Science-fiction Studies, Volume 30, Issue 2SFS Publications, 2003 - Science fiction |
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... argues that sf has worked historically to reinforce the social order created by modern technology and capitalism . In " Science Fiction and the Crisis of the Educated Middle Class , " media critic Adrian Mellor sees sf as implicated in ...
... argues that sf has worked historically to reinforce the social order created by modern technology and capitalism . In " Science Fiction and the Crisis of the Educated Middle Class , " media critic Adrian Mellor sees sf as implicated in ...
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... argues that sf is a lens that " defamiliarize [ s ] the familiar and make [ s ] the familiar new and strange " ( 21 ) . Generally speaking , these critics argue that sf , considered as a mode of apperception or thought experiment , has ...
... argues that sf is a lens that " defamiliarize [ s ] the familiar and make [ s ] the familiar new and strange " ( 21 ) . Generally speaking , these critics argue that sf , considered as a mode of apperception or thought experiment , has ...
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... argues in his conclusion , " Dionysian rhetoric , which traditionally has been viewed as apocalyptic , smuggles in certain ideas antagonistic to historical closure , " ideas that prove fruitful in a time of " exhaustion " ( 179 ) . He ...
... argues in his conclusion , " Dionysian rhetoric , which traditionally has been viewed as apocalyptic , smuggles in certain ideas antagonistic to historical closure , " ideas that prove fruitful in a time of " exhaustion " ( 179 ) . He ...
Contents
Anthropology Science | 180 |
The Mummys | 217 |
Istvan CsicseryRonay Jr Science Fiction and Empire | 231 |
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