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Oct 9, 2020 · Paul Raven’s admirable call for the use of science fiction narratives as a tool for researching energy futures (Raven, 2017) relies heavily on concepts drawn from critical posthumanist Donna Haraway, whose work, sf or otherwise, was not mentioned in any of the 923 responses to the 2016 survey. This may not resonate with a public audience who ...
- Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Kristi Giselsson, David Guez
- 2020
Aug 3, 2017 · The first was the power of science fiction as a tool for scientific and social advocacy and cultural insight: Erren and Falaturi said that science fiction might be used “to smuggle scientific facts into the consciousness of a scientifically illiterate public” and Kotasek concluded that as society depends upon the influence of our models of reality, so science fiction has a role in ...
- Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Karen Diane Cheer
- 2017
Aug 3, 2017 · Abstract. This article aimed to uncover the foci, themes, and findings of research literature that utilized science fiction content or. concepts to describe and illustrate human culture. To ...
Terminology Used in This Paper We will discuss science fiction genre theory and how it con-trasts with popular definitions derived from survey responses. For clarity, we will distinguish between sources of definition to avoid potential confusion. The term Fiction of Estrangement (FoE) is applied inclusively to historic aca-
Feb 1, 2024 · The psychological origins of science fiction. Research about the emergence of science fiction mostly focuses on proximate How-questions, about the influence of technological culture on science fiction. Here, we focus on ultimate Why-questions, about the cognitive reasons underlying the appeal for science fiction.
Science fiction is also the literature of the Other, providing alternate points of view on familiar topics in order to give us a clearer perspective. (On a related note, click here to see my statement on diversity.) Science fiction is a community of thinkers and creatives. It is a collaborative effort by people from creative fields; as well as ...
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Oct 2, 2014 · Abstract. For the first two decades of its existence, most scholarly work on Science Fiction tended to take three forms: theoretical efforts at definition that established the historical compass of the genre and elicited a canon of major works, formalist studies that traced important iconic or ideational features of the field, and critical investigations that purported to show the alignment of ...
