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Bökös, Borbála. "Human-Alien Encounters in Science Fiction: A Postcolonial Perspective." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies 16, no. 1 (2019): 189–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausfm-2019-0010.

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Abstract An (un)conventional encounter between humans and alien beings has long been one of the main thematic preoccupations of the genre of science fiction. Such stories would thus include typical invasion narratives, as in the case of the three science fiction films I will discuss in the present paper: the Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956; Philip Kaufman, 1978; Abel Ferrara, 1993), The Host (Andrew Niccol, 2013), and Avatar (James Cameron, 2009). I will examine the films in relation to postcolonial theories, while attempting to look at the ways of revisiting one’s history and culture (both alien and human) in the films’ worlds that takes place in order to uncover and heal the violent effects of colonization. In my reading of the films I will shed light on the specific processes of identity formation (of an individual or a group), and the possibilities of individual and communal recuperation through memories, rites of passages, as well as hybridization. I will argue that the colonized human or alien body can serve either as a mediator between the two cultures, or as an agent which fundamentally distances two separate civilizations, thus irrevocably bringing about the loss of identity, as well as the lack of comprehension of cultural differences.
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Dunér, David. "The cultural semiotics of African encounters: Eighteenth-Century images of the Other." Semiotica 2020, no. 232 (2020): 103–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2019-0030.

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AbstractThis a contribution to the cultural semiotics of African cultural encounters seen through the eyes of Swedish naturalists at the end of the eighteenth century. European travellers faced severe problems in understanding the alien African cultures they encountered; they even had difficulty understanding the other culture as a culture. They were not just other cultures that they could relate to, but often something completely different, belonging to the natural history of the human species. The Khoikhoi and other groups were believed by Europeans to be, from their perspective, the most distant culture. The Linnaean disciple Anders Sparrman and others, however, tried to transcend this cultural gap, and used their cognitive resources, such as empathy and intersubjectivity, in order to understand the alien culture they encountered.The aim of this paper is to unearth the cultural semiosis of African encounters and the intersubjective challenges that human interactions provoke. These encounters not only changed the view the travellers had of the Other, but also changed themselves and their self-perception. The encounter between the Ego and the Other is, however, not static, something predestined by the differences in their cultures, but dynamic, changing according to individual encounters and the actual intersubjective interplay that transform and change the perception of the Other. There are in particular four meaning-making processes and challenges within cultural encounters that are in focus: recognizing cultural complexity; invoking intersubjectivity; determining similarities and dissimilarities; and identifying the Other as a mirror of oneself.The triad of cultures – Ego, Alter, and Alius – can be understood as gradual and changing aspects depending on the actual situation of the encounter and the personal perspectives, interpretations, and behaviour of the thinking subjects involved. Using concrete examples from Southern and Western Africa in the 1770s and 1780s, this study aims to explore this dynamic semiosis. One of the conclusions is that the relation between the Ego and the Alter/Alius is not something only predetermined by the cultures involved and their ideologies, but also depends on the individual thinking subjects and how they use their specific cognitive and semiotic resources, not least their intersubjective abilities, within specific temporal and spatial contexts.
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Medina, Nicolás, and Miklós Kiss. "The Role of Experimenting with the Human Voice in Film Music in the Representation of the Human/Alien Divide: the Case of Arrival (2016)." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies 20, no. 1 (2021): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausfm-2021-0011.

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Abstract This article focuses on the musical dimension of experimentation in the creative space of science fiction film, concerning its uncanny, new and fantastic places, and otherworldly encounters within fictional, but possible worlds. The aim is to consider the function and potential of the audible – to examine how sound is used in the filmic exploration of the boundaries between the human and the alien (the unknown). More particularly, we are interested in the role that human voice-like and human vocal sounds can play in this divide, as we believe manipulations with such audible qualities contribute greatly to the emotional dimension of cinematic stories of otherworldly encounters. For that purpose, we concentrate on Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival (2016) and its soundtrack composed by Jóhann Jóhannsson, who resorts to different singing practices and vocal techniques to accompany a story charting the territories between the human and the alien.
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Zeller, Benjamin E. "Extraterrestrial Biblical Hermeneutics and the Making of Heaven's Gate." Nova Religio 14, no. 2 (2010): 34–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2010.14.2.34.

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The new religious movement popularly called Heaven's Gate emerged in the mid-1970s. This article argues that its two co-founders, Marshall Herff Applewhite (1932––1997) and Bonnie Lu Nettles (1928––1985), employed what I call extraterrestrial biblical hermeneutics in constructing the theological worldview of Heaven's Gate. This hermeneutics developed out of the New Age movement and its broader interest in ufology, extraterrestrial life, and alien visitation, and postulates a series of close encounters and alien visitations. Borrowing from its New Age and ufological origins, the hermeneutics assumes an extraterrestrial interest in assisting human beings to self-develop, as well as a technological materialism antithetical to supernaturalist readings of the Bible. As I argue here, this extraterrestrial biblical hermeneutics led Applewhite and Nettles to read the Bible as supporting a message of alien visitation, self-transformation, and ultimately extraterrestrial technological rapture.
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Soto, Stephany. "Intellectual property in the bio-sector research:." Revista Peruana de Biología 27, no. 1 (2020): 103–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.15381/rpb.v27i1.17587.

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Intellectual Property is a powerful legal and economic instrument. In our “knowledge economy”, patents are the preferred IP tool with special emphasis in the pharma – agro biotech industry. However, the growth of patents in the bio sector such as the pharma and agro fields, encounters many challenges. Life itself has not been defined yet. So, how can it be determined exactly when a living being, or a biological entity has been modified by itself or by human intervention, and thus address issues of patentability? Therefore, a researcher in the bio field cannot be alien to Intellectual Property, being the main actor in the revolution of the bio-pharma-agro sectors.
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Dridi, Yosr. "Representing the Unrepresentable." Film International 21, no. 1 (2023): 7–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fint_00201_1.

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This article discusses the representations of alienhood in a selection of first contact science-fiction films. It performs a cinematographic reading of human encounters with and attitudes towards alienhood. By examining the visual stylistic choices, the representation of outer-space (other)worlds and alienhood will be problematized beyond the binarism of vilification and celebration. Instead, contact with alienhood will offer deeper insight into the cultural, intellectual and psychological facets of human identity and urge further introspection about the human position in a universe that no longer obeys an anthropocentric logic. Ultimately, first contact science-fiction cinema will be shown to relativize the reassuring conception of selfhood and to suggest the obsolescence of universalist-humanist assumptions about alienhood. This is achieved by opting for a representational one-way route which leads towards acceptance, not of the alien per se, but of the potential and limits of the human self when faced with the unknowability and the unrepresentability of alienhood.
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Virginás, Andrea. "Embodied Genetics in Science-Fiction, Big-Budget to Low-Budget: from Jeunet’s Alien: Resurrection (1997) to Piccinini’s Workshop (2011)." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies 8, no. 1 (2014): 149–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausfm-2014-0031.

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Abstract The article uses and revises to some extent Vivian Sobchack’s categorization of (basically) American science-fiction output as “optimistic big-budget,” “wondrous middle-ground” and “pessimistic low-budget” seen as such in relation to what Sobchack calls the “double view” of alien beings in filmic diegesis (Screening Space, 2001). The argument is advanced that based on how diegetic encounters are constructed between “genetically classical” human agents and beings only partially “genetically classical” and/or human (due to genetic diseases, mutations, splicing, and cloning), we may differentiate between various methods of visualization (nicknamed “the museum,” “the lookalike,” and “incest”) that are correlated to Sobchack’s mentioned categories, while also displaying changes in tone. Possibilities of revision appear thanks to the later timeframe (the late 1990s/2000s) and the different national-canonical belongings (American, Icelandic-German- Danish, Hungarian-German, Canadian-French-American, and Australian) that characterize filmic and artistic examples chosen for analysis as compared to Sobchack’s work in Screening Space.1
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Biswas, Apurba. "The Unintended Repercussions of Technological Breakthrough in Satyajit Ray’s The Diary of a Space Traveller and its Implication on the Status Quo of Artificial Intelligence: A Case Study Through the Lens of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle." New Literaria 04, no. 02 (2023): 10–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.48189/nl.2023.v04i2.002.

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The paper explains the application of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle to Professor Shonku’s The Diary of a Space Traveller (2004) to analyze the implications of the principle on the behaviour of the characters and the plot and deploy that theoretical framework to address the current situation of burgeoning AI models and provide suggestions on how to mitigate its unintended consequences. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle states that it is impossible to simultaneously determine the position and momentum of a particle with complete precision. The Diary of a Space Traveller tells the story of Professor Shonku, a brilliant scientist who builds a spacecraft capable of travelling through space to discover unknown planets, encountering manifold and diverse alien species, and a highly sophisticated artificial intelligence-induced robot who irregularly exhibits unprecedented behaviour. The application of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle to The Diary of a Space Traveller can be seen in the following ways: Professor Shonku’s scientific incapability to predict the unintended ramifications of his scientific inventions, his interaction with the alien species he encounters with expectations opposite to reality, the inability of other characters to make sense of unprecedented events, and the necessity of controlling the possibility of the unintended repercussions under voluntary human control. The results of this study will add to the larger conversation on responsible innovation and ways to mitigate the possibility of the adverse effects of uni
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Armand, Fabio. "Aufhocker : Quand l’identité Alien d’un de nos corps-fantômes se porte sur le dos." Caietele Echinox 41 (December 1, 2021): 85–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/cechinox.2021.41.07.

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"Within the framework of the most recent advances in the BRAINCUBUS model of neurocognitive anthropology, we will analyze the transcultural narrative motif of the Aufhocker (F472. Huckauf. A goblin which jumps on one’s back). From the Alps to the Himalayas, we will track down experiential encounters with numerous supernatural beings who jump on the backs of humans and are carried away with all their crushing heaviness. We recognize these supernatural beings as neurally real phantom-body connectomes, generated by the activation of the Temporo-Parietal Junction in the left hemisphere of the human brain."
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Sayfulloh, Agus, Melya Riniarti, and Trio Santoso. "Invasive Alien Species Plants in Sukaraja Atas Resort, Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park." Jurnal Sylva Lestari 8, no. 1 (2020): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.23960/jsl18109-120.

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One of the problems encountered by the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park (TNBBS) is the presence of invasive alien species. Invasive alien species are plants that grow outside their natural distribution and have the ability to cover the area; hence it could suppress the growth of the other plants. The presence of invasive alien species in the national park has been widely reported to cause negative impacts on the ecosystem, local biodiversity, socio-economic, and human health in the vicinity. This study was carried out in the rehabilitation zone of the Sukaraja Atas Resort of TNBBS that had shifted into open land. This study aimed to determine the species and dominance of invasive alien species that exist. The sampling method was used by laying plots consisted of the combination of the line and multiple plot methods with a total plot of 25 plots. Data analysis was performed by selecting invasive alien species observed based related-literature, while the dominance of invasive alien species was calculated by the importance value index (IVI). The results identified 121 species, of which 29 species or 35% of them were classified as invasive alien, which originating from 19 families. Three invasive alien species become the most dominating, namely: Clidemia hirta with an IVI of 22.61, Imperata cylindrica with an IVI of 18.03, and Calliandra calothyrsus with an IVI 17.96. The environmental conditions and species characteristics supported the three invasive alien species domination; hence it inhibited the growth of native species. Keywords: Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, invasive alien species, rehabilitation zone
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