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Silica Animus, Silica Animosity: How Artificial Intelligence in Warhammer 40,000 complicates the boundaries of the body, the soul, and the monstrous

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Abstract The world of 40k has forever been at war with the concept of Artificial Intelligence. The Imperium of Man ever wrestles with its fear of Men of Iron whilst simultaneously protecting and pacifying its myriad machine spirits. They preach against the return of ‘Abominable Intelligences’ while they battle the supernatural might of Daemon Engines. …

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Fatherhood and tradition in the first space marine legion

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Abstract A major theme in the bestselling book series The Horus Heresy is fatherhood. The inciting incident of the series is the abandonment of Horus Lupercal by his father The Emperor, and many of the primarchs struggle with their positions as gene-fathers to the adeptus astartes, as well as to the various father figures in …

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Cyborg Monstrosity: Disability, Augmetics, and the Limits of Humanity in Warhammer 40k

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Abstract The Imperium of Man is an explicitly eugenic state, pursing its obsessive campaign of purifying humanity at all costs. Both those with conventional disabilities and the crip-coded psykers and mutants are routinely either purged from the gene pool or are “cured” through super-science that erase disability as an identity category, including via the elimination …