Lost in Space: Geographies of Science FictionRob Kitchin, James Kneale A&C Black, 23.10.2005 - 224 Seiten Science fiction - one of the most popular literary, cinematic and televisual genres - has received increasing academic attention in recent years. For many theorists science fiction opens up a space in which the here-and-now can be made strange or remade; where virtual reality and cyborg are no longer gimmicks or predictions, but new spaces and subjects. Lost in space brings together an international collection of authors to explore the diverse geographies of spaceexploring imagination, nature, scale, geopolitics, modernity, time, identity, the body, power relations and the representation of space. The essays explore the writings of a broad selection of writers, including J.G.Ballard, Frank Herbert, Marge Piercy, Kim Stanley Robinson, Mary Shelley and Neal Stephenson, and films from Bladerunner to Dark City, The Fly, The Invisible Man and Metropolis. |
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... character of humankind as manifest in the past , the present , the future . In our capacity as the creatures most prone to shape the outside world , out of this inner environment comes an undeniable and unstoppable influence on an ...
... character of humankind as manifest in the past , the present , the future . In our capacity as the creatures most prone to shape the outside world , out of this inner environment comes an undeniable and unstoppable influence on an ...
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... character recalls ' There's no there , there . They taught that to children , explaining cyberspace ' ( 1989 : 55 , emphasis in original ) . This is , of course , an echo of the argument that computer - mediated communications have ...
... character recalls ' There's no there , there . They taught that to children , explaining cyberspace ' ( 1989 : 55 , emphasis in original ) . This is , of course , an echo of the argument that computer - mediated communications have ...
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... character , doing away with chronology , three- dimensionality and with rigid distinctions between animate and inanimate objects , self and other , life and death . ( Jackson 1981 : 1-2 ) However , the fantastic is more than a simple ...
... character , doing away with chronology , three- dimensionality and with rigid distinctions between animate and inanimate objects , self and other , life and death . ( Jackson 1981 : 1-2 ) However , the fantastic is more than a simple ...
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... characters as a world of living persons and to hesitate between a natural and a super- natural explanation of the events described ... this hesitation may also be experienced by a character ... [ and ] the reader must adopt a certain ...
... characters as a world of living persons and to hesitate between a natural and a super- natural explanation of the events described ... this hesitation may also be experienced by a character ... [ and ] the reader must adopt a certain ...
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... characters Nell and Hackworth they offer ways to achieve an emancipatory consciousness and freedom from scarcity ... character of each other . Again Stephenson represents techno- logy as both ' prosthesis ' and ' implosion ' ; it is both ...
... characters Nell and Hackworth they offer ways to achieve an emancipatory consciousness and freedom from scarcity ... character of each other . Again Stephenson represents techno- logy as both ' prosthesis ' and ' implosion ' ; it is both ...
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3 Geographys conquest of history in The Diamond Age | 39 |
4 Space technology and Neal Stephensbns science fiction | 57 |
5 Geographies of power and social relations in Marge Piercys He She and It | 74 |
geographical imaginings in the work of J G Ballard | 90 |
city space and SF horror movies | 104 |
the hysterical materialism of pataphysical space | 123 |
motor pirates time machines and drunkenness on the screen | 136 |
familiar geographies science fiction and popular physics | 156 |
11 Murray Bookchin on Mars The production of nature in Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars trilogy | 167 |
Frankenstein food factishes and fiction | 180 |
References | 193 |
Index | 209 |
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