Speculative Literature in Modern Society: Octavia Butler and the Tragedy of the Commons [PDF]
, 2017 What leads to peaceful prosperity and what leads to destructive collapse in any society? While it may seem daunting or overwhelming to dissect the success or collapse of a multi-faceted society, there are lenses and tools through which we are able to do ...
Miller, Katherine Elyse
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Speculating-with Other-than-Humans in Multispecies Climate Fiction: Canopy of the Hidden Alley
Australian Journal of Environmental EducationThis article explores multispecies climate fiction as a mode of inquiry that speculates-with other-than-humans. To explore cli-fi’s potential in research, I position speculative fiction in the field of research-creation, a praxis that combines artistic ...
Antje Jacobs
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Marginalization of “the Other”: Gender Discrimination in Dystopian Visions by Feminist Science Fiction Authors [PDF]
, 2012 Yet there are authors who consider the real world dystopian enough to be used as a setting for their novels. This is the case with Woman on theEdge of Time by Marge Piercy and The Female Man by Joanna Russ.
Gilarek Anna
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Reading Speculative Futures in a Post-Truth World [PDF]
, 2017 Faced with the threat of a “post-truth” world and a widening chasm of exchange between climate change deniers and environmentalists, I argue that future-orientated literary and media speculative fictions—which I term “speculative futures”—offer a means ...
Jekanowski, Rachel Webb
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“some kind of thing it aint us but yet its in us”: David Mitchell, Russell Hoban, and metafiction after the millennium [PDF]
, 2014 This article appraises the debt that David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas owes to the novels of Russell Hoban, including, but not limited to, Riddley Walker. After clearly mapping a history of Hoban’s philosophical perspectives and Mitchell’s inter-textual genre-
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A hauntology of participatory speculation [PDF]
, 2020 In this paper I conduct a hauntological analysis of participatory speculation, within the context of a study into understanding the potential for increasing recognition of LGBT+ young people’s experiences of hate crime and hate incidents.
Gatehouse, Cally
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The Glocal Cosmopolises of Chinese / American Speculative Fiction
Migrating MindsThis essay discusses selected texts by three Chinese/American speculative fiction authors, two writing their creative work in English—Ken Liu and R. F. Kuang—and one in Chinese—Hao Jingfang.
Fusco, Serena
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Porous Skins: Pandemic Posthumanism in Speculative Fiction
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2021 What does it mean to be human in a world that is both viral and vulnerable? The current pandemic has made clear that we live porous lives in a porous world of bacteria, microbes, viruses, organic bodies, and non-organic matter.
Katharina Donn
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Internal networks revisited: Telepathy meets technology [PDF]
, 2003 This conference paper is available to download from the publisher’s website at the link below.This is speculative paper that explores the paradigm-shifting concept of initiating a mind/body to computer communication or interaction, it is not intended ...
Baker, C
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Citizen Science Fiction: The Potential of Situated Speculative Prototyping for Public Engagement on Emerging Technologies [PDF]
, 2021 Jantien W. Schuijer +2 more
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