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The collapse and the spiral: Law, culture and science fiction
This chapter introduces the volume and chapters to come. It begins by noting how science fiction is entwined with thinking about law, and especially how the sense of time – of pasts, futures and alternatives – resonates with legal thinking.
Green, Alex +3 more
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.A flexure‐based variable stiffness structure is developed by integrating phase‐change modulation and adhesive interfacial locking of gallium. The design enables a wide stiffness variability, transitioning from soft, flexible behavior to rigid, load‐supporting performance.
Sungjin Kim +2 more
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Creatio Fantastica, 2018 Reviewed book: Paweł Frelik, Kultury wizualne science fiction, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Universitas 2017, ISBN: 978-83-24227-00 ...
Jakub Alejski
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.A numerical–experimental framework is developed for characterizing multi‐matrix fiber‐reinforced polymers (MM‐FRPs) combining epoxy and polyurethane matrices. Harmonic bending tests are integrated with finite element model updating (FEMU) to simultaneously identify elastic and viscoelastic material parameters.
Rodrigo M. Dartora +4 more
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Science Fiction and Bodies of the Future: Alternative Gender Realities in Hollywood Cinema
, 2017 The science fiction genre has traditionally exemplified alternative forms of sexuality and/ or gender identities, providing with the ideal forum for any criticism on gender biased societies and behaviors. Taking into account that futures are always based
Carrasco, Rocío;Ordaz, Mercedes García;López, Francisco José Martínez
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Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung, 2019 The article discusses the Worlding SF conference that took place in Graz, Austria in December 2018. Over the course of the conference, three distinct strands of academic discussions emerged: (1) the criticism of science fiction as part of a multinational
Lars Schmeink
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Additive Gaussian Process Regression for Predictive Design of High‐Performance, Printable Silicones
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.A chemistry‐aware design framework for tuning printable polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) for vat photopolymerization (VPP) is developed using additive Gaussian process (GP) modeling. Polymer network mechanics informs variable groupings, feasible formulation constraints, and interaction variables.
Roxana Carbonell +3 more
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Towards a Language for Science Fiction Studies
M/C Journal, 2000 As the science fictional years come upon us -- 1999, 2000, 2001 -- there is a sense that this is the future, and nothing much has changed. Indeed, the future has turned out to be pretty much like the past, but with Tamagotchis and Karaoke. Beyond Darko Suvin's adoption of the term "novum" and the souls sold to the demons of postmodernism, the ...
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Science Fiction Literature in East Germany [PDF]
, 2018 East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a subversive space in another time and place. One of the country’s most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the party’s official version.
Fritzsche, Sonja
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China’s Sci-Fi Images: Constructing Alternate Technological Futures [PDF]
Contexto InternacionalHow does science fiction from the Global South contribute to the construction of alternative technological futures? In light of this question, we argue that, as a constitutive component of visions of the future, science fiction can support alternate and ...
Jonathan de Araujo de Assis +1 more
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