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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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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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 +1 more
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The Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 09): a report [PDF]
, 2009 The development of intelligent environments is considered an important step towards the realization of the ambient intelligence vision. Intelligent environments are technologically augmented everyday spaces, which intuitively support human activity.
Callaghan, Victor +4 more
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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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Des ruses du roman au sens de l’histoire dans l’oeuvre de Kourouma [PDF]
, 2006 L’article analyse les méandres de l’histoire et de la fiction dans les romans de Kourouma. Il vise à montrer la corrélation entre leurs aspects narratifs et thématiques. D’une part, l’unité de cette oeuvre iconoclaste se construit à partir des événements
Semujanga, Josias
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The role of literary fiction in facilitating social science research
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021 Scholars in literature departments and the social sciences share a broadly similar interest in understanding human development, societal norms, and political institutions.
Bryan Yazell +3 more
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Experiencing Multiple Realities: Alfred Schutz’s Sociology of the Finite Provinces of Meaning [PDF]
, 2018 This book offers a theoretical investigation into the general problem of reality as a multiplicity of ‘finite provinces of meaning’, as developed in the work of Alfred Schutz. A critical introduction to Schutz’s sociology of multiple realities as well as
Benta, Marius Ion
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Revisiting Galison’s ‘Aufbau/Bauhaus’ in light of Neurath’s philosophical projects [PDF]
, 2006 Historically, the Vienna Circle and the Dessau Bauhaus were related, with members of each group familiar with the ideas of the other. Peter Galison argues that their projects are related as well, through shared political views and methodological ...
Potochnik, Angela, Yap, Audrey
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Turning ideologies inside out: Developing young readers’ empathy for critical voices in narrative fiction [PDF]
, 2014 This article is located at the crossroads between two distinctive human traits, empathy and rational thought, with narrative emerging as a particularly powerful means to enable young readers to bring them together.
Campos, Ângela +1 more
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