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The Present as Past: Science Fiction and the Museum
Open Library of Humanities, 2021 This article explores the role that science fiction (sf) texts might play in the museum, offering a perspective on acts of collection, curation, exhibition, and museum architecture, to ask what the museums of science fiction futures can offer those of us
Amy Butt
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Power of Vision. Hobbes’ De Homine between Optical and Political Science
Scienza & Politica, 2019 The essay proposes to read the political science of Thomas Hobbes in the light of his studies on optics, with particular reference to De homine. I intend to verify the relationship existing in Hobbes's thought between the development of the theory of ...
Mauro Farnesi Camellone
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Cartographier la science-fiction au théâtre
ReS Futurae, 2021 Science-fictional elements are present on the western stages of the 20th and 21st centuries: science-fiction takes several forms and assumes various functions.
Romain Bionda
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Transparent Minds in Science Fiction
, 2023 Transparent Minds explores the intersection between neuroscience and science fiction stories. Paul Matthews expertly analyses the narratives of humans and nonhumans from Mary Shelley to Kazuo Ishiguro across 200 years of the genre.
Matthews, Paul
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Ecocriticism and Terraforming: Building Critical Spaces
Forum, 2010 Science fiction employs a distinctive language to engage speculatively yet critically with our contemporary world. Space, with its discrete planetary bodies and other cosmic objects, functions both as an emblem of science fiction and operates in a more ...
CHris Pak
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ELOPE, 2018 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 ...
Ljubica Matek
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L’Image au pied de la lettre. L’imagerie aménageuse au prisme de la (climate) fiction
Les Cahiers de la Recherche Architecturale, Urbaine et Paysagère, 2023 The images produced by developers and real estate promoters are relatively homogeneous. Between commercial promise and optimistic prefiguration of future urban changes, they have little connection to other contemporary discourses, fictions and ...
Soline Nivet
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Investigações em Ensino de Ciências, 2021 This paper aims to understand the educational use of cinema in scientific communication in the context of a non-formal education, which included the debate with a guest after the presentation of the film, of the Sci-Fi genre, “Inception” for a diverse ...
Guilherme da Silva Lima +2 more
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JEANETTE WINTERSON’S “THE STONE GODS” AS AN EBULLITION OF GENRES
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2019 Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods as an Ebullition of Genres. This article examines, through the lenses of genre theory applied to The Stone Gods, the reasons why the novel has been harshly criticised for failing to satisfy as science fiction.
Alina PREDA
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Stephen Hawking: blending science with science fiction [PDF]
, 2018 Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking died recently at the age of 76. He was a man who had a significant influence on the way we view science today, noted for his work with Sir Roger Penrose on the singularities at the origins and future of the ...
Menadue, Christopher Benjamin
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