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The Pacific Proving Grounds and the Proliferation of Settler Environmentalism
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2020 Runit Dome is an eighteen-inch thick concrete dome covering the buried nuclear waste from twenty-three atomic tests conducted by the US military in the 1940s and ’50s in Pikinni Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Aimee Bahng
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Architecture Image Studies Scientific Journal, 2021 This text offers a writerly experiment aimed at developing a possible method of critical speculative fiction. The subject is an imaginary island modelled on the Cycladic island of Amorgos, Greece, which is depicted here as an all-encompassing design ...
Marko Jobst
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Alternative Presents and Speculative Futures: Designing fictions through the extrapolation and evasion of product lineages. [PDF]
, 2010 The core question addressed by this invited keynote and conference paper is how fictions are designed to negotiate, critique and realise the multiplicity of possible new technological futures.
Auger, James
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Speculative Fiction for the Future of Man and Civilization [PDF]
Future Human Image, 2019 The main thesis of the article is the comparison of speculative fiction with the challenges facing modern man. Introductory questions are two issues. How can fantasy become the subject of cultural reflection on the future of human civilization?
Bogdan Trocha
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Infrastructural Speculations: Tactics for Designing and Interrogating Lifeworlds [PDF]
, 2020 This paper introduces “infrastructural speculations,” an orientation toward speculative design that considers the complex and long-lived relationships of technologies with broader systems, beyond moments of immediate invention and design.
Bennett Cynthia L. +48 more
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Why speculative fiction? A few side notes on former and contemporary readings [PDF]
, 2016 Works of speculative fiction are among the most often chosen cultural texts. Article indicates several possible reasons of their popularity, such as breaking stereotypes and thinking patterns, inspirations for new solutions, tales of traditional values ...
Gemra, Anna
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Akademisk Kvarter, 2018 This article aims to discuss the role of the dominant critical tradition of design fiction, as well as defending the merits of a pragmatic and strategic view on design fiction, as potentially real solutions.
Thessa Jensen, Peter Vistisen
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Naomi Alderman’s The Power: A Speculative Feminist Dystopian Fiction Mirroring the Here and Now
Prague Journal of English Studies, 2022 Speculative fiction, containing speculative elements based on supposition and imagination, changes the dynamics of what is real or possible as we perceive them in our current world and then surmises the likely consequences.
Sen Tuhin Shuvra
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Retelling the Future: Don Juan Manuel's "Exenplo XI" and the Power of Fiction [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper I look at how “Exenplo XI” is both product and reflection of the various traditions and cultures of medieval Iberia and how Juan Manuel forges a new version of this story from these inherited traditions in order to showcase problems of ...
Michelle M. Hamilton
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Future-Day Saints: Abrahamic Astronomy, Anthropological Futures, and Speculative Religion
Religions, 2020 In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there is an intense interest in creating “speculative fiction”, including speculative fiction about outer space.
Jon Bialecki
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