So, what if the act of warning and showing becomes monstrous in itself? What if the exploration of dark emotions and graphic depictions of violence turn out to be part of our normalized social structures? As monsters’ etymology indicates, they warn us, but they also “display”, becoming a sign of exhibition. Monsters are common tropes in horror stories. We explore how the more we fix our eye on such systems of control, the more we start to find them as a horrific, menacing, and as an unavoidable presence that appears to be the manifestation of the disjunctions prompted by those systems. The stories and visual work in this panel, and in the proposed additional artistic activities, are moved by the contradictory elements that relate to horror and systems of control. In this panel, we propose to approach stories and imagery that put sympathetic and frightening scenarios that intensify fear, disgust, and shock via our creative writing. Gustavus Adolphus College and Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA Monstrous Assemblages: Diverging Embodiments of Resistance and PowerĬarlos Mario Mejía Suárez and Adriana Gordillo
Interdisciplinary Research, Publishing and ExplorationsĢ nd Global Conference The Darkness at the Edges: Dystopia, Global Horror, Monsters, Fairy Tales & Lovecraft Saturday 18 th March 2023 – Sunday 19 th March 2023 Prague, Czech Republic Progressive Connexions ~ Interdisciplinary Life
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