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Beautiful Lepers, Monstrous Human: The Impossibility of Utopia in the Strugatskys’ The Ugly Swans. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bouet, E. (2014, July). Beautiful Lepers, Monstrous Human: The Impossibility of Utopia in the Strugatskys’ The Ugly Swans. Presented at Monstrosity

Jerome Cohen argues that the creature or the monster provides a space of interaction: ‘The space of transformation, becoming, passion, alterity, the uncanny, the utopian, is in fact an interspace.’ The relationship and conflict between the monster an... Read More about Beautiful Lepers, Monstrous Human: The Impossibility of Utopia in the Strugatskys’ The Ugly Swans..

Unwavering Decolonial Hauntings in Mati Diop’s Atlantics
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bouet, E. (2024, August). Unwavering Decolonial Hauntings in Mati Diop’s Atlantics. Presented at The Flowing Image: The Ocean On-Screen, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

Atlantics (Atlantique, 2019) is Mati Diop’s first directorial feature film. The story takes place in Dakar in which luxury hotels are being developed for wealthy foreign customers. The Senegalese construction workers are left unpaid for three months... Read More about Unwavering Decolonial Hauntings in Mati Diop’s Atlantics.