Maria Theuma will deliver a presentation entitled ‘So Very Hideous an Idea’ – The Girl, the Doll and the Cyborg’ on Tuesday, at 6pm in Hall D2, 3rd floor, Gateway Building, University of Malta, Msida.
In her presentation, Theuma will address the problem of maintaining a productive discussion surrounding the politics and aesthetics of gender, by looking at how the ‘girl’ strategically figures and operates within techno-culture and, more broadly, posthumanism. It aims to explore the prospect of a technofeminism within which bodies, desires and bio-textual intimacies need not necessarily be erased, and, potentially, might even thrive.
Theuma is a PhD candidate in the University’s Department of English, where she is researching the relation between posthumanist aesthetics and beauty.
Students and the public are encouraged to attend the presentation, which will be followed by a discussion. It forms part of the Work in Progress in the Social Studies seminar series.