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A preferred reality: Film portrayals of robots and AI in popular science fiction

Journal of Science & Popular Culture, 2021
The increasing frequency and depth of human interaction with robots and artificial intelligence (AI) prompts this research study into how media-framed portrayals of technology in popular visual media might construct social reality.
Daniel Dieter, Elyse Gessler
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Science Fiction and Critical Theory

Science Fiction Studies, 1987
Noting the tendency of virtually every school of literary criticisin to privilege, expressly or implicitly, a particular genre, I argue that SF constitutes the generic space exalted by genuinely critical—that is, dialectical—theory.
Carl Freedman
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Science fiction, reconfigured social theory and the Anthropocene Age: exploring and thinking about planetary futures through fictional imaginaries

Global Discourse, 2020
Should humanity prepare for life on a less habitable planet? The magnitude of human activities indeed makes it necessary to think about their consequences and to consider tackling them with renewed imaginative foundations.
Yannick Rumpala
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Marxist theory and science fiction

, 2003
Marxism, science fiction and utopia Marxist theory has played an important role in sf criticism, especially in the last third of the past century. Since the 1960s, many of the most sophisticated studies of sf have been either explicitly Marxist in orientation or influenced by Marxist concepts adopted by feminism, race-criticism, queer theory and ...
István Csicsery-Rónay
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Change in Science Fiction Theory and Discourse: A Conceptual Ideology

2023
One of the peculiarities of the genre of science fiction is that many basic theoretical approaches and concepts referring to it are directly reflected in literary works. Change is such a key concept and a basis for the ideology of different kinds of change in the unique genre of science fiction, and as such, this concept is reflected in both science ...
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Catching Up with Wells: The Political Theory of H. G. Wells’s Science Fiction

Political Theory, 2017
Emma Planinc
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Theory of Mind and Science Fiction

, 2014
N. Pagan
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Latin American science fiction : theory and practice

Choice Reviews Online, 2012
M. E. Ginway, J. A. Brown
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Critical Theory and Science Fiction

Choice Reviews Online, 2000
Carl Freedman
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The role of science fiction perception on innovator: integrating the theory of planned behavior and social support network theory

Kybernetes, 2023
PurposeThis study aims to explore the influence of science fiction on innovators and present a comprehensive model using the theory of planned behavior and social support theory to discuss the impact of science fiction on the intention of becoming an ...
Jiale Zhang, Zongyuan Liu
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