Post-Anthropocentric Futures: Rootlessness and Liquid Identities in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, Steven Soderbergh’s Solaris, and Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgementsThe author has contributed to the study, preparation, and analysis of the paper.Competing InterestsThe author has no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose. This research does not involve any Human Participants or Animals.Additional informationNotes on contributorsArindam NandiArindam Nandi is a doctoral research scholar and a part-time research assistant in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras specializing in English Literature. He has previously completed his Masters and MPhil in English Literature from the University of Calcutta. While his MPhil work had concerned an exploration of Michel Foucault’s anti-establishment politics in the works of Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera, his current PhD research involves a critical investigation of disease and contagious metaphors in post-eighteenth century literary and cultural works.