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Carl Gelderloos deposited Alien Evolution and Dialectical Materialism in Eastern European Science Fiction in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days agoThis essay reads Ivan Efremov’s “Andromeda Nebula” (1957), Stanisław Lem’s “Solaris” (1961), and Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller’s “Andymon” (1982) in order to explore the relationship between biological evolution and dialectical materialism, as it was negotiated through the trope of the alien in the context of the cultural politics of Eastern E…[Read more]
Joe Hoffman deposited Boundaries of the Future in Two William Gibson Novels in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoActuality is a border between the world that is and the future worlds that could be. Science- fiction stories look across the border, into the frontiers of ‘the future’. William Gibson did his part in the 1980s to invent cyberpunk fiction as a slick, stylish view into a bleak dystopian future, but by the turn of the century, much of what he’d…[Read more]
Javier Arturo Velásquez Ruiz deposited Asimov lleva el universo holmesiano hacia la órbita de la ciencia ficción in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week agoThe link between asimovian universe and Sherlock Holmes
Ben Carver replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 3 months, 4 weeks agoI’ve just attended a conference in Aarhus, where Elly McCausland presented on unreliable maps in Children’s adventure fiction, from her current monograph project. Another genre where maps proliferate is invasion fiction. Childers’ Riddle of the Sands is impossible to read without referring to the 2 (3?) accompanying maps.
Kirsten Ashley Bussière replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 3 months, 4 weeks agoMaps and fantasy definitely are more common! If you know any theoretical articles associated with that it would likely be helpful as well. I’m working on a project where I digitally map post-apocalyptic spaces and I am trying to situate my work in the context of literary maps, more specifically utopias and science fiction, but discussions of maps…[Read more]
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Kirsten Ashley Bussière replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 3 months, 4 weeks agoTally and Harvey do have some good comments on mapmaking in relation to the geopolitical implications of maps in general. There is also chapter 11: “Utopia of the Map” in Utopics: Spatial Play by Louis Marin that discusses the map as a model of its object but also a double of the Empire as a global institution.
You might also be interested in…[Read more]
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Joe Hoffman replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 3 months, 4 weeks agoThis may sound weird, but the only SF work I can think of in which a map drives the action is Starman Jones. Maps are a much bigger deal in fantasy.
Dana Gavin replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 3 months, 4 weeks agoOne of the notes I made as I was thinking about your original query is the ethics of map-making (of imaginary worlds as well as “real” ones). It sounds like both Tally and Harvey might be helpful with that? I’m thinking about my own biases as I try to make up my own maps, assumptions, that sort of thing. Have you run into any of those issues in…[Read more]
James Gifford started the topic CFP: Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory (Due: 3 Jul 2018) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 4 months agoHobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory”
Special feature in The New Americanist
In association with the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw“A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism.” The Communist Manifesto (1850)
A frightful hobgoblin stalks through genre ficti…[Read more]
Sophie A. Lewis deposited Enjoy It While It Lasts: From Sterility Apocalypses to Non-Nihilistic Non-Reproduction in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 4 months agoIn this essay, I discuss salient themes of The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). I hold that The Child To Come’s main thrust is this: ‘The issue is not that there is no future but rather that there is no sure way of orienting toward that future, either to save it or to survive it’. The chall…[Read more]
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Kirsten Ashley Bussière replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 4 months agoThank you for your helpful response! I actually have not looked at the article or book that you mentioned. My previous research took me to Robert J. Tally’s comments on Cognitive Mapping, in <i>Utopia in the Age of Globalization </i>David Harvey’s Spaces of Hope both of which are less about maps per-se but rather a discussion of the geop…[Read more]
Dana Gavin replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 4 months agoI am so interested in this topic — thank you for introducing it!
You are probably well familiar with this online article, but I found it really helpful to get myself situated: https://bookriot.com/2015/09/02/making-maps-books-two-cartographers-tell-us-done/
I find the idea of the back-and-forth between the map-makers and the authors really…[Read more]
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Kirsten Ashley Bussière started the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week agoI am currently working on a project that involves digitally mapping contemporary post-apocalyptic spaces from Speculative Fiction. I was wondering if anyone knows of any useful articles or books on the tradition of maps in Speculative and Science Fictions. Any recommendations welcome! Thank you!
I would also love to discuss this further if anyone…[Read more]
Tobias Steiner deposited Subversion of Nostalgia as a Strategy of Engagement in Alternate History TV: 11.22.63 and The Man in the High Castle in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoBeginning with television’s popularization and mass availability in the 1950s, TV has extensively been employed to transport and mediate history. From the early televisual experiments of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek to more recent examples such as Quantum Leap, The X-Files and Continuum, Science Fiction television and its subgenre of A…[Read more]
David E. Roy deposited Can Whitehead’s Philosophy Provide an Adequate Theoretical Foundation for Today’s Neuroscience? in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week agoThis article shows the high degree of correlation between the ways in which the right and the left hemispheres process and organize information and Whitehead’s understanding of the two pure and direct modes of perception, causal efficacy and presentational immediacy. The neuroscience is drawn from the recent work of Iain McGilchrist and Robert…[Read more]
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David E. Roy, Ph.D. posted an update in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoWhen I returned to reading science fiction (after a 30+ year gap, age 20 to 50-something), one of the authors that I fell in love with was Ursula K. Le Guin. More recently, I came across Vandana Singh who writes in imaginative and unpredictable ways. She shared in her eulogy for Ursula that the old master had sought her out and provided mentoring.…[Read more]
Kathryn Laity started the topic Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoAre other folks writing about this book and its adaptation? I have a new essay out on its use of tarot (at Mythlore), but I’ve also been writing about its medievalism. Just curious: there’s been a fantastic Wiki on the book but it’s being shut down this summer.
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Javier Arturo Velásquez Ruiz deposited La literatura gótica no es el antagonista en la historia de los valores ilustrados in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoThe gothic literature is not necessarily the antagonist in the history of the Enlightenment values.
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Ben Carver posted an update in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoAn essay on evolutionary theory and speculative fiction in nineteenth-century culture, now published by the excellent folk at urbanomic.
James Smith deposited Disturbing the Ant-Hill: Misanthropy and Cosmic Indifference in Clark Ashton Smith’s Medieval Averoigne in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks agoClark Ashton Smith—unlike the more famous H.P. Lovecraft—engaged with the medieval as a setting for his fiction. Lovecraft admired classical Roman civilization and the eighteenth century, but had little time for medieval themes. As Brantley Bryant has related, Lovecraft wrote contemptuously that the Middle Ages was a period that “snivel[ed] along…[Read more]
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