Lost in space : geographies of science fiction
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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xii, 211 pages) : illustrations, maps
9781847143211, 9780826479204, 9781472545756, 9781281294722, 9786611294724, 1847143210, 0826479200, 1472545753, 1281294721, 6611294724
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Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Lost in space; 2 The way it wasn''t: alternative histories, contingent geographies; 3 Geography''s conquest of history in The Diamond Age; 4 Space, technology and Neal Stephensbn''s science fiction; 5 Geographies of power and social relations in Marge Piercy''s He, She and It; 6 The subjectivity of the near future: geographical imaginings in the work of J.G. Ballard; 7 Tuning the self: city space and SF horror movies; 8 Science fiction and cinema: the hysterical materialism of pataphysical space. 9 An invention without a future, a solution without a problem: motor pirates, time machines and drunkenness on the screen10 What we can say about nature: familiar geographies, science fiction and popular physics; 11 Murray Bookchin on Mars! The production of nature in Kim Stanley Robinson''s Mars trilogy; 12 In the belly of the monster: Frankenstein, food, factishes and fiction; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
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