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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... fantasy is about being absent from home ( the abandoned child or assertive voyager of the fairy tale , the science - fiction traveller or pioneer , and the inhabitant of the gothic mansion who finds her space invaded from within by the ...
... fantasy is about being absent from home ( the abandoned child or assertive voyager of the fairy tale , the science - fiction traveller or pioneer , and the inhabitant of the gothic mansion who finds her space invaded from within by the ...
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... fantasy , which is estranging but noncognitive , and from ' realistic ' fiction ( cognitive but natural- istic ) . The novum has since been discussed as part of the experience of reading SF ( Shippey 1991 ) or as a way into thinking ...
... fantasy , which is estranging but noncognitive , and from ' realistic ' fiction ( cognitive but natural- istic ) . The novum has since been discussed as part of the experience of reading SF ( Shippey 1991 ) or as a way into thinking ...
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... fantasy , and the troubling or comforting significance of dreams , the uncanny , mirrors , and the abject ( see also Burgin et al . , 1989 ) . Critical interest in psycho- analytical readings of the fantastic is strongly developed in ...
... fantasy , and the troubling or comforting significance of dreams , the uncanny , mirrors , and the abject ( see also Burgin et al . , 1989 ) . Critical interest in psycho- analytical readings of the fantastic is strongly developed in ...
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... fantasy . Even hard SF requires an element of the unknown , into which writers cast a net fashioned of reigning theory ' ( 1993 : 193 ) . Regardless of its setting in time and space , SF depends on transgressions of what its readers ...
... fantasy . Even hard SF requires an element of the unknown , into which writers cast a net fashioned of reigning theory ' ( 1993 : 193 ) . Regardless of its setting in time and space , SF depends on transgressions of what its readers ...
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... fantasy . Many of the most interesting worlds of SF have been created by women , people of colour , gay men and lesbians , who have made power visible through their estranging fictions . For similar reasons , the most engaging ...
... fantasy . Many of the most interesting worlds of SF have been created by women , people of colour , gay men and lesbians , who have made power visible through their estranging fictions . For similar reasons , the most engaging ...
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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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