Indigenous Posthumans: Cyberpunk Surgeries and Biotech Boarding Schools in File under Miscellaneous and SyFy’s Helix

Uses Jeff Barnaby’s film, File Under Miscellaneous, and SyFy’s series, Helix, to discuss the subtleties inherent in Gerald Vizenor’s concept of “survivance” and Archille Mbembe’s competing logics of “martyrdom and survial.” Considers these as elements of resistance to colonial biopolitics.