My boy builds coffins. Future memories of your loved ones [PDF]
, 2017 The research is focus on the concept of storytelling associated with product design, trying to investigate new ways of designing and a possible future scenario related to the concept of death.
Denaro, Gianni, Imbesi, Lorenzo
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BF‐ACS—Intelligent and Immutable Face Recognition Access Control System
IET Information Security, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.Biometric authentication is adopted in many access control scenarios in recent years. It is very convenient and secure since it compares the user’s own biometrics with those stored in the database to confirm their identification. Since then, with the vigorous development of machine learning, the performance and accuracy of biometric authentication have
Wen-Bin Hsieh, Wanli Wen
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Containment and nuclear memory in contemporary climate change fiction [PDF]
, 2020 Confronted with the global existential threat of climate change, human subjects in the Anthropocene must grapple with a parallel teleological crisis: how do we direct ourselves as individuals and collectives in the face of an ongoing global catastrophe ...
Ramuglia, River
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ELOPE, 2018 Margaret Atwood’s short prose piece, “Three Novels I Won’t Write Soon,” poses a conundrum for anyone seeking to place it within a genre. With features of science fiction, speculative fiction and a postmodern prose poem, the text addresses the topic of ...
Michelle Gadpaille
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SLOW VIOLENCE, CLI-FI, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHANGE HOW BIPOC FUTURISMS PROMOTE ACTIVISM [PDF]
, 2022 The threat of anthropogenic climate change is discussed almost exclusively in terms of “scientific” data to the exclusion of the humanities. For some worlds, climate change has already destroyed their ways of life and forced them to adapt.
Baeza, Francisco
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‘In the eyeblink of a planet you were born, died, and your bones disintegrated’: scales of mourning and velocities of memory in Philipp Meyer’s American Rust [PDF]
, 2017 As Dipesh Chakrabarty (2009) has famously argued, the advent of climate change requires us to think questions of capital alongside ideas of species. However, Tom Cohen (2012) contends, critical accounts of climate change have exhibited a tendency to ...
Bond, L., Bond, L.
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Geologies of Finitude: The Deep Time of Twenty-First-Century Catastrophe in Don DeLillo’s Point Omegaand Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia [PDF]
, 2016 The twenty-first century has seen a transformation of twentieth-century narrative and historical discourse. On the one hand, the Cold War national fantasy of mutually assured destruction has multiplied, producing a diverse array of apocalyptic visions ...
Bradley J. Fest, Bradley J. Fest
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Writing Our Climate Future: A “Cli-Fi” Writing Process for Students in the Anthropocene [PDF]
, 2022 Like Covid, climate change causes many students to feel afraid and powerless. By studying infographics on climate change, we can help students develop their 21st century literacy skills while educating them about climate change and its solutions.
Falkner, Shannon
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Charged Readings and Momentous Expectations: The Curious Case of Climate Change Fiction
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century WritingsThis article traces the inception, reception, and study of climate change fiction to show how profoundly awareness of anthropogenic climate crisis, and of the severity and scale of the collective human impact on the planet, have changed ways of reading ...
Hanne Bolze
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