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Published: 4 June 2021

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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

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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 di

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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

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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 as

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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,

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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 lo

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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 diff

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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

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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 huma

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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

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