Marion Thain is a professor of culture and technology at King’s College London and the executive dean of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. She is chair-director of the Digital Futures Institute at King’s, where she founded the Centre for Attention Studies. She publishes particularly on the relationship between culture and technology (considering “technology” in the broadest sense).
Marion Thain
Articles
Bella Baxter and the Machine: On Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Poor Things” and Julie Wosk’s “Artificial Women”
Marion Thain analyzes Yorgos Lanthimos’s film “Poor Things” in the context of Julie Wosk’s new book “Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females.”
Theorizing Queer Before Queer Theory
Marion Thain on Dustin Friedman’s new study of queerness in the Victorian era, before queer theory or, really, any clear account of queer identity.
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