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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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Capital as Artificial Intelligence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article examines science-fictional allegorizations of Soviet-style planned economies, financial markets, autonomous trading algorithms, and global capitalism writ large as nonhuman artificial intelligences, focussing primarily on American science ...
Canavan, Gerry
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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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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 Roof of One\u27s Own: Widow Walking in the Anthropocene [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
A nonfiction work that explores widow\u27s walks in a time of climate change on the coasts.
Mullen, Anna C
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Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative by Alexa Weik von Mossner [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Review of Alexa Weik von Mossner\u27s Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental ...
Tagnani, David
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Speculative practices : utilizing InfoVis to explore untapped literary collections [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Funding: Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research CouncilIn this paper we exemplify how information visualization supports speculative thinking, hypotheses testing, and preliminary interpretation processes as part of literary research.
Forlini, Stefania   +2 more
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Speculative Fiction in Native American Indian Literature: Active Resistance to Female American Indian Stereotypes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Native American authors who are actively seeking to disrupt patriarchy and colonial narratives tend not to write in the literary genre of speculative fiction, which is a literary form that often serves to subvert Indigenous identities through colonial ...
Burnham, Jennifer
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Yucky gets yummy: how speculative fiction creates society

open access: yesRevista Teknokultura, 2019
Human biology creates empathy through storytelling and emulation. Throughout history, humans have honed their capacity to understand optimum storytelling and relate to others in new ways.
PJ. Manney
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