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McGuirk, Carol, and Paul K. Alkon. "Origins of Futuristic Fiction." South Atlantic Review 54, no. 1 (January 1989): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3200074.
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Woodman, Thomas, and Paul K. Alkon. "Origins of Futuristic Fiction." Modern Language Review 86, no. 1 (January 1991): 155. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3732106.
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Parrinder, Patrick, and Paul K. Alkon. "Origins of Futuristic Fiction." Eighteenth-Century Studies 23, no. 2 (1989): 226. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2738744.
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Kumari, Priyanka. "Futuristic Technologies in Asimov’s Science Fiction Stories." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 6 (June 22, 2020): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i6.10614.
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Isaac Asimov has advocated the idea that science fiction is a flavour that can be applied to any genre of fiction. The two novels that are used for this term paper; “The Naked Sun” and “The Robots of Dawn” are in keeping with this idea. The two stories are essentially whodunit stories, with several futuristic technologies like positronic robots and hyperspace travel blended into it. This term paper mainly focuses on identifying the futuristic technology in Isaac Asimov’s science fiction stories. It would focus on how such futuristic technology stories, which take place in a world completely unfamiliar to the reader, fit into models of classification described by Tzvetan Todorov and Arthur Asa Berger. In this term paper, there would also be an attempt to do analyse how the notion of ‘crime and punishment’ is handled differently in these stories, and also to see how elements of science fiction and futuristic technologies fit into the genre of detective fiction. The term paper also contains a brief character analysis of the Futuristic technologies by detectives in the two stories.
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Wu, Yan. "Experiential futuristic science fiction: Genre and techniques." Cultures of Science 6, no. 4 (December 2023): 329–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20966083231216504.
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Experiential futurism is an important subgenre of futuristic science fiction in China, with the greatest number of works and the richest content. Several important works in this genre have gained widespread influence. Experiential futuristic works focus on conveying the experience of the future through words, and often use considerable appeal to call on people to pay attention to and to think about the future. Such works can be divided into two types: those attempting to convey the experience of a stand-alone technology and those attempting to convey a panoramic experience. The methods for creating experiential futuristic fiction include wonder creation, perception reinforcement, immersion creation, emotion activation and cognitive enhancement. Experiential futuristic works play a pioneering role in today's era of virtual reality and the metaverse.
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Arthur B. Evans. "Anachronism in Early French Futuristic Fiction." Science Fiction Studies 43, no. 2 (2016): 194. http://dx.doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.43.2.0194.
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Yu, Lei. "Ecological Concerns and Insights in Science Fiction Films — A Case Study of The Wandering Earth." Journal of Research in Social Science and Humanities 3, no. 3 (March 2024): 56–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.56397/jrssh.2024.03.09.
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Science fiction films, as an artistic expression highlighting the relationship between future technology and human survival, often utilize grand story settings and fictional futuristic worlds to explore the connection between humanity and the environment. This paper takes the Chinese science fiction film The Wandering Earth as a case study, examining its focus on ecological issues and the presentation of ecological awareness within the narrative. The aim is to use science fiction cinema as a medium to provide audiences with insights into Earth’s ecology, guiding humanity towards profound reflections on environmental issues.
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Petrie, Graham. "Origins of Futuristic Fiction (review)." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 1, no. 1 (1988): 77–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ecf.1988.0010.
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Ajdačić, Dejan. "O genetski izazvanim bolestima u romanu „Kralj Bola i skakavac” (Król Bólu i pasikonik) Jaceka Dukaja." Slavica Wratislaviensia 177 (December 30, 2022): 221–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0137-1150.177.19.
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The author discusses the historical changes in attitudes towards infectious diseases in the mythological, Christian-religious and scientific worldview before and after the discovery of the causes of these diseases in the context of the types of futuristic fiction. One narrative line of the novel by contemporary Polish writer Jacek Dukaj King of Pain and the Grasshopper (Król Bólu i pasikonik, 2010) is centred on to the production of retroviruses and carcinogenic agents by genetic engineering companies that cause epidemics and destroy wildlife in the southern hemisphere. The text points out the specifics of the author’s descriptions of the cause of the plague and discusses Dukaj’s speculative projections of futuristic fiction.
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CROSSLEY, C. "Review. Origins of Futuristic Fiction. Alkon, Paul K." French Studies 44, no. 2 (April 1, 1990): 236–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fs/44.2.236-a.
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Matek, Ljubica. "Australian Aboriginal SF – Blending Genre and Literary Fiction: A Review of Futuristic Worlds in Australian Aboriginal Fiction by Iva Polak." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 15, no. 1 (April 18, 2018): 129–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.15.1.129-131.
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The fact that Iva Polak’s monograph Futuristic Worlds in Australian Aboriginal Fiction is the first volume in Peter Lang’s World Science Fiction Studies series, edited by Sonja Fritzsche, is symbolic of the actual novelty and relevance of Polak’s work. It is, in fact, the first book-length study in English dedicated to the analysis of Australian Aboriginal fiction from the point of view of the theory of the fantastic.
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Tawalbeh, Ahmad, Omar Blibech, and Hesham Elmarsafawy. "Utilization of Science Fiction Drama in Higher Education: An Innovative Pedagogy for Brain Warm-up, Inspire Futuristic Views, and Foster Creativity." International Journal of Media and Mass Communication 05, no. 01 (January 1, 2023): 117–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.46988/ijmmc.05.01.2023.07.
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The research aims to examine the potentiality of utilizing science fiction drama in higher education learning environments. The research team initiated the study by surveying the preferences of both students and instructors in range of higher education institutions towards science fiction drama. The surveys have been extended to explore the existing practices of utilizing science fiction drama in educational processes. The students and instructors’ surveys provided evidence of expressed personal interest in watching science fiction drama with diverse preferences towards various types of science fiction drama. However, the results of the surveys demonstrated low utilization of science fiction drama in the existing teaching and learning practices. Accordingly, an experimental study was conducted in a sample class where a subject on ‘Sustainability’ has been delivered by presenting selected sections of a relevant science fiction movie to a group of students followed by a lecture with reflections on the presented scenes. The students were assigned to reflect on the subject in a structured questionnaire in terms of understanding and innovative thoughts around the subject. The students’ feedback provided valuable insights on the positive impact and effectiveness of utilizing science fiction drama within higher education learning environment. The research contributes to the development of innovative pedagogies at higher education institutions by introducing the approach and outlining the mechanism of utilizing science fiction drama in teaching and learning processes as alternative tool for brain warm-up, better understanding of subject, forming futuristic views, and fostering creativity while enhancing students’ engagement. Keywords: Higher Education, Science Fiction Drama, Educational Processes, Pedagogy, Brain Warm-up, Futuristic View, Foster Creativity, Learner Interest and Engagement.
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Zhao, Shichao. "Creating Futuristic Heritage Experiences: An Exploratory Co-Design Study through Design Fiction." Sustainability 14, no. 19 (September 23, 2022): 12027. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su141912027.
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This study adopted design fiction and co-design as the two main methodological approaches for designers and artists to explore the complex relationships and intersections of futuristic heritage experience and engagement. A literature-based seminar and a co-design workshop were conducted with 26 participants from multidisciplinary backgrounds, via Miro Board. A series of collaborative design practices and science fiction films were utilised as key media for propelling thinking, raising awareness or questions, provoking actions, inaugurating discussions, and offering alternatives necessary for a heritage setting. Additionally, this study reflects upon the complexities of using design fiction activities to re-think the technological future of heritage engagement and experience.
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Kozieł, Patrycja. "From Afrofuturism to Africanfuturism: Contemporary Expressions within Popular Culture." Hemispheres.Studies on Cultures and Societies 36 (2021): 69–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.60018/hemi.ldvc3494.
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The futuristic representation of the world is an important aspect of understanding contemporary cultural processes, literary and musical trends, and artistic activities, both in Africa and in the African Diaspora. In order to examine effectively the development of the futurist path, I will briefly trace two categories: ‘Afrofuturism’ and ‘Africanfuturism’ (as proposed by Nnedi Okorafor), containing elements of science-fiction, speculative fiction, non-Western history, technology, and fantasy. In this article I will discuss how the concept of Afrofuturism has evolved, how techno-utopian visions of the future are created, illustrating terrestrial and cosmic existence, while extracting knowledge about ancestors, mythology and cosmology. Is it a kind of cultural script – based on ephemerality, temporality and imagination – that has been adapted to the conditions of modern popular culture in Sub-Saharan Africa? Or is it an accurate form of crossing time-space boundaries and discourses?
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Polak, Iva. "Unpunishable Crimes in Claire G. Coleman’s Futuristic Novel Terra Nullius." Humanities 11, no. 2 (March 25, 2022): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h11020047.
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Aside from being part of a vibrant corpus of Indigenous futurism, Claire G. Coleman’s novel Terra Nullius (2017) can also be analysed as an eco-crime novel. Indigenous Australian authors of this genre (e.g., Philip McLaren, Steven McCarthy, Nicole Watson) often anchor the source of criminal acts in the theft, loss and devastation of traditional lands, which provides their crime novels with a heightened awareness of environmental issues. The same applies to Terra Nullius. This is, however, a novel that successfully conceals its futuristic framework until halfway through. Equally, this successfully disrupts the usual postulates of crime fiction by shifting the reader’s attention from the usual “whodunnit” to the more elusive “whoizzit” mode of crime fiction. This, as the discussion reveals, means that the criminal acts in Terra Nullius are rendered unpunishable. This paradox, as it is argued, is strengthened by introducing the so-called “noir detective” (Timothy Morton) in the character of Father Grark, who cannot investigate that which constitutes the crime and the alibi shaping the world of Coleman’s futuristic novel.
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P, Jushaini. "Exploring the Facts and Fantasies in Neal Town Stephenson’s ‘The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer’." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 3 (March 28, 2020): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i3.10479.
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Literature enables people to think out of the box and connect with new ideas. At the same time, it takes us back and helps us know more about the life led by our ancestors. As a great foundation of life, literature fosters the overall development of the people and the society through inspiring stories, motivating tales and futuristic writings. We live in a world of technological advancements and Science Fiction stories are the profound ways to introduce extrapolation and speculation in literature. Built on a strong foundation of realistic concepts, sci-fi stories develop a futuristic world of limitless possibilities. Sci-fi stories take us to an exciting world where one witness unimaginable applications of science and technologies.
Neal Town Stephenson is an American writer well-known for writing science fiction, cyberpunk and postcyberpunk stories. He belongs to a prestigious family of scientists and engineers. His father was a biochemistry professor and his paternal grandfather, a physics professor. After completing his studies from Boston University, he started working as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company specialized in developing spacecraft and space launch systems. Currently, he is serving as the chief futurist for Magic Leap. He also cofounded Subutai Corporation, a company dedicated to developing interactive fiction projects.
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Town Stephenson. The novel’s protagonist is named Nell, who is a thete, meaning a person who is not a member of any of the phyles. The entire plot is set in a future nanotech world where three forms of tribes or phyles exist, known as the Han, the Neo-Victorian New Atlantis, and the Nippon. The Diamond Age details some of the applications of nanotechnology such as chevaline, smart paper, etc. This journal is an analysis of extrapolation and speculation used in the sci-fi novel, The Diamond Age, written with an aim to explore different facts and fantasies created by the author.
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Sum, Robert Kipkoech, Justus Kizito Siboe Makokha, and Speranza Ndege. "Afrofuturism and Quest for Black Redemption in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix." East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences 5, no. 1 (July 13, 2022): 328–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajass.5.1.752.
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Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix follows the trajectory of many Afrofuturist texts in the exploration of the Black fortunes in the contested futuristic space. Using science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction, Okorafor appropriate futuristic space as a locale for negotiating the redemption of black bodies. She also contextualises the experiences of Africans or people of African origin in known world history. This, apparently, show that the futuristic space is neither detached from the past nor the contemporary period but rather it is an opportunity to map an optimistic future through a keen reappraisal of history from an Afrocentric perspective. This article uses a close reading of Nnedi Okorafor’s novel The Book of Phoenix to examine how prosthetically enhanced future is appropriated to re-enact the black struggle for redemption and relevance in the face of ruthless oppression through exploitation, dehumanisation, and slavery. The analysis is also guided by postulations of some prominent Afrofuturists like Mark Dery and Ytasha L. Womack. Data has been analysed using content and thematic analysis. This article finds that Afrofuturism can indeed portend optimism for black people in the sense that it utilises futuristic space to reconstruct the past and contemporary tribulations facing the black people in order to implement an ultimate solution and initiate the process of redemption. It can thus be concluded that The Book of Phoenix indeed lives up to Afrofuturist and Afro-optimist spirit by not only illuminating black challenges but also highlighting positive aspects of blackness like strength, resilience, humanity, and longevity. This article could benefit scholars in the field of postcolonial and diasporic studies by exposing the complex and dynamic nature of race, exploitation, and technology. It benefits the African/ Afro-diasporic literary studies as Afrofuturism is creating an impact in the domain of sci-fi which has traditionally been dominated by the West
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J. L., Ms Chithra. "The Paradox of Being Human and more than Human: Exploring the Class Struggle in Nancy Kress’ Beggars in Spain." Psychology and Education Journal 58, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 4485–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/pae.v58i1.1539.
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The human history is an apologue. It tells the struggle-some tale of races, aiming for power and prestige or for mere survival. Marxism, discontent with the existing struggle between the haves and have-nots, envisages a classless society. Science fiction, in contrast, assumes a fictious world, not of humans alone, but of a macrocosm of living and non-living creatures including human, non-human or subhuman entities. When the divergent communities co-exist within the same planet, there arises a dissonance. Posthuman theory assumes that “the dividing line between human, non-human or the animal is highly permeable.” There is quite a good number of Science fictions that conjures up towards a posthuman future. Even though, seemingly divergent aspects, Marxian and Posthuman theory, both presumes a fictional world. The first surmises on an ideal utopia of class-less society of unique economic equality, the second foresees a futuristic world of humans- less than or more than ‘humans.’ Nancy Kress’ Beggars in Spain is a typical science fiction which tells the negative impact of genetic engineering. A few fortunate parents who could afford the expensive genetic engineering, was able to brought about a new generation of sleepless children with unique features. But those without any alterations, remained as sleepers. In the long run, the ordinary humans seemed to lose the race with the much productive individuals, who is having a bonus of sleeping hours and much more added advantages. The conflict results in a class struggle of ‘haves and have-nots’. Marxian view of the class struggle between the proletariat and the aristocrats can be analyzed on par with the classification of individuals purely based on their talents whether they inherited or purposefully custom-made. The present scrutiny rounds off the assertion that, there is no ultimate victory over the war of human and posthuman races.
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Margaret Karunya, R. "Exploring the Compex Bonds Between The Human and Robots in H.g. Wells’ The War of the Worlds." Shanlax International Journal of English 12, S1-Dec (December 14, 2023): 469–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/rtdh.v12is1-dec.66.
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Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that explores imaginative and futuristic concepts often grounded in scientific principles, technology, or extraterrestrial elements with horrific events. It often envisions alternative futures, advanced technologies, space exploration, and the impact of scientific advancements on society, providing a platform for creative exploration of “what if” scenarios and the consequences of scientific or technological changes. Recent researches concentrate on how scientific advancements escort human race. This essay takes H.G. Wells, one of the best prolific writers of scientific fiction, “The War of Worlds” to bridge the association between literature and science. The narrative within the novel escorts the reader to hold societal perceptions and implication of human-robot interactions as Wells suggests. Changes are natural universally that can be approximated not assured.The first modern tale of alien invasion, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential of all science-fiction works.
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McLeod, Ken. "Space oddities: aliens, futurism and meaning in popular music." Popular Music 22, no. 3 (October 2003): 337–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143003003222.
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Despite the rampant popularity of space, alien and futuristic imagery in popular culture, little scholarship has recognised the impact of such themes on popular music. This article explores the complex relationship between the numerous uses of space, alien and techno futuristic themes in popular music and the construction of various marginalised identities. Arranged roughly chronologically from early 1950s rock and roll to late 1990s techno, I discuss how many artists, such as Bill Haley, David Bowie and George Clinton, have used such imagery to promote various nonconformist ideologies and identities ranging from African-American empowerment to Gay and Lesbian agendas. This article also relates developments in scientific space research and popular science fiction culture to corresponding uses of space and alien imagery in various forms of popular music. In general, popular music's use of futuristic space and alien themes denotes a related neo-Gnostic withdrawal and alienation from traditionally dominant cultural structures in an attempt to unite us with a common ‘other’ that transcends divisions of race, gender, sexual preference, religion or nationality.
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Agin Donmez, Basak. "A Turkish Posthumanist Perspective in Science-Fiction: Ecocritical Approaches in Özlem Ada’s Embriyogenesis." Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 3, no. 2 (October 6, 2012): 122–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.37536/ecozona.2012.3.2.476.
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The world of science-fiction in Turkey is like a closed circuit, only supported by fans and authors, but an outstanding example, Özlem Ada's Embriyogenesis (1997), provides the reader with a unique experience in the two stories titled "Hisse Senetleri" and "Çaya Yetiştirilir," which can be respectively translated as "Share Certificates" and "You Can Be Ready for Tea Party." Both stories are analyzed in this paper with an ecocritical approach to science-fiction as regards how this genre plays a crucial role in broadening the horizons of ecocriticism. The posthumanist perspective of the author offers the reader a chance to interrogate how traditional science-fiction uses apocalyptic and complacent modes to create futuristic images of the world. Ada's stories are exceptional to the Turkish science-fiction genre as they are environmentally oriented. Resumen El mundo de la ciencia ficción en Turquía es como un circuito cerrado, sólo apoyado por fans y autores; pero un ejemplo destacado, Embriyogenesis (1997) de Özlem Ada, proporciona al lector una experiencia única en las historias tituladas "Hisse Senetleri" y "Çaya Yetiştirilir", que podrían traducirse como “Compartir certificados” y “Puedes estar listo para la fiesta del té”. En este ensayo se analizan ambas historias desde un enfoque ecocrítico en lo referente a cómo la ciencia ficción tiene un papel crucial a la hora de ampliar los horizontes de la ecocrítica. La perspectiva posthumanista de la autora ofrece al lector la oportunidad de cuestionarse cómo la ciencia ficción tradicional usa el modo apocalíptico para crear imágenes futuristas del mundo. Las historias de Ada son excepcionales en el género de la ciencia ficción turca por su orientación medioambiental.
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Adán Ríos, Alfredo. "Neuro-Legal Sciences from a Neo Contemporary and Futuristic Perspective." European Journal of Law and Political Science 1, no. 5 (November 4, 2022): 13–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejpolitics.2022.1.5.34.
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This article is conducted according to a documentary theoretical investigation under a proposal that claims to have foundations of realistic orthodox scientific rigor because it is not a science fiction novel rather it is a realistic framework of what happens in the neo-contemporary progress to axioms Futurists that can be seen as retro-futuristic phenomena in terms of the applicability of the sciences of “complexity” as they call it today for the progress of neuro-legal sciences at an international and national level in any entity. This in order to see the scope before a critical point in the face of its infinitesimal axioms that collaborative fields of high scientific specialty can provide, of which are the experimental cognitive theoretical neurophysics in auxiliary support to the evolutionary and biophysically inspired computational cognitive neurosciences. Its primary scope is to recapitulate the greatest advances from a current perspective of the developments that the scientific community wants to achieve to support said theoretical application fields from which this documentary contribution can be based and a theoretical proposal of how these advances can reach their point evolution critic to his ultimate axiom of development.
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Pausz, Thomas. "Making New Land: An Intertidal Aesthetics." Performance Philosophy 6, no. 2 (November 1, 2021): 174–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.21476/pp.2021.62328.
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Making New Land is an essay in theory-fiction set in a near future, where the oceans have disappeared. In these devastated landscapes, a first person narrator investigates unsolved biological enigmas on Earth and on Mars. In the footsteps of a fictional group of Anarcho-botanists called Sea for Space, the story alternates a melancholic longing for the beauty of intertidal and coastal lifeforms with futuristic visions of new species engineered by humans as new companions. The scenario explores archetypal figures of plant-human coexistence: from the botanical gaze to a nostalgic longing for connection, and from the hubris of genetical engineering to the dream of a post-humanism communion with the vegetal. The fictional story is interwoven with scholarly references and a critical discussions of artistic and literary works dealing with the fauna, flora and mythologies of the seaside, which form the outlines of an 'Intertidal Aesthetics'.
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Vijayasekaran, P., and G. Alan. "The Future of Colonialism in Australian Indigenous Fiction – A Psychoanalytic Study of Trauma in The Swan Book and Terra Nullius." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 12, no. 8 (August 1, 2022): 1664–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1208.25.
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The goal of this study is to examine the colonial concerns depicted in the futuristic Australian fictions Terra Nullius and The Swan Book. The Swan Book, a 2013 Australian novel by Alexis Wright, digs deeply into subjects like climate catastrophes and the repressive condition of the natives in a future Australia. Claire G. Coleman's fantasy novel Terra Nullius, on the other hand, presents a futuristic Australia in which many colonial themes are subtly and implicitly depicted. This research article aims to emphasize the aftermath effects of colonization and to put together how they are thinking about Australia’s problems in the future by analyzing the two novels of these indigenous authors using important psychoanalytic theories. This study also highlights the impact of magic realism in these texts.
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Jakovljević, Mladen. "Titus Groan's journey: From Gormenghast to the City." Зборник радова Филозофског факултета у Приштини 50, no. 3 (2020): 175–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/zrffp50-28327.
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The protagonist's passage from the world of Gormenghast in Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan and Gormenghast, the first two volumes of the story, to the futuristic world of the City in the third volume, Titus Alone, is often seen as a break between the two worlds. This unexpected passage from one world to another also brings an unexpected switch to science fiction. Both these changes, the passage to another, radically different world and a shift to science fiction, are not so abrupt or radical as they may seem on the surface. Placing the Gothic and science fiction features into the spotlight, while not denying the existence and importance of others, can show how the reality in the trilogy is shaped, how its two worlds are connected into a whole, and how they give one another shape in the overall picture of Gormenghast. Together, they can add to the illumination of the anomaly of Mervyn Peake's story of Gormenghast.
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Żółkoś, Monika. "Fikcje antropocenu. Literatura XXI wieku wobec katastrofy klimatycznej." Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne, no. 15 (December 19, 2022): 6–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/jk.2022.15.01.
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This article explores narrative trajectories of conceptualizing climate change in modern literature. The main goal is to extend frames of Anthropocene fiction beyond science fiction genre in novels written in the twenty-first century. Taking humanistic approach to climate crisis as a starting point, the article concentrates on strand of literature based on realistic convention that presents planetary crisis not as futuristic phantasy but as contemporary process. Drawing on the work of Richard Powers, Maja Lunde, Charlotte McConaghy, Barbara Kingsolver, Sigriđur Hagalin Björnsdóttir, and Hanya Yanagihara, I argue that thay create subgenre od climate fiction that present planetary catastrophe in non-spectacular and unconventional way to regain affective power of literature and provoke imagination. Another important aspect is narrative construction of time in their novels, which concentrate on compering different moments in planetary chronology to present human kind as one of many episodes in process of life shaping on Earth and thereby to challenge anthropocentric approach to problem of climate change.
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Mirenayat, Sayyed Ali, Ida Baizura Bahar, Rosli Talif, and Manimangai Mani. "Beyond Human Boundaries: Variations of Human Transformation in Science Fiction." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 7, no. 4 (April 1, 2017): 264. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0704.04.
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Science Fiction is a literary genre of technological changes in human and his life; and is full of imaginative and futuristic concepts and ideas. One of the most significant aspects of Science Fiction is human transformation. This paper will present, firstly, an overview on the history of Science Fiction and some of the most significant sci-fi stories, and will also explore the elements of human transformation in them. Later, it will explain the term of transhumanism as a movement which follows several transformation goals to reach immortality and superiority of human through advanced technology. Next, the views by a number of prominent transhumanists will be outlined and discussed. Finally, three main steps of transhumanism, namely transhuman, posthuman, and cyborg, will be described in details through notable scholars’ views in which transhuman will be defined as a transcended version of human, posthuman as a less or non-biological being, and cyborg as a machine human. In total, this is a conceptual paper on an emerging trend in literary theory development which aims to engage critically in an overview of the transformative process of human by technology in Science Fiction beyond its current status.
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Dong, Fuwen, and Yuqi Ruan. "Globalization and Commercial Analysis of Science Fiction Films: Observing Regional Markets, Production Costs, and Marketing Strategies." Highlights in Business, Economics and Management 22 (December 27, 2023): 201–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/2r7zg094.
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In an age of unprecedented connectivity and cultural exchange, the world of cinema has undergone a paradigm shift that transcends borders and challenges traditional notions of storytelling and commercial success. Central to this transformation is the genre of science fiction films, which has emerged as a captivating canvas for exploring futuristic visions and probing the boundaries of human imagination. The interplay between globalization and the commercial dynamics of science fiction films has sparked a new era of creativity, collaboration, and cross-cultural resonance within the film industry. Furthermore, the pursuit of blockbuster visuals, often associated with Hollywood productions, has led to substantial shifts in production costs. These costs, in turn, wield a direct influence over the scale and quality of science fiction films, shaping their narrative depth and technological prowess. As the cinematic landscape extends its boundaries, effective marketing strategies have emerged as a linchpin for success. Striking the delicate balance between global outreach and localized engagement is paramount, as it dictates how a film resonates with its audience and finds its place in the global arena. In conclusion, a profound comprehension of these intricate and interwoven dynamics is indispensable for filmmakers, studios, and scholars seeking to navigate the ever-evolving global tapestry of science fiction cinema.
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Siham Hattab Hamdan, Dr. "kamaugawar and the creation of a dystopian reality: A study in hassan Blasim's "Crossword" and Ambrose Bierce's "Chi." لارك 3, no. 42 (June 30, 2021): 1206–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.31185/lark.vol3.iss42.1947.
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The study shows how war can create a dystopian reality worse than the reality depicted in the dystopian stories. War creates a circular or enclosed world that has no exit where people cannot see the end of the tunnel. The study discusses two short stories, one is for the Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim entitled "Crosswords" and the other for the American writer Ambrose Bierce entitled "Chickamauga". These two short stories fit one of the categories of dystopian fiction where the society witnesses the effects of war and civilians and soldiers become the victims. Though the two stories do not adhere to the futuristic perspective of dystopian fiction, they could express the thought of their writers' that what is going on in the society though it is real but it is at the same time, dystopian.
Key Words: Dystopia, War, Defamiliarization, Hassan Blasim, Ambrose Bierce.
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Yoo, Sang-Keun. "Mobilities in Anglophone Science Fiction History: Time Travel, Cyclical Temporality, and Virtual Mobility." Center for Asia and Diaspora 13, no. 2 (August 31, 2023): 40–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.15519/dcc.2023.08.13.2.40.
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This paper explores the development of the concept of mobility within the Anglophone tradition of the science fiction genre, specifically within three critical periods of the twentieth century. It begins by analyzing the genre’s initial development, observing the shift from spatial mobility in earlier travel narratives to temporal travel depicted by foundational science fiction writers, such as H. G. Wells and Jules Verne. It then examines the New Wave of science fiction during the 1960s and 70s, a period characterized by introspective exploration of the human psyche and a departure from linear temporality, favoring instead an antiprogressive, circular concept of time. Key authors of this era, including William S. Burroughs, Thomas M. Disch, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Samuel R. Delany, are broadly studied. The paper subsequently probes into the cyberpunk genre and its development of virtual mobility within cyberspace, along with a critical analysis of the socio-political issues emanating from the dominance of white normativism and ableism within these virtual environments. In conclusion, this paper emphasizes the necessity to consider a more inclusive depiction of mobility in science fiction, as well as the co-futuristic socio-political ideologies that the genre upholds. It advocates for the genre to foster diverse representations of mobility, thereby challenging the normalization of an abled, white American presence within cyber and virtual spaces.
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Zoran, Amit, and Marcelo Coelho. "Cornucopia: The Concept of Digital Gastronomy." Leonardo 44, no. 5 (October 2011): 425–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_00243.
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The authors present a new concept of digital gastronomy—Cornucopia, a futuristic cooking methodology based on digital technologies. They discuss how they have merged kitchen tools with science fiction and actual technologies to create this new design space for gastronomy. The Virtuoso Mixer, the Digital Fabricator and the Robotic Chef were conceptualized to enable more flexibility and control over each of the most important elements of cooking: mixing ingredients, modeling food shapes and transforming edible matter from one state to another. The authors discuss related work and ideas, present their designs and propose their vision for the emerging design space of digital gastronomy.
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Perkins, Tanya. "Strang(er) Places: Collaborative Creativity in Real and Virtual Spaces." Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology 8, no. 1 (August 6, 2019): 99–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.14434/jotlt.v8i1.26744.
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In the writing classroom, collaborative learning often takes the form of co-authoring, peer workshops or critique sessions. While useful, what other active learning approaches might be effective, particularly in light of the range of media with which students are increasingly familiar? World-building—creation of an alternative/speculative or futuristic land, world or universe—offers an approach to fiction writing amenable to both creative collaboration and digital modalities. This article examines how a team-based world-building project in an advanced writing course engenders creative-making through active learning and collaboration; builds upon the multi-modalities and genres through which many students already engage with fiction (video, online and/or fantasy role-playing games, horror, speculative and science fiction); and leverages both physical and virtual space as creative collaborative environments. With this approach, students in a seated class team up to create original alternative worlds in an online environment--including production of both digital and physical artifacts--within which their own (individual) stories are set. The result is movement between real and virtual space, as well as between shared creative acts and personal imaginative writing.
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Mazurkiewicz, Adam. "O (nie tylko estetycznych) pożytkach z lektury fantastyki naukowej." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 52, no. 3 (December 13, 2021): 9–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.621.
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The article is devoted to the potential benefits of a variety of natures from reading science fiction. They are divided into aesthetic and non-artistic, related to the functioning of this phenomenon in the congregational imagination, which models and at the same time is modelled by it. Given the properties of science fiction and its role in the reading circuit, one can conclude about the importance of science fiction as an artistic formula that approximates both the future and the dilemmas of the present, hidden in a futuristic stack of props (this is evident especially when reading socio-political fiction). At the same time, the reading experience contradicts such a high rating of science literature, most often – above – aspiring only to readily attractive “adventurials in space/cyberspace”. Indeed, if there are any advantages of reading science fiction, it must be realised, first of all, that they depend mainly on the expectations of the audience; their reading attitude (that is whether they will treat science fiction as a manifestation of literary escapism, or perhaps a medium of important socio-civilizational issues). However, readers who treat novels in an escapist way can be contrasted with those who equate it with the specific language of discourse over the present day. Therefore, it is important how the author will treat the chosen convention: as an excuse to present further “adventure in space”, or as an opportunity to look at the present from a special perspective, which is provided by the narrative future of action time of science fiction novels. Only then will it be possible to speak of the benefit of reading science fiction, which is more or less indirectly linked to the life of the reader.
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Sevilla-Vallejo, Santiago. "The Search for Koinos Kosmos in Philip K. Dick’s Fiction." Journal of Critical Studies in Language and Literature 1, no. 3 (August 18, 2020): 56–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.46809/jcsll.v1i3.28.
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As it has been previously studied, Philip K. Dick's work raises existential questions that do not have a clear answer, but theyinvite us to seek the truth. One of the essential themes in his writings is that our perception about reality is false (IdiosKosmos) In this sense, Philip K. Dick's statements and novels consider that human life is a constant struggle with obstacles.This paper analyses how his biography and readings led him to form a philosophical attitude that was essential in hiswritings. Then, the motives that distort the experience and the process of searching for the true reality are compared in threenovels. On the one hand, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ubik show different futuristic dystopias where humanvalues are endangered. On the other hand, VALIS is about the search of transcendence from a more realistic andautobiographical approach. The aim of this article is to reflect about the search of the koinos kosmos contained in these threenovels.
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Polak, Iva. "Native Apocalypse in Claire G. Coleman’s The Old Lie." Humanities 9, no. 3 (July 28, 2020): 69. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9030069.
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Claire G. Coleman’s science fiction novel The Old Lie (2019) evokes the blemished chapters of Australia’s history as the basis of a dystopian futuristic Earth. By using the metaphor of a secular apocalypse (Weaver) wrapped in the form of a space opera, she interrogates historical colonialism on a much larger scale to bring to the fore the distinctive Indigenous experience of Australia’s terra nullius and its horrific offshoots: the Stolen Generations, nuclear tests on Aboriginal land and the treatment of Indigenous war veteran, but this time experienced by the people of the futuristic Earth. Following a brief introduction of the concept of the “Native Apocalypse” (Dillon) in the framework of Indigenous futurism, the paper discusses Coleman’s innovative use of space opera embedded in Wilfred Owen’s famous WWI poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”. The analysis focuses on four allegedly separate stories in the novel which eventually interweave into a single narrative about “the old lie”. In keeping with the twenty-first-century Indigenous futurism, Coleman’s novel does not provide easy answers. Instead, the end brings the reader to the beginning of the novel in the same state of disillusionment as Owen’s lyrical subject.
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Priyadharshini, S. Sarayu, and S. Patchainayagi. "Impact of Artificial Intelligence, Bio Terrorism and Corporate Culture in Society: A Post-Modernist Critique on ‘Windup Girl’." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 12, no. 10 (September 30, 2022): 2048–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1210.11.
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Bio Terrorism is a form of terrorism in which biological agents such as pathogens, fungi, viruses, and toxins are deliberately unleashed onto the world in order to kill a wide range of humans. Bio punk theory investigates the ramifications that are most commonly associative to the rapid advances made in the field of biotechnology, synthetic biology, and agricultural biotechnology. Bio Punk is the futuristic derivative of cyberpunk theory, subgenre of science fiction. Paolo Bacigalupi's "Windup Girl" depicts the impact of corporate culture and how an advance in biotechnology eventually leads to bioterrorism. This article delves into the topic of Artificial Intelligence, bioterrorism, corporate culture, and its impact on people and society.
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Spennemann, Rudolf, and Lindy A. Orthia. "Creating a Market for Technology through Film: Diegetic Prototypes in the Iron Man Trilogy." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 47, no. 2 (March 31, 2023): 225–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.24053/aaa-2022-0013.
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Fiction presents a version of reality that can affect an audience’s perceptions and beliefs. This effect is amplified in audio-visual media, where the medium helps convince the viewer that what they are watching is real. Scientists consulting on films have used this effect to promote their own agendas, including using what David Kirby has called ‘diegetic prototypes’ – fictional instances of not-yet realized technologies. These operate like a regular prototype, demonstrating the technology’s function, uses, and implications. They can build anticipation for, and acceptance of, emerging technologies, and can even attract funding to construct those technologies in real life. There has, however, been little scholarship to determine what makes an effective diegetic prototype. We used the Iron Man trilogy of science-fiction films to investigate this. Through a survey and focus groups we explored which futuristic technologies viewers remembered from the films, and whether they anticipated and encouraged those technologies’ development. We found that film-making concerns such as a depicted technology’s relationship to the plot or main characters, and its capacity for spectacle, were more important in fixing the prototype in the audience’s mind than the nature of the technology itself. We also found audiences anticipated and encouraged the development of technologies they saw as morally good. We recommend people wanting to use diegetic prototypes design them to have both a significant on-screen presence and to be depicted as being generally benevolent, the upsides outweighing the downsides.
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Dziurzyńska, Magdalena. "“Hope as the Engine for Imagining Utopia”: A Dream of a World Beyond Gender." Studia Litteraria 16, no. 2 (2021): 89–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843933st.21.008.13652.
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By analyzing the depiction of androgyny in Marge Piercy’s science fiction novels in the context of gender performativity and constructionism, this article demonstrates that androgyny may be used as a tool for deconstructing gender roles. Arguably, Piercy proposes a new, non-essentialist vision of humankind through the creation of androgynous or agender human and cybernetic bodies. Moreover, the article substantiates how the images of utopian worlds, which present futuristic hope, are connected with the postgender idea of gender transcendence, while the dystopian ones seem to be strongly related to gender essentialism. „Utopia jako nadzieja”: w stronę świata poza granicami płci Poprzez analizę przedstawienia androginii w powieściach science fiction autorstwa Marge Piercy w kontekście performatywności płci i konstrukcjonizmu niniejszy artykuł pokazuje, że androginia może być wykorzystywana jako narzędzie dekonstrukcji ról płciowych. Piercy proponuje nową, nie esencjonalistyczną wizję ludzkości poprzez tworzenie androgynicznych lub agenderowych ludzkich i cybernetycznych ciał. Ponadto artykuł ukazuje, w jaki sposób obrazy utopijnych światów, które niosą z sobą futurystyczną nadzieję, wiążą się z postgenderową ideą transcendencji płci, podczas gdy dystopijne światy wydają się silnie powiązane z esencjalizmem płciowym.
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Guangzhao, LYU. "Patior Ergo Sum: Data Surveillance and Necropolitics in Han Song’s Hospital Trilogy." Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 35, no. 2 (December 2023): 388–417. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/mclc.2023.0041.
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The science fiction writer Han Song's trilogy Hospital, published between 2016 and 2018 in China, presents an eerie world of eternal pain within futuristic hospitals. With Michael Berry's translation coming out from January 2023, this work by one of the most well-known writers of contemporary Chinese science fiction is made available to an English readership. This article interrogates the nature of this pain which articulates not an impending risk of death but the patients’ inability to die. Through a process of datafication and digitalization, the patients are converted into streams of algorithmic codes and dehumanized as digital “profiles” to be collected, deposited, and re-accessed. These “profiles” become sophisticated enough to develop their own agency that replaces the patients as the targets of biopolitics, indicating an ontological transition that disempowers human beings and subjectivizes the meta-being of the patients’ digital “changelings.” I argue that this ontological transition signals a historical change in governmentality, epistemology, and political economy, gesturing towards new methods for the governance and commodification of populations in a discourse of patior ergo sum — I suffer, therefore I am.
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Hardy, Sylvia. "A Story of the Days to Come: H.G. Wells and the Language of Science Fiction." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 12, no. 3 (August 2003): 199–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09639470030123002.
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This article argues that, unlike most other science fiction writers, H.G. Wells gives considerable attention to language and language change in his futuristic writing; this is because he was, from the beginning of his career, fascinated by the ways in which language had shaped human lives and cultures. In many of the early scientific romances, particularly The Time Machine and The Island of Dr Moreau, failures in communication play an important part in the events of the story. In the later utopias such as The World Set Free and The Shape of Things to Come, Wells makes English the basis of a new world language, which plays an essential part in establishing social cohesion and extending the cognitive powers of the individual citizen.
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Brzostek, Dariusz. "Constructing African future: Africa and African people in Polish science fiction of the socialist era." Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, no. 3 (49) (2021): 479–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843860pk.21.033.14353.
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The paper’s main objective is to analyse the visions of an African future in the Polish Socialist Era science fiction. Speculative fiction played an important part in the cultural landscape of socialist Poland, being integral to the popular culture as well as to communist propaganda. The image of a communist future was a major motif in the early Socialist Era science fiction narratives and also the impressive political forecast of the final worldwide triumph of the Communist Party. These narratives also included some interesting examples of the African future and the African people in the futuristic communist world: the Black communist and astronaut, Hannibal Smith, as the main character of The Astronauts [Astronauci, 1951] by Stanisław Lem; the African astronauts in The Magellanic Cloud [Obłok Magellana, 1955] by Stanisław Lem and the story of the African slaves’ rebelion against the capitalists on the space station Celestia in the novel by Krzysztof Boruńand Andrzej Trepka The Lost Future [Zagubiona przyszłość, 1953]. Lem’s novels were also adapter into films: The Magellanic Cloud as The Voyage to the End of the Universe (Ikarie XB-1, 1963, directed by Jindřich Polák), The Astronauts as First Spaceship on Venus (Der schweigende Stern, 1960, directed by Kurt Maetzig) – in which the Nigerian actor, Julius Ongewe, appeared as a very first African astronaut in the history of cinema.
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Salnikova, E. V. "Algol. Tragedy of Power (1920) as Futuristic Peplum and the “Rehearsal” of Metropolis." Art & Culture Studies, no. 2 (June 2021): 286–321. http://dx.doi.org/10.51678/2226-0072-2021-2-286-321.
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The article is devoted to the recently found and restored film Algol. The Tragedy of Power (1920) by Hans Werckmeister, combining an adventurous beginning, fantasy, career history and family history. This is one of the earliest stories predicting the processes of globalization. The author examines the visual originality of the picture, which includes both expressionist scenes and out-of-style fragments, dwells in detail on some camera solutions. Analyzes the plot of the film, combining science and unscientific fiction with references to the series of novels (Rougon-Maccara by Zola, The Forsyte Saga by Galsworthy, Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann) and the myth of Faust. Along with the development of the image of the modern urban environment and the civilization of the future, the images of nature play an important role: nature, included in the technogenic civilization, and self-sufficient nature, which helps the rural working people to survive. The image of the main character, Robert Hern, performed by the outstanding German actor Emil Jannings, is examined in detail. The author reflects on the paradoxical connection between the fantastic world of the film and some motives of Peplum.
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Guzek, Mariusz. "Jak kino czechosłowackie detonowało bombę atomową, czyli o czym opowiada film Jindřicha Poláka Jutro wstanę rano i oparzę się herbatą (1977)." Przegląd Humanistyczny, no. 1 (April 26, 2017): 91–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0009.9229.
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Jindřich Polák’s film Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (Zítra vstanu a opařím se Cajeme) of 1977 is neither the first nor the last attempt to “detonate” an atomic bomb by the Czech filmmakers. However, this science fiction comedy uses the Wells’s concept of time travel to entertain a viewer with what the contemporary discourse calls the counterfactual history or simply considerations on “what if...”. The film was made in the peak period of normalization, thus all the historiosophical, ideological or political allusions are deeply hidden. Despite the futuristic context, diegesis is recognizable and contemporary at the same time, and thus full of ambiguous motivations of characters. The atomic bomb, therefore, is not merely a decorative artifact around which the main characters move.
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ZHOU, Yue. "The Representation of the Anthropocene in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction." IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies 9, si (June 7, 2024): 115–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.9.si.06.
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Contemporary Chinese science fiction (SF) is preoccupied with the representation of the Anthropocene. Wu Ming-yi’s The Man with the Compound Eyes (2011) and Hui Hu’s The Azure Tragedy (2018) are stand-out examples. In light of the framework of ecocriticism, it is found that both writers challenge long-seated anthropocentric thinking and practices in their catastrophic narration of human-induced plastic pollution in the marine environment, increased extinction of species by human overharvesting, and the human-induced general destruction of nature. Both connect natural disasters to human causes and reflect on human supremacy. The futuristic imaginations enabled by the SF genre effectively unfold the slow violence humanity commits and remains oblivious to. However, the criticism offered by the two authors is compromised to some extent. Hui Hu is optimistic about the new technology in dealing with anthropogenic eco-problems, while this technological triumph appears to sidestep the possibility of finding a more sustainable and once-and-for-all solution. Wu Ming-yi implies a new ethical perspective that rejects human centrality and reestablishes the human-nature relationship. On the other hand, he overlooks intra-human inequality in causing and forcing people to experience the eco-catastrophes. This article contributes to a new understanding of contemporary Chinese Anthropocene SF from an ecocritical perspective.
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Rodoreda, Geoff. "Climate Fiction and Disability: Enabled Futures in James Bradley's Clade (2015)." Antipodes 36, no. 1 (2022): 94–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/apo.2022.a906037.
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Abstract: James Bradley's futuristic novel Clade (2015) is not chiefly a story about human disability. It is a novel about climate crisis set across the course of the twenty-first century. But midway through the novel, we are introduced to a seven-year-old boy, Noah, who becomes a key character in the second half of the narrative. Noah is on the spectrum. Autistics decry their portrayal in fiction as aliens, as outsiders, as harbingers of disease and disorder, as beings without agency. As we get to know Noah as a boy, through his teenage years, and later on as an astronomer, his autism is neither denied nor made the defining characteristic of his personhood. Noah is given voice, perspective, and centrality as a rounded character, emerging as someone well suited to a future world reshaped by environmental crises and new social relations. He is not pathologized but socialized across the course of the novel into a world of family, friends, and work. Like his biblical namesake, Noah becomes a survivor in the new environmental and social spaces of the latter part of the twenty-first century.
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Saprykina, Elena Yu. "Humanized Artificial Body in the 20th Century Italian Literature." Studia Litterarum 5, no. 3 (2020): 186–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2020-5-3-186-199.
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In various epochs, science fiction writers shared an interest in problems related to the humanization of an artificial body and the process of human interaction with a man’s own creation. In the 20th century Italian literature, in particular, this theme emerged already at the dawn of the century (e.g. а futuristic novel by F.T. Marinetti) and was present up until the beginning of the current “age of artificial intelligence.” Fantastic plots of several short stories and novellas by D. Buzzati and T. Landolfi, written in the 1950s and 60s, depicted ambivalent perception of the technogenic civilization and its novelties by the modern cultural consciousness. On the one hand, these works reflected the turning of the machine into an indispensable attribute of the social status of the modern human, the guarant of her private life success and mental health. On the other hand, in science fiction, there is a clear tendency to dramatize the problems and difficulties that the technological age set for a human — in particular, the problem of preserving the privilege of the human consciousness over the increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence of the machine.
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D’ONOFRIO, SILVIO TAMASO, and ANDRÉ LUIZ SILVA DE SOUZA. "Ghost in the Shell as a Cyberpunk Rhapsody." LITERATURE AND FILM / LITTÉRATURE ET FILM / LITERATURĂ ȘI FILM 32, no. 2 (2024): 183–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.47743/aic-2023-2-0017.
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The article proposes a reading of one of the constituent aspects of the feature film Ghost in the Shell (2017), its plot, as a compendium of influences of what is usually considered to belong to the science fiction genre. According to the reading, the movie presents ideas and an aesthetics that points to the newest trends of science fiction, such as cyberpunk, suggesting passages of many previous films, something that can help draw the constitutive master lines of the plot as similar to the concept of rhapsody, an old, if not ancestral concept. In an attempt to understand this pendulum-like movement that presents the new but is made up of the past, one of the canons of Western literature of all times was sought as the theoretical support for an attempt to explore this old facet in a futuristic film. From this point of view, concepts such as mimesis and emulation were used in this approach to the filmographic version of the homonymous manga published in Japan in 1982, a film that presents itself as a challenging puzzle whose resolution finds, in this article, a beginning and also an incentive for future studies.
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Keba, Oleksandr. "GENRE AND STYLE INNOVATION OF THE NOVEL "SOLARIS" BY STANISLAVA LEMA." Fìlologìčnì traktati 14, no. 2 (2022): 56–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/ftrk.2022.14(2)-6.
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The novel "Solaris" occupies a key place in the creative biography of S. Lem. Starting with this work, the writer decisively departs from the utopian projects of the future, which at that time were spread in the most diverse versions. He also resolutely rejects the "adventure" and "technological" variants of the SF fiction. His attention is focused on the classic form of the novel with the minimum necessary technical conventions of depicting life in the future. Among other things, a new vector of literary searches required close attention to the development of various forms and means of psychologism, which revealed additional facets of Lem's talent. At the same time, it was not an ordinary return to the classics. Lem does not simply move from an impersonal form of narrative to an "I-narrative" delving into the character's self-reflection, – he forms the strategy of an «unreliable» narrator with numerous fields of uncertainty and inexplicability. So he actually anticipates the concepts of narrative discourse (J.F. Lyotard, P. Ricœur) and the ideas of receptive poetics and aesthetics (W. Iser, H. R. Jauss). The strategies presented in «Solaris» were not completely new to world literature, but for the science fiction it was a truly innovative phenomenon. From today’s height «Solaris» looks like an «untimely» novel that did not fit into the main trends in the development of modern science fiction. The dominants of the content and poetics of «Solaris» give reasons to consider the work is a futuristic existential novel.
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Balasubramanian, Balamuralikrishnan, Wenchao Liu, Karthika Pushparaj, and Sungkwon Park. "The Epic of In Vitro Meat Production—A Fiction into Reality." Foods 10, no. 6 (June 16, 2021): 1395. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods10061395.
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Due to a proportionally increasing population and food demands, the food industry has come up with wide innovations, opportunities, and possibilities to manufacture meat under in vitro conditions. The amalgamation of cell culture and tissue engineering has been the base idea for the development of the synthetic meat, and this has been proposed to be a pivotal study for a futuristic muscle development program in the medical field. With improved microbial and chemical advancements, in vitro meat matched the conventional meat and is proposed to be eco-friendly, healthy, nutrient rich, and ethical. Despite the success, there are several challenges associated with the utilization of materials in synthetic meat manufacture, which demands regulatory and safety assessment systems to manage the risks associated with the production of cultured meat. The role of 3D bioprinting meat analogues enables a better nutritional profile and sensorial values. The integration of nanosensors in the bioprocess of culture meat eased the quality assessment throughout the food supply chain and management. Multidisciplinary approaches such as mathematical modelling, computer fluid dynamics, and biophotonics coupled with tissue engineering will be promising aspects to envisage the future prospective of this technology and make it available to the public at economically feasible rates.
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Molella, Arthur, and Robert Kargon. "Atomville: Architects, Planners, and How to Survive the Bomb." Technology and Culture 64, no. 3 (July 2023): 823–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2023.a903974.
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abstract: In the post-Hiroshima era, atomic cities—designed to survive a nuclear attack—remain in the science fiction realm. Yet Hungarian émigré Paul Laszlo, a successful architect in Southern California suburbia, had a utopian vision for a futuristic, paradoxically luxurious atomic city he called "Atomville," never built but nonetheless seriously proposed. Laszlo was one of the very few architects known to venture into atomic survival on this scale. This article focuses on why the architectural profession for the most part ignored the issues raised by the atomic bomb, and on Laszlo's role as an outlier. It also deals with the genesis of Atomville and its place among the many unrealized ideas put forward in the 1940s and 1950s for urban survival, including underground buildings, urban dispersal, linear cities, and cluster cities.