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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
doaj   +1 more source

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
core   +2 more sources

African speculative fiction as Indigenous remembering: Contrasting stories by Jonathan Dotse and Masima Musodza

open access: yesTydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2022
How to understand what uniquely African contribution speculative fiction created by African authors makes is a vexed question. Drawing on concepts of the geopolitics of knowledge and locus of enunciation, from the South American tradition of decolonial ...
Maria Prozesky
semanticscholar   +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
doaj   +1 more source

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
core   +2 more sources

Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction

open access: yes, 2021
Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through biotechnology has far-reaching implications for how we think of personhood, agency, and value.
S. Vint
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
core   +1 more source

Unlocking the Power of Quercetin‐Encapsulated Mesoporous Bioactive Glass Nanoparticles: A Multifunctional Approach to Bone Regeneration

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Mesoporous bioactive glass nanoparticles (MBGNs) are investigated for bone regeneration given their remarkable structural and functional properties. MBGNs are functionalized with Mn and Cu and incorporated with quercetin, a natural flavonoid exhibiting antioxidant, anti‐inflammatory, and antimicrobial properties.
Giovanni Lo Bello   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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