Contributors: Hosts and Guests viii Acknowledgments: "Figuring Out How It All Works" xv Introduction: Taking Sides in Westworld 1 Part I "You Said This Place Was a Game" 3 1 On Playing Cowboys and Indians 5 Don Fallis 2 A Special Kind of Game: The Portrayal of Roleplay in Westworld 15 Nicholas Moll 3 Humans and Hosts in Westworld: What's the Difference? 26 Marcus Arvan Part II "You're Only Human, After All" 39 4 Crossing the Uncanny Valley: What it Means to be Human in Westworld 41 Siobhan Lyons 5 Revealing Your Deepest Self: Can Westworld Create or Corrupt Virtue? 50 Jason T. Eberl 6 Westworld: From Androids to Persons 61 Onni Hirvonen Part III "We Can't Define Consciousness Because Consciousness Does Not Exist" 71 7 Turing's Dream and Searle's Nightmare in Westworld 73 Lucía Carrillo González 8 What Is It Like to Be a Host? 79 Bradley Richards 9 Does the Piano Play Itself? Consciousness and the Eliminativism of Robert Ford 90 Michael Versteeg and Adam Barkman Part IV "Choices Hanging in the Air Like Ghosts" 103 10 Maeve's Dilemma: What Does it Mean to Be Free? 105 Marco Antonio Azevedo and Ana Azevedo 11 A Place to Be Free: Writing Your Own Story in Westworld 114 Joshua D. Crabill 12 From William to the Man in Black: Sartrean Existentialism and the Power of Freedom 125 Kimberly S. Engels Part V "I've Always Loved a Great Story.Lies That Told a Deeper Truth" 137 13 Hideous Fictions and Horrific Fates 139 Madeline Muntersbjorn 14 Narrating Gender, Gendering Narrative, and Engendering Wittgenstein's "Rough Ground" in Westworld 150 Lizzie Finnegan 15 The Observer(s) System and the Semiotics of Virtuality in Westworld's Characters: Jonathan Nolan's Fictions as a Conceptual Unity 162 Patricia TraperoLlobera 16 What Does Bernard Dream About When He Dreams About His Son? 173 Oliver Lean Part VI "I Choose to See the Beauty" 183 17 The Dueling Productions of Westworld: SelfReferential Art or MetaKitsch? 185 Michael Forest and Thomas BeckleyForest 18 Beauty, Dominance, Humanity: Three Takes on Nudity in Westworld 196 Matthew Meyer 19 SciFi Western or Ancient Greek Tragedy? 206 Caterina Ludovica Baldini Part VII "You Can't Play God Without Being Acquainted With the Devil" 217 20 Of Hosts and Men: Westworld and Speciesism 219 François Jaquet and Florian Cova 21 Violent Births: Fanon, Westworld, and Humanity 229 Anthony Petros Spanakos 22 The Wretched of Westworld: Scientific Totalitarianism and Revolutionary Violence 239 Dan Dinello Index 252.