The Unknown Ratio
The Unknown Ratio

Author(s): Özgür Hünel
Subject(s): Short Story
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Unknown; Ratio; killing; posthumanism series; science fiction; Turkish Fiction in English; anthology; non-western science fiction; stories; Turkish science fiction;
Summary/Abstract: “Now let’s examine the striking physical features of this “alien species”; a tall, slender neck, a head disproportionately large for the body, eyes without pupils, and a body that oscillates as if it had no fixed form and could change it at any moment. Isn’t it a really alien form? This 1919 portrait of Amedeo Modigliani's greatest love, the young and beautiful Jeanne Hébuterne, may evoke a feeling of aesthetics and romanticism for many of you. But in this lesson, we will learn to look deeper. Although it is aesthetics on the surface, there is another concept underlying it: foreign intercultural interaction! Now let me explain to you what this interaction is…”

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