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Intro -- The Projected and Prophetic: Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Reconsidering Post-Human Concepts -- John Scalzi's Old Man's War Trilogy: A User's Guide to Post-Humanity -- 'We walk amid crowds, ride, fly or fall with the hero': Avatars and Posthumanism -- Reading the Body: Interpreting Three Dimensional Media as Narrative -- Part II Issues of Immersion, Ethics and Identity -- The Ethical Experience in Controversial Videogames -- Making Science Fiction Personal: Videogames and Inter-Affective Storytelling -- Heterotopias of Genders in Digital Space: Gender Representations in Facebook -- Immersion and Surveillance in Virtual Worlds -- Part III Technology, Community and Anthropology -- Anthropological Reflections on Knowledge Interfaces: Swarm, Wikinomics and Design -- Intelligent Shoes, Smart Teeth and Lunch with a Cyborg: Anthropological Reflections on the Change of Communication Paradigms -- Mission to Earth: Planetary Proprioception and the Cyber-Sublime -- Avatar: A Tale of Indigenous Survival? -- Part IV Science Fiction and the Literatures of Cyberspace -- Loss of Connection: Science in Romanticism and Modern Science Fiction -- Human Identity in the World of Altered Carbon -- The Mind Body Problem through Science Fiction: Charles Stross and Richard Morgan in Philosophical Review -- Human Magic, Fairy Technology and the Place of the Supernatural in the Age of Cyberculture -- Part V The Future of Humanity in Film and Television -- Enemy Metaphors and the Countdown for Mankind in the American TV Series Space: Above and Beyond and Battlestar Galactica -- Quest for Closure: Re-Visioning Humanity in Battlestar Galactica -- Who's Your Saviour? The Changing Messiahs of Contemporary Science Fiction Film and TV.

Abstract
Faced with the proliferation of TERF rhetoric outside academia, this article proposes a case study of an anti-trans, anti-gender, anti–sex work graduate student at a progressive American institution to challenge feminism to address the ways in which it is providing a space of unchallenging silence for TERF views to remain a nonissue and receive academic support and accreditation. An examination of this specific student highlights a narrative of radicalization occurring during her studies at the university. A challenge for cis feminists to self-reflect and step up, this article argues that cis feminism has for now failed to address the transphobia in its midst, thus forcing trans students and scholars to lose faith in feminism and to find care and support elsewhere.

Retrocausation describes how an event that happens in the future may affect the present. For example, determining the state of an entangled particle in the future can determine the state of an entangled particle in the present. Recently, this phenomenon has been reported in the psychological literature, with several studies reporting that events which have yet to happen affect performance in various tasks. In this article, two classical manipulations of expectation from the psychological literature, endogenous and exogenous cueing, have been used to explore retrocausal effects on reaction speeds. The findings demonstrate no effect of retrocausation, supported by both frequentist and Bayesian statistical analysis. This is an important finding from two perspectives. First, it may indicate a limiting condition of retrocausal effects. Alternatively, it may contribute to research demonstrating a lack of retrocausation.