Abstract
What figurations of embodied experience does science fiction offer that might help us navigate the uncertainties of our world? This paper will examine the relationship between being human within a sphere of increasingly precarious existence, and the speculations of science fiction that inform the articulation of our naked humanity in response to the threat of an ‘enemy from within’. These are the days, and weeks, and months – let us hope not years – of Ebola. What might science fiction in its ruminations of the universe illuminate, that we can in some way better understand how we respond to real-life, real-world threats that transect the visceral borders of our embodied existence?