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Imagine that one day you wake up to discover that your nearest and dearest have been supplanted by perfect copies of themselves. The copies are physically indistinguishable from the originals but they are profoundly alien, harboring unfathomable and hostile minds.
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Gomel, E. (2014). The Contagion of Posthumanity: Alien Infestation and the Paradox of Subjectivity. In: Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137367631_4
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