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Feb 22, 2018 · Donna Haraway (b.1944) has been concerned with deflating the uncritical acceptance of key oppositions, which have political implications, related to the domain of science, particularly to biology: human– animal, animal–machine, mind–body, male–female, fiction–reality, nature–culture, science–society.
Aug 3, 2017 · Science fiction analysis is best carried out in a mixture of forms, that historical perspective is necessary for most interpretation, that science fiction contains rich examples and can be read from a number of different, mixed, perspectives.
- Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Karen Diane Cheer
- 2017
Oct 2, 2014 · While some have seen extrapolation and speculation as opposites, others have seen them as sequential stages in an imaginative process, and still others have used the terms interchangeably, the distinctions between them blurred by differing conceptions of plausibility and of science.
These new technologies helped fuel the ideas behind Science Fiction and Fantasy literature, which exploded in the 1920s with Hugo Gernsback’s publication of several Science Fiction and...
Jan 25, 2022 · The chapter introduces three novel concepts: ‘biofiction,’ ‘biodiscourse,’ and ‘bioimagination’ to talk about intersections of literary and visual texts and biotechnology; it juxtaposes artistic...
Jun 5, 2018 · We discovered that reading science fiction and fantasy may have a role in sustained, and cognitively beneficial, adoption of reading by young people and is complementary to other forms of consumption, rather than competitive. Science fiction was also found to be an important influence on the perception and acceptance of science by the public.
Feb 24, 2024 · Speculative biology is a science-fiction genre that explores possible life forms of the past and future—if you’ve ever seen illustrations of hypothetical life forms from the early days of Planet Earth, or read about how humans might evolve over millions of years of spaceflight, you’re already familiar with a bit of speculative biology ...
