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Re-Entangling Design and Science Fiction: The Case of Daleko

open access: yesInternational Journal of Film and Media Arts, 2021
The present article discusses how speculative design relates to technoscientific extrapolation, an important science fiction feature, to plan for potential scenarios and prototype viable models of futurity.
Eduardo Harry Luersen
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Speculation and fiction: introduction [PDF]

open access: yesSanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2015
As students of literature, one of the most frequent questions we encounter is: how does one write anything? What are the factors responsible for writing fiction? Does fiction have its autonomous qualities? Put in a slightly different way: what is thought or how is thought put into fiction?
Bhattacharya, Sourit   +1 more
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Bringing Infrastructural Criticism to Speculative Fiction: China Miéville’s “Covehithe”

open access: yesC21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2019
This article unites infrastructural criticism, speculative fiction, and ecocriticism. Bruce Robbins, Patricia Yeager, and other scholars have been building the field of infrastructural criticism over the past ten years, but this work has largely focused ...
Andy Hageman
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Bodies becoming pain: unusual strategies of dissent in some transnational latin-american women writers

open access: yesBrumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2020
This paper interprets the way in which transnational writers use monstrosity and the uncanny to investigate the concept of the HomeSpace with dissent.  An important group of unusual creatures in the contemporary fiction of Latin American women authors ...
María Jesús Llarena Ascanio
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Review of "Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction" by André M. Carrington (University of Minnesota Press)

open access: yesLateral, 2017
André Carrington’s "Speculative Blackness" is a novel approach to the consumption of race representation in media. Carrington explores how Blackness is manufactured, consumed, and transformed through the speculative fiction genre across multiple 20th and
Daniella Mascarenhas
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On the Apocalypse that No One Noticed

open access: yesELOPE, 2018
“[W]hat if they gave an apocalypse and nobody noticed?” was the question that Brooks Landon (1991, 239) proposed as the central thematic concern of the 1980s cyberpunk – a movement which today represents a landmark in the development of the science ...
Mojca Krevel
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Mycelium Matter(s) – Fictionalizing Human–Mushroom Relations

open access: yesJednak Książki, 2022
Through this paper, the author tries to explore a simple yet complex question: how do we decentralize the human presence in conversations about climate-change?
Vishwaveda Joshi
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Speculative-evolution fiction, quantum-actualist fiction: letture di Laura Pugno

open access: yesNarrativa, 2021
Beaucoup a été écrit et dit récemment en Italie et ailleurs sur l’écologie, sur le “tournant” théorique animal et végétal. Les dystopies de Laura Pugno (Sirene, Antartide), ses textes fantastiques-onyriques comme La ragazza selvaggia, ainsi que ses ...
Hanna Serkowska, Aleksandra Pławska
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A new flow chip in combination with multiphoton microscopy as a protocol for longitudinal 3D imaging of tissue calcification under shear stress

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Miniaturized flow chip platform enabling continuous perfusion and longitudinal multiphoton 3D imaging of vascular smooth muscle cell constructs under physiological flow. Brightfield imaging guides region selection, while CellTracker Green and mRuby‐labeled fetuin‐A visualize cells and mineral deposition, respectively. Magnesium supplementation markedly
Vytautas Kučikas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Otherworldliness and Gender Inequalities: Postmodern Reading of Nawal El Saadawi’s Love in the Kingdom of Oil

open access: yesمجلة النور للدراسات الانسانية
This study interrogates otherworldliness and speculative figures in the representation of immediate social realities in Saadawi’s Love in the Kingdom of Oil. While a number of studies exist on the novel, they neglect Saadawi’s use of otherworldliness and
Dr. Andrew Nyongesa
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