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By attending to Ministry’s treatment of political economy, genre, and literary style, I locate money, and more specifically, the radical potential of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) as the formal mediator–the social and aesthetic modality–of the vital and inalienable burden of creating a better future.
Aug 3, 2017 · This article aimed to uncover the foci, themes, and findings of research literature that utilized science fiction content or concepts to describe and illustrate human culture. To capture a represen...
- Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Karen Diane Cheer
- 2017
It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from these different angles.
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- Space Travel
- Medical Advances
- Robotics and Materials
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Many of the advances postulated in fiction have already come to fruition; thus, the most incisive ones are those humanity has not yet fully realized. At the present time, space travel has already enhanced the terrestrial economy through satellites and various scientific breakthroughs. Extrapolating this progress—and even writing prior to the Space ...
Medical advances have extended lifespans and reduced illness, expanding employment. But what happens as these advances continue? Should humans be able to live a long time—if not indefinitely—in some form, consumption habits and productivity levels would inevitably change. In Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon, human consciousness can be transferred...
Asimov imagines that colonization beyond Earth can occur only with advances in materials sciences and robotics. Specifically, “those very robots can accompany humans, smooth the difficulties of initial adjustment to a raw world, make colonization practical” (Asimov 1985, p. 97). Increased automation lowers the risk to humans and increases the chanc...
The expansion of civilization into the stars would necessitate advances in communication to bring closer together those who are physically far apart. On Earth, too, improved communication has allowed remote work and outsourcing to maximize the use of resources across the globe. But, as with ice-nine, technologies have unintended consequences. In th...
groundbreaking science fiction of the sixties and seventies (with a few brief excursions to the eighties and nineties) through various mediums, including the experimental short stories, landmark novels, and innovative films that characterize the period.
Oct 9, 2020 · Techne is empirical in the sense that science fiction refers to the experience of the existence of an empirically based world, and the survey of science fiction readers finds clear and practical categories that separate science fiction from fantasy literature.
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Oct 2, 2014 · Joan Gordon analyzes the development of “literary” science fiction into three main groupings: SF that foregrounds the specific aesthetic qualities characteristic of the genre, SF that mimics some of the styles of writing of the literary mainstream, and SF that prominently alludes to works of canonical literature.
