X-Men : la puissance de la défaillance, entre infirmité et post-humanité by Adrien Cascarino

“…Some transhumanist fictions, especially the figure of the mutant in the X-men, can then help us reshape our representations of the human body, by questioning the boundaries set between monsters, the cripple, humans and transhumans, not with the aim of destroying the existing borders between these categories but rather of destroying the evidence of their outlines, which always need to be (re)constructed.…”
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“But lo the thing’s inside and can you guess his shape?”: the semiotic elaboration of Cormac McCarthy’s autotextual creature in his early novels and No Country for Old Men by Yvonne-Marie Rogez

“…It appears to function through the construction of doubles who reveal the shape of the monsters within the main characters, beginning with Kenneth Rattner and Marion Sylder and climaxing with Moss and Chigurh. …”
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Doubleness on the New York Contemporary Experimental Stage: Bodies and Technology by Emeline Jouve

“…Intermediality, or the co-presence or superimposition of different artistic media, creates dual bodies: technological monsters that are half-human and half-video, grotesque minotaurs at once men and puppets. …”
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