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The analysis deals with dystopian science fiction artifacts of different media from the year 2000 onwards that project a posthuman intervention into contemporary socio-political discourse based in liquid modernity in the cultural formation of biopunk.
- Lars Schmeink
Dec 1, 2015 · Science fiction can be defined as a literary and narrative approach to the future, involving plots, action sequences, specific settings, dramatic resolutions, and varied and unique characters, human and otherwise.
Dec 8, 2015 · By citing some prominent authors of biofiction, it provides a preliminary framework for and definition of biofiction as an introduction to this cluster, which consists of process pieces and scholarly essays about biofiction.
- Michael Lackey
- 2016
The article aims to demonstrate that meaning in fiction can be incorporated in an explanatory network that includes the whole scope of human behavior. In both reality and fiction, meaning consists of experiences in individual minds: sensations, emotions, perceptions, and thoughts.
- Joseph Carroll
Feb 15, 2016 · Connecting philosophical and psychological theories on meaning to theories and findings on the real-world influence of fictional stories, the authors argue that science fiction provides meaning...
This course is designed to expose students to a broad spectrum of science fiction. We will examine representative texts from each of the modern, roughly defined as the 20th and 21st Centuries, “periods” of the genre.
This review-article assesses the first book on Theory of Mind (ToM) and literature, Lisa Zunshine’s Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and The Novel. ToM, our intuitive understandings of others, must be important for fiction.
