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Beyond cyberpunk : new critical perspectives / / edited by Graham J. Murphy and Sherryl Vint
| Beyond cyberpunk : new critical perspectives / / edited by Graham J. Murphy and Sherryl Vint |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
MurphyGraham J. <1970->
VintSherryl <1969-> |
| Collana | Routledge studies in contemporary literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Science fiction - History and criticism
Cyberpunk culture Technology in literature Postmodernism (Literature) Literature and technology |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-136-97318-4
1-282-62965-4 9786612629655 0-203-85196-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Sea Change(s) of Cyberpunk; Part I: Situating Cyberpunk; 1 Towards a Poetics of Cyberpunk; 2 "A Rare State of Ferment" SF Controversies from the New Wave to Cyberpunk; 3 Recognizing Patterns: Gibson's Hermeneutics from the Bridge Trilogy to Pattern Recognition; 4 Journeys Beyond Being: The Cyberpunk-Flavored Novels of Jeff Noon; Part II: The Political Economy of Cyberpunk; 5 Global Economy, Local Texts: Utopian/Dystopian Tension in William Gibson's Cyberpunk Trilogy
6 "The Mainstream Finds its Own Uses for Things": Cyberpunk and Commodification7 Why Neo Flies, and Why He Shouldn't: The Critique of Cyberpunk in Gwyneth Jones's Escape Plans and M. John Harrison's Signs of Life; 8 Posthuman Melancholy: Digital Gaming and Cyberpunk; Part III: The Politics of Embodiment in Cyberpunk; 9 Feminist Cyberpunk; 10 Woken Carbon: The Return of the Human in Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs Trilogy; 11 Retrofitting Frankenstein; 12 Angel(LINK) of Harlem: Techno-Spirituality in the Cyberpunk Tradition; Afterword: The World Gibson Made; Contributors; Bibliography Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458663203321 |
| New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Beyond cyberpunk : new critical perspectives / / edited by Graham J. Murphy and Sherryl Vint
| Beyond cyberpunk : new critical perspectives / / edited by Graham J. Murphy and Sherryl Vint |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
MurphyGraham J. <1970->
VintSherryl <1969-> |
| Collana | Routledge studies in contemporary literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Science fiction - History and criticism
Cyberpunk culture Technology in literature Postmodernism (Literature) Literature and technology |
| ISBN |
1-136-97317-6
1-136-97318-4 1-282-62965-4 9786612629655 0-203-85196-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Sea Change(s) of Cyberpunk; Part I: Situating Cyberpunk; 1 Towards a Poetics of Cyberpunk; 2 "A Rare State of Ferment" SF Controversies from the New Wave to Cyberpunk; 3 Recognizing Patterns: Gibson's Hermeneutics from the Bridge Trilogy to Pattern Recognition; 4 Journeys Beyond Being: The Cyberpunk-Flavored Novels of Jeff Noon; Part II: The Political Economy of Cyberpunk; 5 Global Economy, Local Texts: Utopian/Dystopian Tension in William Gibson's Cyberpunk Trilogy
6 "The Mainstream Finds its Own Uses for Things": Cyberpunk and Commodification7 Why Neo Flies, and Why He Shouldn't: The Critique of Cyberpunk in Gwyneth Jones's Escape Plans and M. John Harrison's Signs of Life; 8 Posthuman Melancholy: Digital Gaming and Cyberpunk; Part III: The Politics of Embodiment in Cyberpunk; 9 Feminist Cyberpunk; 10 Woken Carbon: The Return of the Human in Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs Trilogy; 11 Retrofitting Frankenstein; 12 Angel(LINK) of Harlem: Techno-Spirituality in the Cyberpunk Tradition; Afterword: The World Gibson Made; Contributors; Bibliography Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791124503321 |
| New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Cambridge companion to science fiction / / edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn [[electronic resource]]
| The Cambridge companion to science fiction / / edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn [[electronic resource]] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxvii, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
| Collana | Cambridge companions to literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Ciència-ficció
Història de la literatura Science fiction - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Llibres electrònics |
| ISBN |
1-107-48580-0
0-511-07829-3 1-280-16288-0 0-511-07672-X 0-511-20466-3 0-511-99880-5 0-511-12080-X 0-511-32637-8 0-511-07518-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ; Introduction : Reading science fiction / Farah Mendlesohn -- Science fiction before the genre / Brian Stableford -- Magazine era : 1926-1960 / Brian Attebery -- New Wave and backwash : 1960-1980 / Damien Broderick -- Science fiction from 1980 to the present / John Clute -- Film and television / Mark Bould -- Science fiction and its editors / Gary K. Wolfe-- Marxist theory and science fiction / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. -- Feminist theory and science fiction / Veronica Hollinger -- Postmodernism and science fiction / Andrew M. Butler -- Science fiction and queer theory / Wendy Pearson -- Icons of science fiction / Gwyneth Jones -- Science fiction and the life sciences / Joan Slonczewski and Michael Levy -- Hard science fiction / Kathryn Cramer -- Space opera / Gary Westfahl -- Alternate history / Andy Duncan -- Utopias and anti-utopias / Edward James -- Politics and science fiction / Ken Macleod -- Gender in science fiction / Helen Merrick -- Race and ethnicity in science fiction / Elisabeth Anne Leonard -- Religion and science fiction / Farah Mendlesohn. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996226148103316 |
| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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A companion to science fiction [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David Seed
| A companion to science fiction [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David Seed |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | xvi, 612 p |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SeedDavid |
| Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
| Soggetto topico | Science fiction - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-78268-492-1
1-280-19874-5 9786610198740 1-4051-6502-2 0-470-99705-2 1-4051-4458-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Introduction : Approaching science fiction -- pt. I. Surveying the field. Hard reading : the hard reading : the challenges of science fiction / Tom Shippey -- The origins of science fiction / George Slusser -- Science fiction/criticism / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. -- Science-fiction magazines : the crucibles of change / MIke Ashley -- pt. II. Topics and debates. Utopia / Phillip E. Wegner -- Science, fiction and religion / Stephen R.L. Clark -- "Monsters of the imagination" : Gothic,science, fiction / Fred Botting -- Science fiction and ecology / Brian Stableford -- Feminist fabulation / Marleen S. Barr -- Time and identity in feminist science fiction / Jenny Wolmark -- Science fiction and the Cold War / M. Keith Booker -- pt. III. Genres and movements. Hard science fiction / Gary Westfahl -- The new wave / Rob Latham -- Cyberpunk / Mark Bould -- Science fiction and postmodernism / Veronica Hollinger -- The renewal of "hard" science fiction / Donald M. Hassler -- pt. IV. Science fiction film. American science fiction film : an overview / Vivian Sobchack -- Figurations of the cyborg in contemporary science fiction novels and fiction / Christine Cornea -- British television science fiction / Peter Wright -- pt. V. The international scene. Canadian science fiction / Douglas Barbour -- Japanese and Asian science fiction / Takayuki Tatsumi -- Australian science fiction / Van Ikin and Sean McMullen --
pt. VI. Key writers. The grandeur of H.G. Wells / Robert Crossley -- Isaac Asimov / John Clute -- John Wyndham : the facts of life sextet / David Ketterer -- Philip Dick / Christopher Palmer -- Samuel Delaney : a biographical and critical overview / Carl Freedman -- Ursula K. Le Guin / Warren G. Rochelle -- Gwyneth Jones anxietiesanxities of science fiction / Andy Sawyer -- Arthur C. Clarke / Edward James -- Greg Egan / Russell Blackford -- pt. VII. Readings. Mary Shelley : Frankenstein : or, the modern Prometheus / Susan E. Lederer and Richard M. Ratzan -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman : Herland / Jill Rudd -- Aldous Huxley : Brave new world / David Seed -- Ray Bradbury : Fahrenheit 451 / Brian Baker -- Joanna Russ : The female man / Jeanne Cortiel -- J.G. Ballard : Crash / Roger Luckhurst -- Margaret Atwood : The handmaid's tale / Faye Hammill -- William Gibson : Neuromancer / Andrew M. Butler -- Kim Stanley Robinson : Mars trilogy / Carol Franko -- Iain M. Banks : Excession / Farah Mendlesohn. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996214585403316 |
| Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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A companion to science fiction / / edited by David Seed
| A companion to science fiction / / edited by David Seed |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | xvi, 612 p |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SeedDavid |
| Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
| Soggetto topico | Science fiction - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
9786610198740
9781782684923 1782684921 9781280198748 1280198745 9781405165020 1405165022 9780470997055 0470997052 9781405144582 1405144580 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Introduction : Approaching science fiction -- pt. I. Surveying the field. Hard reading : the hard reading : the challenges of science fiction / Tom Shippey -- The origins of science fiction / George Slusser -- Science fiction/criticism / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. -- Science-fiction magazines : the crucibles of change / MIke Ashley -- pt. II. Topics and debates. Utopia / Phillip E. Wegner -- Science, fiction and religion / Stephen R.L. Clark -- "Monsters of the imagination" : Gothic,science, fiction / Fred Botting -- Science fiction and ecology / Brian Stableford -- Feminist fabulation / Marleen S. Barr -- Time and identity in feminist science fiction / Jenny Wolmark -- Science fiction and the Cold War / M. Keith Booker -- pt. III. Genres and movements. Hard science fiction / Gary Westfahl -- The new wave / Rob Latham -- Cyberpunk / Mark Bould -- Science fiction and postmodernism / Veronica Hollinger -- The renewal of "hard" science fiction / Donald M. Hassler -- pt. IV. Science fiction film. American science fiction film : an overview / Vivian Sobchack -- Figurations of the cyborg in contemporary science fiction novels and fiction / Christine Cornea -- British television science fiction / Peter Wright -- pt. V. The international scene. Canadian science fiction / Douglas Barbour -- Japanese and Asian science fiction / Takayuki Tatsumi -- Australian science fiction / Van Ikin and Sean McMullen --
pt. VI. Key writers. The grandeur of H.G. Wells / Robert Crossley -- Isaac Asimov / John Clute -- John Wyndham : the facts of life sextet / David Ketterer -- Philip Dick / Christopher Palmer -- Samuel Delaney : a biographical and critical overview / Carl Freedman -- Ursula K. Le Guin / Warren G. Rochelle -- Gwyneth Jones anxietiesanxities of science fiction / Andy Sawyer -- Arthur C. Clarke / Edward James -- Greg Egan / Russell Blackford -- pt. VII. Readings. Mary Shelley : Frankenstein : or, the modern Prometheus / Susan E. Lederer and Richard M. Ratzan -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman : Herland / Jill Rudd -- Aldous Huxley : Brave new world / David Seed -- Ray Bradbury : Fahrenheit 451 / Brian Baker -- Joanna Russ : The female man / Jeanne Cortiel -- J.G. Ballard : Crash / Roger Luckhurst -- Margaret Atwood : The handmaid's tale / Faye Hammill -- William Gibson : Neuromancer / Andrew M. Butler -- Kim Stanley Robinson : Mars trilogy / Carol Franko -- Iain M. Banks : Excession / Farah Mendlesohn. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910143301803321 |
| Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Critical theory and science fiction [[electronic resource]] / Carl Freedman
| Critical theory and science fiction [[electronic resource]] / Carl Freedman |
| Autore | Freedman Carl Howard |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
| Soggetto topico | Science fiction - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8195-7454-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Critical Theory and Science Fiction; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Definitions; Critical Theory; Science Fiction; 2. Articulations; Genre, Theory, and Phases of Canon-Formation; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Style; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and the Historical Novel; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Utopia; Science Fiction and the Canon; 3. Excursuses; Solaris: Stanisław Lem and the Structure of Cognition; The Dispossessed: Ursula Le Guin and the Ambiguities of Utopia
The Two of Them: Joanna Russ and the Violence of GenderStars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand: Samuel Delany and the Dialectics of Difference; The Man in the High Castle: Philip K. Dick and the Construction of Realities; Coda: Critical Theory, Science Fiction, and the Postmodern; Index; ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Freedman Carl Howard
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| Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2000 | ||
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Critical theory and science fiction [[electronic resource]] / Carl Freedman
| Critical theory and science fiction [[electronic resource]] / Carl Freedman |
| Autore | Freedman Carl Howard |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
| Soggetto topico | Science fiction - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
| ISBN | 0-8195-7454-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Critical Theory and Science Fiction; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Definitions; Critical Theory; Science Fiction; 2. Articulations; Genre, Theory, and Phases of Canon-Formation; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Style; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and the Historical Novel; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Utopia; Science Fiction and the Canon; 3. Excursuses; Solaris: Stanisław Lem and the Structure of Cognition; The Dispossessed: Ursula Le Guin and the Ambiguities of Utopia
The Two of Them: Joanna Russ and the Violence of GenderStars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand: Samuel Delany and the Dialectics of Difference; The Man in the High Castle: Philip K. Dick and the Construction of Realities; Coda: Critical Theory, Science Fiction, and the Postmodern; Index; ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Freedman Carl Howard
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| Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2000 | ||
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Critical theory and science fiction / / Carl Freedman
| Critical theory and science fiction / / Carl Freedman |
| Autore | Freedman Carl Howard |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
| Soggetto topico | Science fiction - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
| ISBN |
9780819574541
0819574546 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Critical Theory and Science Fiction; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Definitions; Critical Theory; Science Fiction; 2. Articulations; Genre, Theory, and Phases of Canon-Formation; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Style; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and the Historical Novel; The Critical Dynamic: Science Fiction and Utopia; Science Fiction and the Canon; 3. Excursuses; Solaris: Stanisław Lem and the Structure of Cognition; The Dispossessed: Ursula Le Guin and the Ambiguities of Utopia
The Two of Them: Joanna Russ and the Violence of GenderStars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand: Samuel Delany and the Dialectics of Difference; The Man in the High Castle: Philip K. Dick and the Construction of Realities; Coda: Critical Theory, Science Fiction, and the Postmodern; Index; ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Freedman Carl Howard
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| Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2000 | ||
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Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction : Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism
| Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction : Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism |
| Autore | Shapiro Alan N |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (375 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809.3/8762 |
| Collana | Digitale Gesellschaft Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Popular culture
Science fiction - Social aspects SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies |
| ISBN | 9783839472422 |
| Classificazione | AP 13550 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Three Central Hypotheses -- The Logical Progression of the Three Concepts or Hypotheses -- Part One - Hyper‐Modernism: Digital Media Technologies and Science Fiction -- Part One to Part Two: From Hyper‐Modernism to Hyperreality -- Part Two - Hyperreality: Reevaluation of Jean Baudrillard's Media Theory and the Simulacrum -- Part Two to Part Three: From Hyperreality to Post‐Humanism and Creative Coding -- Part Three - Posthumanism: N. Katherine Hayles' History of Cybernetics, Creative Coding, and the Future of Informatics -- Originally Published Versions -- Methodology -- Thirty Minute Statement at my Ph.D. Oral Defense Alan N. Shapiro, April 12, 2024 -- Part One - Hyper‐Modernism: Digital Media Technologies and Science Fiction -- Overview of Part One -- Short Definitions of Modernity, Postmodernism, and Hyper‐Modernism -- The Three Essays of Part One -- Mobility and Science Fiction -- Introduction -- We Do Not Live in a Society Where Mobility is Encouraged -- The Dream of the Tomorrow‐Car -- Henri Matisse Paints "the Vision Machine" -- The New Vision Machine -- Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Menace of Verticality -- The "Spinner" Flying Cars of Blade Runner: Simulation and Surveillance -- Blade Runner: We Are All Replicants -- Blade Runner 2049: Android Liberation Between Old and New Informatic Power -- Minority Report: The Utopia/Dystopia of Surveillance Technologies -- The Fifth Element: When Manhattan has no More Ways to Expand -- Back to the Future: A Speed So Fast that the Laws of Spacetime Get Shattered -- Total Recall: You're in a Johnny Cab -- Robots Versus Androids -- Self‐Owning Cars -- Enhance the Physical World -- The Simulacra, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and Dr. Bloodmoney -- The "Science Fiction World" of Philip K. Dick's Ubik.
Who Is Jory Miller and What is Ubik? -- Fredric Jameson on Postmodernism -- Sonja Yeh on the Postmodern Media Theorists -- Donna J. Haraway's "A Manifesto for Cyborgs" -- Science Fiction Heterotopia: The Economy of the Future -- Introduction: Foucault's Heterotopia -- The Technologizing of Memory -- Black Mirror: "The Entire History of You" - Scenes from a Marriage -- Similar Technologies in the Real World Today -- Brain‐Computer Interface -- Designing the Brain‐Computer Interface -- Hyper‐Modernist Literature -- The Economy of the Future -- Post‐Capitalism and Technological Anarchism -- Star Trek Replicators and Star Trek Economics -- Ecologically Aware or Sustainable 3D Printers -- Additive Manufacturing and Living Organisms -- Andre Gorz: Human Liberation Beyond Work -- Murray Bookchin, Post‐Scarcity Anarchism -- Yanis Varoufakis' Vision of Post‐Capitalism -- Conclusion -- Geert Lovink on Post‐Capitalism -- Blockchain Decentralized Idealism -- Smart Contracts -- Between Law and Code -- Decentralized Autonomous Organization -- Between Corporate Intellectual Property Rights and the Rights of Users -- Fiction and Power in Postmodernism -- Cornelius Castoriadis, The Imaginary Institution of Society -- Donna J. Haraway on the Informatics of Domination -- Michel Foucault's Analytics of Power -- Jean Baudrillard, Forget Foucault -- Gilles Deleuze, "Postscript on the Societies of Control" -- Fiction, Power, and Codes in Hyper‐Modernism -- John Armitage on Hyper‐Modernism -- Albert Borgmann on Hyper‐Modernism -- Gilles Lipovetsky on Hyper‐Modernism -- What is Hyper‐Modernism? -- Introduction -- Access to History -- The Carnivalesque -- Modernity, Postmodernism, Hyper‐Modernism -- Gustave Flaubert: To Write a Novel About Nothing -- Hyper‐Modernist Creativity -- Body, Self, and Code in Hyper‐Modernism -- Sincerity and Authenticity. Darko Suvin on Science Fiction Studies -- Carl Freedman on Science Fiction Studies -- Istvan Ciscsery‐Ronay, Jr. on Science Fiction Studies -- Part Two - Hyperreality: Reevaluation of Jean Baudrillard's Media Theory and the Simulacrum -- Overview of Part Two -- Defining the Simulacrum and Hyperreality -- Thinking Hyperreality: From Rhetoric to Code -- Baudrillard's Importance for the Future -- Baudrillard and the Situationists -- Baudrillard and Trump -- Baudrillard's Importance for the Future -- The Controversy Around Baudrillard -- Yes - Everything is Simulation! -- Early Baudrillard: The Consumer Society and For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign -- Symbolic Exchange and the Gift Economy -- The First Order of Simulacra: The Student of Prague -- The Second Order of Simulacra: The First Industrial Revolution -- The Third Order of Simulacra: Simulation and Hyperreality -- First‐Wave Digitalization as Interactive Performance -- The Fourth Order of Simulacra: Value Radiates in All Directions -- From Descartes to Baudrillard: The "Evil Demon" of Images -- Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God" -- The Trapdoor Escape Hatch Way Out of Hyperreality -- High Life: The Black Hole of Humanity's Extinction and New Hope -- Poetic Resolution in Baudrillard's Thought -- Daniel Boorstin, The Image: Hyperreality Overtakes America -- Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality -- Roland Barthes, Mythologies -- Taking the Side of Objects -- Plato and the Simulacrum -- Plato as Software Designer -- Brian Gogan on Plato, Baudrillard, and Rhetoric -- Deleuze on "Plato and the Simulacrum" -- Upgrading Hyperreality and the Simulacrum for Digitalization -- Personalized Advertising -- Transdisciplinarity is Good for (Post‑)Humanity -- Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and the Metaverse -- Baudrillard and the Situationists -- Introduction. "Taking the Side of Objects" and the Situationists -- Baudrillard's Paradigm Shift -- Is Baudrillard Fair to the Situationists? -- "Baudrillard and the Situationists" Commentators Douglas Kellner and Sadie Plant, and the Tension between Critical Theory and Fatal Theory -- Exhibit A (Baudrillard self‐simplifies): -- Exhibit B (Baudrillard's critique of the Situationists is reductionist): -- Exhibit C (Sadie Plant's critique of Baudrillard is reductionist): -- Situationist Practices -- Wandering or the Drift - Le Dérive -- Psycho‐Geography -- The Diverting of Technologies - Le détournement -- The Making or Creating or Construction of Situations -- The Radical Illusion Beyond Art -- Neo‐Situationism in the Field of Advanced Digital Technologies -- Urban and Street Art Activism -- Augmented Reality versus Wall Street -- Conclusion -- McKenzie Wark on the Situationists -- Play Don't Work -- Existential Encounter with the Object -- From the Subject to the Object in Jean‐Paul Sartre's Nausea -- The Myth of Sisyphus: Albert Camus on the Side of Objects -- Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity -- Jean Baudrillard and the Donald: Is Trump a Fascist or is He the Parody of Fascism? -- Epistemology of True and False -- Society of the Spectacle and Hyperreality -- Donald Trump the Empty Signifier -- From Simulation to the Grotesque and the Self‐Parody -- Springtime for Hitler -- Serge Latouche Remembers Baudrillard -- Biosphere 2: The Artificial Paradise of Nature -- Reality TV and Baudrillard's Telemorphosis -- The Truman Show: "The Last Thing That I Would Ever Do is Lie to You" -- My Two Key Differences from Baudrillard -- Part Three - Posthumanism: N. Katherine Hayles' History of Cybernetics, Creative Coding, and the Future of Informatics -- Overview of Part Three -- The Science Fiction of Star Trek. Star Trek's Spock, Data, and Seven of Nine and the Three Orders of Cybernetics -- What is Posthumanism? -- The Concept of Nature in Whitehead and Merleau‐Ponty -- Rosi Braidotti's Celebratory Posthuman Philosophy -- A Fully Posthuman Situation -- Wendy Chun on Software Code -- Software Code as Expanded Narration -- The Software of the Future -- Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance -- Technoscience and Storytelling -- From Liberal Humanism to Posthumanism -- Cyborg Spock and NASA's Cyborg -- First Order Cybernetics -- How Information Lost Its Body -- Claus Pias on First‐Order Cybernetics -- Gene Roddenberry Designs His First Alien -- "The Devil in the Dark": Empathy for Radical Otherness -- Second Order Cybernetics -- Bernhard Dotzler on Second‐Order Cybernetics -- The Android Data of Star Trek: The Next Generation -- "The Offspring": Data's Daughter Lal -- Third Order Cybernetics -- "Becoming‐Borg" Seven of Nine -- Star Trek: Picard, "Remembrance" -- "Embodied Informatics" is a Science Fiction Idea -- Hayles on Writing and Software Code -- Hyper‐Modernist Science -- I, Robot and the Moral Dilemmas of the Three Laws of Robotics -- The Zeroth Law of Robotics and the Robot Unconscious -- Hayles on the Cognitive Nonconscious -- Marie‐Luise Angerer Critiques Hayles -- Judith Butler and Gender Theory -- Ex Machina and the Turing Test -- Ex Machina: The Performance of Female and Human -- Monique Wittig, The Straight Mind -- Software Code as Expanded Narration -- Software Code as Expressive Media -- Friedrich Kittler: The Numeric Kernel is Decisive -- Kittler's Media Archaeology -- Wolfgang Hagen on Programming Languages -- Ten Paradigms of Informatics and Programming -- The First Hyper‐Modern Computers -- Enter Software Studies -- Enter Creative Coding -- Alan Turing: The Imitation Game and Befriending the Evil Demon. Alan Turing: The Scientific and Cultural Levels of Computing. |
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Shapiro Alan N
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| Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2024 | ||
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Exploring science through science fiction / / Barry B. Luokkala
| Exploring science through science fiction / / Barry B. Luokkala |
| Autore | Luokkala Barry B |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Springer, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 241 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Disciplina |
500
809.3/8762 |
| Collana | Science and Fiction |
| Soggetto topico |
Science in motion pictures
Science fiction films Literature and science Science in mass media |
| ISBN | 1-4614-7891-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface -- 1 Introduction: Discerning the Real, the Possible and the Impossible -- 2 What is the Nature of Space and Time? (the physics of space travel and time travel) -- 3 What is the Universe Made of? (matter, energy and interactions) -- 4 Can a Machine Become Self-Aware? (the sciences of computing and cognition) -- 5 Are We Alone in the Universe? (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence) -- 6 What does it Mean to be Human? (biological sciences, biotechnology and other considerations) -- 7 How do We Solve Our Problems? (science, technology and society) -- 8 What Lies Ahead? (the future of our technological society) -- Appendix A: Catalog of Movies Cited -- Appendix B: Catalog of Television Series Episodes Cited -- Appendix C: Catalog of YouTube Videos Cited -- Appendix D: Solutions to Estimation Problems. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300390003321 |
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Luokkala Barry B
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| New York : , : Springer, , [2014] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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