&Now 2019 Conference

Asian bodies are often depicted as robotic, mechanical, and reflective of techno-orientalist futuristic anxieties, but Asian American speculative poets, hybrid writers, artists and scholars have continued to rework “machine” tropes in poetry, film, and other genres. Re-writing such persistent tropes in contemporary science fiction film and literature, this hybrid conversation/performance will feature Asian American poets, hybrid writers, artists and scholars discussing various cross-cultural interventions via alternative futurisms, recombinant texts, machine dreams and speculative media projects.