Science-fiction Studies, Volume 24, Part 1SFS Publications., 1997 - Science fiction |
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Page 83
At which point , when there is no real and no fictional , nothing has any meaning . One must believe that there is some meaningful reality to believe anything at all . The real is the basis for any form of social or ethical concern .
At which point , when there is no real and no fictional , nothing has any meaning . One must believe that there is some meaningful reality to believe anything at all . The real is the basis for any form of social or ethical concern .
Page 84
Baudrillard , epitomizing the extremes of postmodernism , has given up questions of ' real ' meaning as meaningless . Dick — and this is what makes him an sf author , not a postmodernist - hasn't given up . Baudrillard uses the word ...
Baudrillard , epitomizing the extremes of postmodernism , has given up questions of ' real ' meaning as meaningless . Dick — and this is what makes him an sf author , not a postmodernist - hasn't given up . Baudrillard uses the word ...
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Socio - ethical issues are a vital concern ; the struggle to establish meaning and truth animates both feminism and much sf . They were made for each other ; the strength of sf , as I have said , resides in its recourse to other ways of ...
Socio - ethical issues are a vital concern ; the struggle to establish meaning and truth animates both feminism and much sf . They were made for each other ; the strength of sf , as I have said , resides in its recourse to other ways of ...
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