Science-fiction Studies, Volume 30, Issue 2SFS Publications, 2003 - Science fiction |
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Latour's approach is to challenge both the modernist assumption of a distinct separation from the past , and the boxing , pigeonholing , and encasing of knowledge that follows from such an assumption and surfaces in the comments of a ...
Latour's approach is to challenge both the modernist assumption of a distinct separation from the past , and the boxing , pigeonholing , and encasing of knowledge that follows from such an assumption and surfaces in the comments of a ...
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This narrative of a past life , he suggests , embodies the most powerful sort of discourse found in the genre , that of “ unconscious desires ” or dreams , personal demons that the horror film disconcertingly materializes but then ...
This narrative of a past life , he suggests , embodies the most powerful sort of discourse found in the genre , that of “ unconscious desires ” or dreams , personal demons that the horror film disconcertingly materializes but then ...
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These knowledge systems render social relations abstract and invert the causal linkage of past , present , and future : the present becomes an outcome , not of the receding past , but of the emerging risks of the future .
These knowledge systems render social relations abstract and invert the causal linkage of past , present , and future : the present becomes an outcome , not of the receding past , but of the emerging risks of the future .
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