim of this article is to investigate the sociotechnical imaginaries present in UK online news articles and below line comments connection with genetically modified animals. This attempts provide an answer through a qualitative study using discourse analysis. findings reveal how depict animals as ‘other’ comparison those bred selective breeding. In comments, key feature monstrosity. Here, d...

nowadays, new advances in the use of cell free fetal dna (cffdna) in maternal plasma of pregnant women has provided the possibility of applying cffdna in prenatal diagnosis as a non-invasive method. in contrary to the risks of invasive methods that affect both mother and fetus, applying cffdna is proven to be highly effective with lower risk. one of the applications of prenatal diagnosis is fet...


 The article moves from the idea of monster as a “cultural predicate” referable to wide linguistic and symbolic repertoire proper overall human history. In this perspective, particular attention is paid variegated viewpoints on monstrosity that, initial teratology “natural” sign, develops into specifically “social” character. Hence indication material standpoint, shows how transformations...

This article analyses the pornographic subgenre monster porn. It considers animated monsters as vital revelatory symbols in which significant anxieties and discourses around contemporary male sexuality can be read. relates porn to recent media controversies concerning men such Harvey Weinstein Jeffrey Epstein, figures consistently understood “monsters” how metaphorical potency of animation read...

New French extreme cinema combines existentialism with shock, hyper violence, and transgressions of women’s bodies. I contend such imagery is best understood as a representation violence that enables enlightenment in through the monstrosity abjection. examine this phenomenon four films from Extremism’s inaugural cycle. El Nuevo Extremismo Francés combina el existencialismo con la hiperviolencia...

The seventeenth century, the century of the scientific revolution, was populated by monsters, monsters that the new mechanical science was challenging, and also monsters that it had a part in generating. Descartes’s and Hobbes’s philosophical systems played a key role in providing a metaphysical foundation to the new science of motion both in the natural and in the political domain. Focusing on...