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Imaginary politics: Climate change and making the future
Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 2017 Climate change places major transformational demands on modern societies. Transformations require the capacity to collectively envision and meaningfully debate realistic and desirable futures.
Manjana Milkoreit
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Vers une poétique culturelle du sonore science-fictionnel
ReS FuturaeLong studied primarily through its verbal and visual expressions, science fiction fully harnesses sound to evoke effects of estrangement and familiarity that contribute to the sensory, cognitive, and affective construction of its narratives and worlds ...
Guillaume Dupetit, Aurélie Huz
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Science Fiction and the Challenge of Genre
Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur StudiesThis article argues that Science Fiction, as a genre structured by technological metaphor and utopian displacement, exposes key limitations in Paul Ricœur’s hermeneutics of narrative fiction.
Kevin G. Chaves
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Predicting extreme defects in additive manufacturing remains a key challenge limiting its structural reliability. This study proposes a statistical framework that integrates Extreme Value Theory with advanced process indicators to explore defect–process relationships and improve the estimation of critical defect sizes. The approach provides a basis for
Muhammad Muteeb Butt +8 more
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A Journey to the City of Hope: Immigration, Diaspora and Identity in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl
Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 2021 The motif of journey constitutes one of the most important cornerstones of both postcolonial literatures and science fiction narratives, the latter of which owe a significant debt to the essentially colonial origins of the genre, thus inviting ...
Agnieszka Podruczna
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.The tribological behavior of 100Cr6 steel spheres textured via Vickers microindentation is evaluated under lubricated sliding by varying both dimple size and density. Fine and dense textures significantly reduce friction across all lubrication regimes, while large dimples increase it.
Farideh Davoodi +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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Science-fiction et cognition [PDF]
, 2002 Cet article tente de faire le point sur les contributions scientifiques de la psychologie cognitive à la théorie du genre, et celle du
Mather, Philippe D.
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TV Series, 2018 This paper describes how the science fiction television series Westworld (HBO, 2016-present) questions the very nature of consciousness through a reflexive narrative blending matters of free will and self interest with clues on how to write a serial ...
Florent Favard
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Against Genre/Theory: The State of Science Fiction Criticism
Poetics Today, 1991 Carl D. Malmgren +3 more
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