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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 ...
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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 · 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 ...
Jun 5, 2018 · Science fiction and fantasy have been argued to be part of a mutable continuum of speculative genre fiction (Rieder, 2010).Since Darko Suvin’s (1979) landmark study Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre, it is now common in science fiction studies to use the term science fiction to refer to any speculative fiction—whether it might otherwise be ...
- Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Susan Jacups
- 2018
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- Science Fiction as Ethical Instruction
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An extraordinary amount of science fiction (SF) carries significant content of a moralistic nature consistently reflecting concerns about social becoming nested within the context of the times the works were written (Blackford, 2017). As a rule it is perilous to lump an entire genre into any single orientation, but in the case of SF and ethics ther...
An important caveat moving forward is that the “science fiction” referred throughout this piece is the genre as popularly perceived. “Literature” is also broadly drawn to include numerous film productions both cinematic and for television. This is also not science fiction as sometimes defined by literary scholars. To this point is the case of Jules...
Except for the comeuppance of Jay Gatsby in Fitzgerald’s magnum opus, it is notable that the banal ignorance that come of privilege in the person of Daisy got away scot (pardon the pun) free.A useful primer on the relationship between science and literature is Clarke, B., & Rossini, M. (Eds.). (2010). The Routledge companion to literature and science. Routledge.Pay particular attention to the bonus segment of the “Time Machine” podcast at about the 49-minute mark where he is quoted as appealing for developing a university pedagogy in “foresight”.Aldiss, B. W. (2005) “on the origin of species: Mary Shelley”. speculations on speculation: theories of science fiction. eds. James Gunn and Matthew Candelaria. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow. BBC Radio 4, (2019), In Our Time, “The time machine”, (Broadcast and Podcast) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009bmf(Retrieved, November 28, 2019) Blackford,...
Feb 1, 2024 · It is precisely this cognitive system that the elements of science fiction stimulate, whether it is a ‘word-fiction’, that is, a word that only exists in fictions like the hralz (Langlet, 2006), an unknown civilization, or a strange machine. Such fictional elements are as many perceived opportunities for acquiring new information, that is, for reducing psychological entropy: the new ...
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However, the other kind of science fiction is designed to tightly link with the present world and the problems the readers face. For example, science fiction novels like 1984 are not for mere evasion.
