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Entrelaçando design e ficção científica
Prometeica, 2022 O artigo discute como o chamado design especulativo pode ser vinculado à extrapolação tecnocientífica, uma importante característica do gênero da ficção científica, para cotejar e prototipar cenários potenciais e modelos imaginados, porém viáveis, de ...
Eduardo Harry Luersen
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Material returns: cultures of valuation, biofinancialisation and the autonomy of politics [PDF]
, 2014 The ascent of biofinancialisation since the 1980s brought with it a culture of valuation that spread well beyond financial markets and came to pervade everyday life, subjectivity, ecology and materiality. At the same time, and as a response to the social
Lilley, Simon, Papadopoulos, Dimitris
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Ecocriticism and Terraforming: Building Critical Spaces
Forum, 2010 Science fiction employs a distinctive language to engage speculatively yet critically with our contemporary world. Space, with its discrete planetary bodies and other cosmic objects, functions both as an emblem of science fiction and operates in a more ...
CHris Pak
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The Importance of Wild-Animal Suffering
Relations, 2015 Wild animals are vastly more numerous than animals on factory farms, in laboratories, or kept as pets. Most of these animals endure intense suffering during their lives, such as from disease, hunger, cold, injury, and chronic fear of predators. Many wild
Brian Tomasik
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Planetary Bioresources and Astroecology 1. Planetary Microcosm Bioassays of Martian and Carbonaceous Chondrite Materials: Nutrients, Electrolyte Solutions, and Algal and Plant Responses [PDF]
, 2002 The biological fertilities of planetary materials can be assessed using microcosms based on materials in martian and carbonaceous chondrite meteorites.
Mautner, Michael Noah
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Peacekeeping Conditions for an Artificial Intelligence Society
Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2019 In a human society with emergent technology, the destructive actions of some pose a danger to the survival of all of humankind, increasing the need to maintain peace by overcoming universal conflicts.
Hiroshi Yamakawa
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Out of Exception, Into Emergency
RSA Journal, 2022 Inevitably interconnected with the “Great Acceleration” of the Anthropocene, space race has played a substantial role in the reassessment of humankind’s identity as interplanetary.
Alessandra Calanchi
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Prometeica, 2022 In our everyday experience, life, environment, and nature are connected and we tend to confuse the value we assign to them. One way around this issue is to analyze our intuitions on the terraformation of other planets such as Mars.
Pierfrancesco Biasetti
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Kwartalnik Filmowy, 2020 In the ascending age of automation factories, storage facilities, and server farms, intelligent buildings are becoming less dependent on human maintenance. These new and updated architectural forms do not comply with traditional typologies.
Maciej Stasiowski
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RSA Journal, 2023 Drawing on Rosi Braidotti’s thinking on the need for “a downsizing of human arrogance” and solidarity with other (non)humans,” as well as on Rob Nixon’s and Saskia Sassen’s insights into the perverse logic of capitalism and the slow violence brought ...
Leonor María Martínez Serrano
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