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Articles de revues sur le sujet "Longevity – Fiction"
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Carnes, Bruce A., S. Jay Olshansky, Leonid Gavrilov, Natalia Gavrilova et Douglas Grahn. « Human Longevity : Nature vs. Nurture—Fact or Fiction ». Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 42, no 3 (1999) : 422–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pbm.1999.0023.
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Lacalle, Charo, Beatriz Gómez-Morales et Sara Narvaiza. « Friends or just fans ? Parasocial relationships in online television fiction communities ». Communication & ; Society 34, no 3 (31 mai 2021) : 61–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.15581/003.34.3.61-76.
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This paper explores parasocial phenomena on social media pages related to Spanish television fiction by analysing the development of parasociality through relationships established between users and characters and the characteristics of this type of online community. The sample consisted of 4,762 spontaneous comments posted on social media pages (1,598 on Facebook and 3,164 on Twitter) linked to television series. Comments published between 1 January 2018 and 31 May 2020 were compiled the day after the premiere of each fiction. Our findings confirm those of previous researchs on the similarity between parasocial relationships with fictional characters and relationships in real life. This study also substantiates that women’s comments show a greater tendency to draw associations between parasocial relationships and daily life. We also find a link between programme longevity and audience success on the one hand, and the intensity of parasocial relationships with the characters on the other. The relationships among community members reveal a degree of narcissism, prompting more self-disclosure than interaction with the rest of the users. Therefore, such relationships are closer to consociality (Kozinets, 2015) than parasociality, although significant differences concerning gender identity are also found in this context.
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Driver, Jane A. « Efforts to Extend the Human Lifespan : Separating Fact from Fiction ». Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica 78, no 298 S. Esp (19 juillet 2022) : 547–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.14422/pen.v78.i298.y2022.015.
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After retirement, older people often find themselves far from their children and grandchildren, and many spend their last years isolated and alone. As traditional concepts of family and social institutions fragment, social networks weaken, leading to an epidemic of loneliness, and substance abuse and suicide in developed countries. In fact, life expectancy in the US has dropped for the past few years, in large part due to a dramatic increase in suicide and drug overdose (ref). None of these social problems is likely to be solved by metformin. They point to a crisis of identity and meaning, an existential crisis. In this context, one might wonder if we are already seeing the effects of tinkering with our lifespan. There are many more conclusions one could draw about the implications of longevity, many of which have been elegantly described in Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness, published by the President’s Council on Bioethics, which I used as a reference for this talk. I hope I have been successful in providing a 10,000-foot view of the questions of efforts to extend human longevity and its implications that will provoke thought and discussion. I would like to end these reflections by turning back to my favorite transhumans. The reason we love superheroes is not for their superior strength or intelligence, but their characters. They use their powers to protect and serve humanity rather than dominate or annihilate it. It is not their gadgetry that makes them great, but how they use it to save the vulnerable. Even as a small child I knew that if everyone acted the way they did, the world would be a better place. The moral of every story was that the “enhancement” humanity needed would not come as the fruit of technology, but of virtue.
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Baker, Djoymi. « “Being the Spiders” : The Human-Animal in Kazuo Ishiguro’s and Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go ». Journal of Animal Ethics 11, no 2 (1 octobre 2021) : 97–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/janimalethics.11.2.0097.
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Abstract Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 science fiction novel Never Let Me Go and Mark Romanek’s 2010 film adaptation depict an alternate past in which human longevity is achieved by harvesting organs from clones. The clones seem ostensibly human and yet are considered nonhuman “creatures.” The book and film use differing strategies to align the nonhuman clones with nonhuman animals, a connection that is often ambivalent and contradictory. This article argues that through narrational and audio-visual address respectively, the reader and viewer are encouraged to bear witness from a liminal, creaturely position.
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Bogucki, Michael. « George Moore's Genres ». Victoriographies 6, no 3 (novembre 2016) : 200–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2016.0238.
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This essay examines George Moore's autobiographical writing, prose fiction, and criticism for new ways of understanding shared tensions between narrative and theatre conventions in the 1880s and 1890s. Defiantly experimenting with speculative and fictionalised reminiscence, inter-arts comparisons, and consideration of an artist's care for their own reputation, Moore offers a rich field for explorations of the longevity and obsolescence of textual forms. Moore's reminiscences of British and French Impressionist painters focus more intently on the emergence of their reputations than their actual technical innovations, extending a habit developed in his novels of the 1880s of treating artistic production as small cells of a much wider network of affiliated entertainment industries. Likewise, his alternately gossipy and prescient art and theatre criticism maps surprising relations between the reception of Japanese prints, naturalism in England, changing theatrical conventions, and the influence of print journalism in ways that defy the usual periodising histories of Victorian and Edwardian fiction.
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McMahon, Keith. « The Art of the Bedchamber and Jin Ping Mei ». NAN Nü 21, no 1 (18 juin 2019) : 1–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685268-00211p01.
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Abstract The ‘art of the bedchamber’ texts occupy a key place in pre-modern Chinese sexual culture, sharing that place with an even larger body of texts of later origin, the sexually explicit novels and stories of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, and Jin Ping Mei (The plum in the golden vase) in particular. The two genres – the texts of the bedchamber arts and Ming and Qing erotic fiction – have key commonalities, especially in the governing theme that not only must a man please a woman in sex, but that she is sexually formidable, and that he must be masterful in order to please her. Both genres center on the man’s relations with multiple women. But they differ because what appears as the art of sex in Ming and Qing fiction drastically reinvents the contents and spirit of the classic art of the bedchamber, which promotes sex as the harmonizing of yin and yang for the sake of nourishing health and longevity. Sex is measured and temperate, neither rushed nor violent. The art of sex in Ming and Qing fiction instead focuses on ways in which characters make themselves sexually powerful, usually by means of drugs and/or the use of special techniques, including those that absorb vital essences from their partners. Besides detailing these points, the article will analyze specific traces of the art of the bedchamber in Jin Ping Mei, such as the practices of kissing and absorbing saliva, the adoption of positions of intercourse, and the use of sexual devices, chemicals, and aphrodisiacs.
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JELFS, TIM. « Matter Unmoored : Trash, Archaeological Consciousness and American Culture and Fiction in the 1980s ». Journal of American Studies 51, no 2 (26 avril 2016) : 553–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875816000578.
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This article considers the cultural significance of the garbage panics of the 1980s, including the voyage of the infamous Mobro 4000 “garbage barge.” The article argues that the trash at the centre of these panics is important to our understanding of both the 1980s and the present because it demanded – and still demands – that Americans see and understand it as a class of matter unmoored from temporal as well as spatial boundaries. The alarming durability of the supposedly ephemeral refuse of a culture of mass consumption invoked an “archaeological consciousness” prone to muse upon the longevity of material remains. This consciousness was expressed in various cultural and discursive arenas throughout the 1980s, revealing that durable detritus was not just a pressing public policy issue but a marker of cultural anxieties emerging out of the operations of archaeological consciousness. From concerns about contingency of the mass-consuming culture of the late twentieth-century United States to reflections on trash's own epistemological complexity, trash spoke in unexpected ways throughout the 1980s, raising important questions about the relationship between producers of culture and their audience, whose receptiveness to the urgencies of archaeological consciousness suffers from a frustrating transience as far as trash is concerned.
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von Rosenberg, Ingrid. « Old Age as Horror Vision or Comfort Zone in the Late Fiction of Contemporary British Novelists ». Anglia 139, no 3 (1 septembre 2021) : 494–515. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ang-2021-0040.
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Abstract Old people have always figured in literature, but the unprecedented and worldwide growth of longevity in the twentieth century has triggered new fictional approaches to the topic of aging. Thus, since the late 1980 s, an ever growing number of established British writers, reaching their own advanced years, have written on age from an insider’s perspective, creating old main characters and focusing on their mental and physical experiences. I have examined six of such novels, published between 1986 and 2019, trying to find out how the authors construct their heroes’ and heroines’ aging selves by imagining their attitudes to certain central issues like time, death, physical decay and human relationships. Of the classical formative categories (gender, class, ethnicity, etc.) gender has proved to be the most essential, especially when it comes to the perspectives on time. While the view of heroes created by male writers remains fixed on the past, often with nostalgia, sometimes with regret, the women authors’ heroines focus on their present situation with a view to the future, represented by children and grandchildren. Class turned out to be a second important category: the (uncontemplated) safe middle-class position of all protagonists appears as an indispensable precondition for the free choice of attitude to the challenges of aging.
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Sum, Robert Kipkoech, Justus Kizito Siboe Makokha et 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 (13 juillet 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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Thomsen, Mads Rosendahl. « Posthuman Scale ». CounterText 2, no 1 (avril 2016) : 31–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/count.2016.0037.
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Visions of the posthuman are almost inevitably tied up with questions of scale. The size of Frankenstein's creation sets him apart from humanity, the longevity of Virginia Woolf's Orlando makes her / him uncannily posthuman, and the travels of Gulliver constantly confront the protagonist with the issue of physical scale. This article investigates different dimensions of posthuman scale with examples from fiction, film, and transhumanist writings. From the sizes of bodies and the length of lives to the more complex matters of the scale of consciousness and the magnitude of social connections, what happens when an element of human existence is changed and becomes either very large or very small is a recurrent and important question. Such changes have consequences for ethical dispositions towards the lives of others, for the aesthetic appreciation or dislike of new beings, and for the ability to envision completely new ways of connecting to the world and others, for example through a cloud of shared thoughts, as Olaf Stapledon imagined. One special case of posthuman scale is the replication of the individual and the number of possible lives an individual can live without losing individuality, a question that is also pivotal for the idea of the human as a simulation that has been proposed by writers, filmmakers, and futurists alike.
Livres sur le sujet "Longevity – Fiction"
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ill, Xu Lele 1955, dir. Ti deng jie. Nanchang Shi : Er shi yi shi ji chu ban she, 2016.
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Heinlein, Robert A. Methuselah's children. Riverdale, NY : Baen Books, 1958.
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Le Bourg, Éric. « The Fact and Fiction of Nutritional Claims About Health and Longevity ». Dans Healthy Ageing and Longevity, 617–30. Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83017-5_29.
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Taylor-Pirie, Emilie. « The Knights of Science : Medicine and Mythology ». Dans Empire Under the Microscope, 37–80. Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84717-3_2.
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AbstractIn this chapter Taylor-Pirie examines how parasitologists invoked myths of British nationhood in their professional self-fashioning to frame themselves as knights of science fighting on behalf of Imperial Britain. Analysing scientific lectures, political speeches, letter correspondence, obituaries, medical biographies, and journalistic essays, she draws attention to the prominence of Arthurian legend and Greco-Roman mythology in conceptualisations of parasitology, arguing that such literary-linguistic practices sought to reimagine the relationship between medicine and empire by adapting historical and poetic models of chivalry. In this way, individual researchers were lionised as national heroes and their research framed as labour that could command the longevity of legendary stories like those recounted in Homeric poems and medieval romance. In acclimatisation debates, the tropics were frequently conceptualised in relation to the Greek Underworld, a suite of references that together with dragon slaying and the quest narrative helped to position parasitology as a type of ‘crusading fiction’ in the context of the Victorian medieval revival.
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Falcus, Sarah, et Maricel Oró-Piqueras. « Ageing and generation in recent narratives of longevity ». Dans Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350230699.ch-003.
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Botelho, Teresa. « The cure for death : Fantasies of longevity and immortality in speculative fiction ». Dans Intelligence, Creativity and Fantasy, 431–36. CRC Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9780429297755-72.
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Gore, Clare Walker. « Coda ». Dans Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, 232–37. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474455015.003.0006.
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This coda traces the development of Henry James’s post-Darwinian disability plots in the modernist novel, indicating the ways that disability is used as a sign of outmoded values and experiences in texts by Lucas Malet, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence. It concludes by considering the persistence of the tropes this book has plotted through the field of Victorian fiction, arguing for their longevity and ongoing relevance.
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Westfahl, Gary. « The Conquest of Space ». Dans Arthur C. Clarke, 43–72. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041938.003.0005.
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This chapter describes how Clarke’s science fiction consistently advocates, and vividly depicts, humanity’s future achievements in space. Without providing a consistent “Future History,” his stories collectively argue that humans will gradually colonize space stations, the moon, Mars, and other planets and moons, though humans may never advance beyond the solar system. Clarke unusually acknowledges the need for computers in space, and instead of featuring pioneering expeditions, he usually focuses on the everyday lives of space colonists, emphasizing both the perils of space life and its potential benefits, such as greater longevity. Living aliens are rarely encountered, though evidence of ancient aliens may be detected. Clarke’s major novel about human space travel, Imperial Earth (1975), explores life on Titan by chronicling a resident’s visit to Earth.
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McCrea, Christian. « The Golden Path ». Dans Dune, 115–17. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325826.003.0006.
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This chapter examines the unexpected longevity of David Lynch's Dune, a film that was for many deemed dead on arrival. It assesses Dune's lasting legacy from absurd tie-in merchandise to incredible comic translations to the videogames that changed game history in significant ways. It also emphasizes how Lynch's Dune demands the attention like no other film as it unfolds ceremonially into a dream already in motion. The chapter discusses how Dune remains a focused, singular vision that startles and delights in its difference in the history of science-fiction cinema. It reviews every dashed hope and upraised hand of anguish that believed Dune's literary universe could be adapted if given the right conditions. It talks about how Dune represents so much to so many in search of parables of failure, promise, corrupt systems and ineffable creative possibility.
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Moss, Eloise. « A. J. Raffles ». Dans Night Raiders, 43–65. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198840381.003.0002.
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Arthur J. Raffles, fictional ‘cracksman’ by night and England cricketing star by day, burst onto the literary scene in 1898. Created by Ernest William Hornung, brother-in-law of Sherlock Holmes’ author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Raffles was Holmes’ antithesis: the fun-loving master thief. Embodying the ‘pleasure culture’ surrounding the burglar, Raffles’ physical attractiveness and athleticism blurred the lines between moral virtue and romantic allure. As the original novels were continually remade in theatre and film and their characters reincarnated in those media, newspapers began to label real burglars ‘Raffles’. This chapter examines how, where criminality was concerned, distinguishing between fact and fiction presented unnecessary (and unheeded) complications to commercial success. Espying an opportunity, ex-criminals appropriated this sympathetic ‘Raffles’ title for themselves, using the idea of ‘real-life Raffles’ to fashion glamorous celebrity personae through lucrative autobiographical writings. The character became an international phenomenon, beloved by audiences across Europe and America who flocked to see his exploits at the cinema and continually identified the burglar as an English ‘hero’, akin to Robin Hood. Yet Raffles was no philanthropist. Keeping the jewels for himself and glorifying in escaping capture by police, Raffles was a figure of danger for many contemporaries, who identified the longevity of his success as a harbinger of popular unrest caused by economic depression that might seduce generations of young people into a life of crime. The chapter historicizes how cultural responses to romanticized versions of burglary were conditioned by critiques of poverty and the habits of the wealthy.
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Edelstein, Sari. « Peculiar Forms of Aging in the Literature of US Slavery ». Dans Adulthood and Other Fictions, 44–70. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198831884.003.0003.
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The second chapter examines slavery’s distorting effects on age. It reveals how racism and slavery operate through age, buttressing a system that distributed maturity, and humanity, according to an invented logic that age discourse helped to naturalize. The chapter explores the vexed status of age under slavery Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and my Freedom (1855) and Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) as well as Federal Writers’ Project interviews with former slaves who seem to defy the boundaries of human longevity. These narratives acknowledge not merely the corruption of childhood but the exclusion from adulthood as among the most troubling aspects of slavery. Ultimately, they lament slavery’s use of age as a metric of economic value and a tool for dehumanization, and their narratives stage willful refusals to accommodate this logic.
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Zalasiewicz, Jan. « Perspective ». Dans The Earth After Us. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199214976.003.0006.
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The purest of science fiction. The Earth, in a post-human future, many millions of years hence, being re-explored. By . . . whom? Perhaps extraterrestrial explorers or colonists, just as we now peer at images of rock strata sent back by the Mars landers. Or perhaps a new, home-grown intelligence: say, a newly evolved species of hyper-intelligent rodent. No matter. What would such explorers, of whatever ancestry, find of our own, long-vanished, human empire? A frivolous question, perhaps. But perhaps not. It is hard, as humans, to get a proper perspective on the human race. We know that the Earth has a history that is long beyond human imagination, and that our own history is tiny by comparison. We know that we are animals, and yet we have transcended our natural environment to live in surroundings that, mostly, we have manufactured for ourselves. We know that this created environment is evolving at a speed that is vastly more rapid than the normal evolution of biological organisms or communities. We do not understand, quite, how our created environment and our activities interact with the natural environment, and we do not know what the long-term consequences will be. Let us take one view. We are simply one species out of perhaps 30 million currently inhabiting the planet (reputable estimates range from some 5 million to over 100 million). We are briefly in the golden age of our power, our dominance. But we are destined to extinction also, just as the dinosaurs became extinct. The world will then go on as before. Once a geological age or two has passed, there will be nothing but the odd bone or gold ring to show that we were ever here. In this scenario, comparison with the dinosaurs is apt. They were the top predators of their day, as our single species is now. But consider, also, the differences between us and the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs existed on this Earth for about a hundred million years, and included many species adapted to different environments. Homo sapiens is but one species, and has been around for less than a quarter of a million years, less than a tenth of an average species’ longevity.