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China’s Sci-Fi Images: Constructing Alternate Technological Futures [PDF]

Contexto Internacional
How 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, Héctor Luis Saint-Pierre   +1 more
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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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Human Culture and Science Fiction: A Review of the Literature, 1980-2016

SAGE Open, 2017
This article aimed to uncover the foci, themes, and findings of research literature that utilized science fiction content or concepts to describe and illustrate human culture.
Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Karen Diane Cheer   +1 more
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Fictioning Social Theory: the use of fiction to enrich, inform and challenge the theoretical imaginationa: Introduction

Digithum, 2019
The introduction to the special issue taps into discussions about the inseparability of science and fiction. Commencing from the idea that scientific statements are distinguished from fiction only a posteriori, not a priori, the piece asks, how fiction ...
Olli Pyyhtinen
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Littérature à potentiel heuristique pour temps incertains

Methodos, 2015
While the present time seems marked by high and even growing uncertainty, how to (re)gain holds on what is in the making and could form the future? This paper aims to show that science fiction provides a material which also has relevance and which can be
Yannick Rumpala
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Discourses in science fiction movies: science teaching and the production of meanings in the socio-environmental perspective

ACTIO: Docência em Ciências, 2018
This paper consists of discourse analysis of science fiction movies, with emphasis on the notions of environment, disciplinarity, neutrality and salvationism of Science.
Júlio César David Ferreira, Roberto Gonçalves Barbosa   +1 more
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Speculative Social Science Fiction of Digitalization in Higher Education: From What Is to What Could Be. [PDF]

Postdigit Sci Educ, 2022
Suoranta J, Teräs M, Teräs H, Jandrić P, Ledger S, Macgilchrist F, Prinsloo P.   +6 more
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APPROACH TO JULES VERNE'S NOVEL TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA THROUGH EXCERPTS FROM THE 7TH GRADE LITERATURE TEXTBOOK (2018 GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM)

Tạp chí Khoa học
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a great book by Jules Verne and a classic of the science fiction genre. In Vietnam, this novel was first included in the 2018 General Education Program as a primary reading material in the science fiction lesson ...
Nguyen Thi Cam Anh
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El otro lado

Sociología del Trabajo, 2015
En este cuento la autora juega con los argumentos desplegados en el libro de Amaia Pérez Orozco, Subversión feminista de la economía, mostrando cómo todos los géneros literarios son posibles en las ciencias sociales.
Sira del Río
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Seven science fictional affordances for technology assessment

TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis
This research article details an approach to using science fiction narratives in technology assessment (TA) developed by the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University.
Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Ruth Wylie
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