Science-fiction Studies, Volume 30, Issue 2SFS Publications, 2003 - Science fiction |
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Franz Boas's " culture history , " for example , called for the reconstruction of cultural development through analyses of the diffusion of cultural elements . " But this emphasis has led to a number of problems involving the way ...
Franz Boas's " culture history , " for example , called for the reconstruction of cultural development through analyses of the diffusion of cultural elements . " But this emphasis has led to a number of problems involving the way ...
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For many reasons , sf studies felt it imperative to define the genre in opposition to so - called fantasy . Fantasy - a vexed genre term if there ever was one - was , like sf , also experiencing a boom in the late 1960s and early 1970s ...
For many reasons , sf studies felt it imperative to define the genre in opposition to so - called fantasy . Fantasy - a vexed genre term if there ever was one - was , like sf , also experiencing a boom in the late 1960s and early 1970s ...
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... with ontological pluralism than it is with the technological dominant , a largely materialist conception of technology's capacity to transform raw reality into diverse worlds ( a process I have called artificial immanence ) .
... with ontological pluralism than it is with the technological dominant , a largely materialist conception of technology's capacity to transform raw reality into diverse worlds ( a process I have called artificial immanence ) .
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