Cognitive Estrangement Science Fiction

  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Learning from Other Worlds Patrick Parrinder, 2000 With an outspoken and penetrating afterword by Darko Suvin, the contributors to this study convey the essence of cognitive estrangement in relation to science fiction and utopia. All the contributors have been influenced by Suvin's ideas and beliefs.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Metamorphoses of Science Fiction Darko Suvin, 2016 Back in print for the first time since the 1980s, this book is a touchstone for literary and theoretical criticism of science fiction and related genres. Alongside the 1979 text, this edition contains three additional essays by Suvin that update and reconsider the terms of his original intervention, as well as a new introduction and preface.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Learning from Other Worlds Patrick Parrinder, 2000 A collection of new essays on science fiction and utopian literature honouring the work of Darko Suvin, the scholar and literary theorist who co-founded the journal Science-Fiction Studies in 1973. The title of this volume attempts to convey the essence of ‘cognitive estrangement’ in relation to SF and utopia: that by imagining strange worlds we learn to see our own world in a new perspective. The contributors have all been influenced by Darko Suvin’s belief that the double movement of estrangement and cognition reflects deep structures of human storytelling. Learning from otherness is as natural and inevitable a process as the instinct for imitation and representation that Aristotle described in his Poetics. Though written from varying perspectives, the essays in Learning from Other Worlds pay tribute to the intellectual and personal inspiration of Darko Suvin to whom the essays are dedicated.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? Seo-Young Chu, 2011-01-15 In culture and scholarship, science-fictional worlds are perceived as unrealistic and altogether imaginary. Seo-Young Chu offers a bold challenge to this perception of the genre, arguing instead that science fiction is a form of “high-intensity realism” capable of representing non-imaginary objects that elude more traditional, “realist” modes of representation. Powered by lyric forces that allow it to transcend the dichotomy between the literal and the figurative, science fiction has the capacity to accommodate objects of representation that are themselves neither entirely figurative nor entirely literal in nature. Chu explores the globalized world, cyberspace, war trauma, the Korean concept of han, and the rights of robots, all as referents for which she locates science-fictional representations in poems, novels, music, films, visual pieces, and other works ranging within and without previous demarcations of the science fiction genre. In showing the divide between realism and science fiction to be illusory, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? sheds new light on the value of science fiction as an aesthetic and philosophical resource—one that matters more and more as our everyday realities grow increasingly resistant to straightforward representation.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: The Eyes Have It Philip K. Dick,
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Arabic Science Fiction Ian Campbell, 2018-05-25 This book traces the roots of Arabic science fiction through classical and medieval Arabic literature, undertaking close readings of formative texts of Arabic science fiction via a critical framework developed from the work of Western critics of Western science fiction, Arab critics of Arabic science fiction and postcolonial theorists of literature. Ian Campbell investigates the ways in which Arabic science fiction engages with a theoretical concept he terms “double estrangement” wherein these texts provide social or political criticism through estrangement and simultaneously critique their own societies’ inability or refusal to engage in the sort of modernization that would lead the Arab world back to leadership in science and technology.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Defined by a Hollow Darko Suvin, 2010 Darko Suvin explores utopian horizons in fiction & utopian/dystopian readings of historical reality since the 1970s, focusing in the United States & United Kingdom, but drawing also on French, German & Russian sources.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Speculations on Speculation James E. Gunn, Matthew Candelaria, 2005 Science fiction is a field of literature that has great interest and great controversy among its writers and critics. This book examines the roots, history, development, current status, and future directions of the field through articles contributed by well-respected science fiction writers, teachers, and critics. This book can be used as a textbook for courses in theory as well as courses in science fiction literature and science fiction writing.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Critical Theory and Science Fiction Carl Freedman, Carl Freedom, 2013-09-01 Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year. This innovative cultural critique offers valuable insights into science fiction, thus enlarging our understanding of critical theory. Carl Freedman traces the fundamental and mostly unexamined relationships between the discourses of science fiction and critical theory, arguing that science fiction is (or ought to be) a privileged genre for critical theory. He asserts that it is no accident that the upsurge of academic interest in science fiction since the 1970s coincides with the heyday of literary theory, and that likewise science fiction is one of the most theoretically informed areas of the literary profession. Extended readings of novels by five of the most important modern science fiction authors illustrate the affinity between science fiction and critical theory, in each case concentrating on one major novel that resonates with concerns proper to critical theory. Freedman's five readings are: Solaris: Stanislaw Lem and the Structure of Cognition; The Dispossessed: Ursula LeGuin and the Ambiguities of Utopia; The Two of Them: Joanna Russ and the Violence of Gender; Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand: Samuel Delany and the Dialectics of Difference; The Man in the High Castle: Philip K. Dick and the Construction of Realities.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010 Sara Wasson, Emily Alder, 2011-01-01 Gothic fiction's focus on the irrational and supernatural would seem to conflict with science fiction's rational foundations. However, as this novel collection demonstrates, the two categories often intersect in rich and revealing ways. Analyzing a range of works—including literature, film, graphic novels, and trading card games—from the past three decades through the lens of this hybrid genre, this volume examines their engagement with the era's dramatic changes in communication technology, medical science, and personal and global politics.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, 2003-11-20 Table of contents
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: The Spirit of Utopia , 2000-08 I am. We are. That is enough. Now we have to start. These are the opening words of Ernst Bloch's first major work, The Spirit of Utopia, written mostly in 1915-16, published in its first version just after the First World War, republished five years later, 1923, in the version here presented for the first time in English translation. The Spirit of Utopia is one of the great historic books from the beginning of the century, but it is not an obsolete one. In its style of thinking, a peculiar amalgam of biblical, Marxist, and Expressionist turns, in its analytical skills deeply informed by Simmel, taking its information from both Hegel and Schopenhauer for the groundwork of its metaphysics of music but consistently interpreting the cultural legacy in the light of a certain Marxism, Bloch's Spirit of Utopia is a unique attempt to rethink the history of Western civilizations as a process of revolutionary disruptions and to reread the artworks, religions, and philosophies of this tradition as incentives to continue disrupting. The alliance between messianism and Marxism, which was proclaimed in this book for the first time with epic breadth, has met with more critique than acclaim. The expressive and baroque diction of the book was considered as offensive as its stubborn disregard for the limits of disciplines. Yet there is hardly a discipline that didn't adopt, however unknowingly, some of Bloch's insights, and his provocative associations often proved more productive than the statistical account of social shifts. The first part of this philosophical meditation--which is also a narrative, an analysis, a rhapsody, and a manifesto--concerns a mode of self-encounter that presents itself in the history of music from Mozart through Mahler as an encounter with the problem of a community to come. This we-problem is worked out by Bloch in terms of a philosophy of the history of music. The self-encounter, however, has to be conceived as self-invention, as the active, affirmative fight for freedom and social justice, under the sign of Marx. The second part of the book is entitled Karl Marx, Death and the Apocalypse. I am. We are. That's hardly anything. But enough to start.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Lewis Carroll's "Alice" and Cognitive Narratology Francesca Arnavas, 2021-01-18 We live in an age that is witnessing a growing interest in narrative studies, cognitive neuroscientific tools, mind studies and artificial intelligence hypotheses. This book therefore aims to expand the exegesis of Carroll's Alice books, aligning them with the current intellectual environment. The theoretical force of this volume lies in the successful encounter between a great book (and all its polysemous ramifications) and a new interpretative point of view, powerful enough to provide a new original contribution, but well grounded enough not to distort the text itself. Moreover, this book is one of the first to offer a complete, thorough analysis of one single text through the theoretical lens of cognitive narratology, and not just as a series of brief examples embedded within a more general discussion. It emphasises in a more direct, effective way the actual novelty and usefulness of the dialogue established between narrative theory and the cognitive sciences. It links specific concepts elaborated in the theory of cognitive narratology with the analysis of the Alice books, helping in this way to discuss, question and extend the concepts themselves, opening up new interpretations and practical methods.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: The History of Science Fiction A. Roberts, 2005-11-28 The History of Science Fiction traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece up to the present day. The author is both an academic literary critic and acclaimed creative writer of the genre. Written in lively, accessible prose it is specifically designed to bridge the worlds of academic criticism and SF fandom.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Diverse Futures Joy Sanchez-Taylor, 2021 Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color examines the contributions of late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century US and Canadian science fiction authors of color. By looking at the intersections among science fiction authors of multiple races and ethnicities, Joy Sanchez-Taylor seeks to explain how these authors of color are juxtaposing tropes of science fiction with specific cultural references to comment on issues of inclusiveness in Eurowestern cultures. The central argument of this work is that these authors are challenging science fiction's history of Eurocentric representation through the depiction of communities of color in fantastic or futuristic settings, specifically by using cognitive estrangement and the inclusion of non-Eurowestern cultural beliefs and practices to comment on the alienation of racially dominated groups. By exploring science fiction tropes--such as first contact, genetic modification, post-apocalyptic landscapes, and advanced technologies in the works of Octavia E. Butler, Ted Chiang, Sabrina Vourvoulias, and many others--Sanchez-Taylor demonstrates how authors of various races and ethnicities write science fiction that pays homage to the genre while also creating a more diverse and inclusive portrait of the future.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Dr. Adder K. W. Jeter, 1988 Doctor Adder is the story of the nightmare city of Los Angeles, and the two men who battle for its control: John Mox, mind-numbing preacher/leader of the Moral Forcers, and Dr. Adder, who caters to the rich and powerful, changing their bodies and lives to suit their wildest fantasies. Martin's.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Science Fiction in the Real World Norman Spinrad, 1990 Updates Lentz's previous work (which Library journal said was producers, screenwriters, cinematographers, special effects technicians, make-up artists, art directors. III: film index. IV: TV series index. V: alternate title index. Science fiction writer Spinrad presents 13 essays, some previously published, examining particular works in the genre, aspects of the industry, and how they influence each other. Topics include critical standards, the visual expression in comic books and movies, modes of content, politics, and profiles of individual authors. No bibliography. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Science Fiction Before 1900 Paul K. Alkon, 2002 Paul Alkon analyzes several key works that mark the most significant phases in the early evolution of science fiction, including Frankenstein, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, A Connecticut Yankee in King arthur's Court and The Time Machine. He places the work in context and discusses the genre and its relation to other kinds of literature.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Science Fiction Adam Charles Roberts, 2006 'Science Fiction' offers a critical account of the phenomenon of science fiction, illustrating the critical terminology and following the contours of its continuing history. The impact of technological advances on the genre is discussed.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Red Planets Mark Bould, China Miéville, 2009 Science fiction and socialism have always had a close relationship. Many sf novelists and filmmakers are leftists. Others examine explicit or implicit Marxist concerns.As a genre, sf is ideally suited to critiquing the present through its explorations of the social and political possibilities of the future. This is the first collection to combine analyses of sf literature and films within a broader overview of Marxist theorisations of and critical perspectives on the genre.This is an accessible and lively introduction for anyone studying the politics of sf, covering a rich variety of examples from Weimar cinema to mainstream Hollywood films, and novelists from Jules Verne and H.G. Wells to Kim Stanley Robinson, Ken MacLeod and Charles Stross.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Worlds Apart Carl Darryl Malmgren, 1991-07-22 [Malmgren] succeeds in formulating a typology of science fiction that will become a standard reference for some years to come. —Choice . . . the most intelligently organized and effectively argued general study of SF that I have ever read. —Rob Latham, SFRA Review . . . required reading for its evenhanded overview of so much of the previous critical/theoretical material devoted to science fiction. —American Book Review Worlds Apart provides a comprehensive theoretical model for science fiction by examining the worlds of science fiction and the discourse which inscribes them. Malmgren identifies the basic science fiction types, including alien encounters, alternate societies and worlds, and fantasy, and examines the role of the reader in concretizing and interpreting these science fiction worlds.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Science Fiction and Psychology Gavin Miller, 2020 This book offers an in-depth exploration of science fiction literature's varied use of psychological discourses, beginning at the birth of modern psychology in the late nineteenth century and condluding wtith the ascendance of neuroscience in the late twnetieth century.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 4 Mahvesh Murad, 2015-08-14 Now firmly established as the benchmark anthology series of international speculative fiction, volume 4 of The Apex Book of World SF sees debut editor Mahvesh Murad bring fresh new eyes to her selection of stories. From Spanish steampunk and Italian horror to Nigerian science fiction and subverted Japanese folktales, from love in the time of drones to teenagers at the end of the world, the stories in this volume showcase the best of contemporary speculative fiction, wherever it’s written. Cover art and design by Sarah Anne Langton. Important to the future of not only international authors, but the entire SF community. —Strange Horizons Featuring: Vajra Chandrasekera (Sri Lanka) — Pockets Full of Stones Yukimi Ogawa (Japan) — In Her Head, In Her Eyes Zen Cho (Malaysia) — The Four Generations of Chang E Shimon Adaf (Israel) — Like a Coin Entrusted in Faith (Translated by the author) Celeste Rita Baker (Virgin Islands) — Single Entry Nene Ormes (Sweden) — The Good Matter (Translated Lisa J Isaksson and Nene Ormes) JY Yang (Singapore) — Tiger Baby Isabel Yap (Philippines) — A Cup of Salt Tears Usman T Malik (Pakistan) — The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family Kuzhali Manickavel (India) — Six Things We Found During the Autopsy Elana Gomel (Israel) — The Farm Haralambi Markov (Bulgaria) — The Language of Knives Sabrina Huang (Taiwan) — Setting Up Home (Translated by Jeremy Tiang) Sathya Stone (Sri Lanka) — Jinki and the Paradox Johann Thorsson (Iceland) — First, Bite a Finger Dilman Dila (Uganda) — How My Father Became a God Swabir Silayi (Kenya) — Colour Me Grey Deepak Unnikrishnan (The Emirates) — Sarama Chinelo Onwualu (Nigeria) — The Gift of Touch Saad Z. Hossain (Bangaldesh) — Djinns Live by the Sea Bernardo Fernández (Mexico) — The Last Hours of the Final Days (Translated by the author) Natalia Theodoridou (Greece) — The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul Samuel Marolla (Italy) — Black Tea (Translated by Andrew Tanzi) Julie Novakova (Czech Republic) — The Symphony of Ice and Dust Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Netherlands) — The Boy Who Cast No Shadow (Translated by Laura Vroomen) Sese Yane (Kenya) — The Corpse Tang Fei — Pepe (Translated by John Chu) Rocío Rincón (Spain) — The Lady of the Soler Colony (Translated by James and Marian Womack)
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Rediscovering French Science-Fiction in Literature, Film and Comics Philippe Mather, Sylvain Rheault, 2016-02-29 French science-fiction (SF) is as old as the French language. Cyrano de Bergerac wrote about a trip to the moon that was published back in 1657, as did Jules Verne in 1865, this time using hard, scientific facts. The first movie showing a trip to the moon was made by Georges Méliès in 1902. In the comics’ format, Hergé had Tintin walk on the moon in 1954, 15 years before Neil Armstrong. These are just a few of the many unique French contributions to SF that rightly deserve to be better known. One of the purposes of this collection is to introduce French SF to an English-speaking audience. Rediscovering French Science Fiction... first revisits proto science-fiction from authors like Cyrano de Bergerac and Jules Verne, before delving into contemporary science-fiction works from authors such as René Barjavel and Jacques Spitz. A contribution from preeminent SF author Élisabeth Vonarburg, from Québec, helps to understand the constraints and advantages of writing SF in French. A third section is devoted to French SF in movies and graphic novels, media where French creators have been recognized worldwide. This collection explores many aspects of French SF, including the genre’s deep roots in popular culture, the influence of key authors on its historical development, and the form and function of science and fantasy, as well as the impact of films and graphic novels on the public perception of the genre’s nature.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: To Brecht and Beyond Darko Suvin, 1984
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Reading Science Fiction James Gunn, Marleen Barr, Matthew Candelaria, 2009 Reading Science Fiction brings together world class scholars and fiction writers to introduce the history, concepts and contexts necessary to understanding this fascinating genre. Comprehensive and engaging, Reading Science Fiction includes: * Explores a wide range of theoretical approaches to studying science fiction, such as gender studies, post-colonial studies and structuralism * Maps the definitions and history of science fiction, including its origin, influences and parallel development with modern society * Introduces major science fiction writers such as Arthur C. Clarke, Joanna Russ, Octavia Butler and Kim Stanley Roberts. This work provides valuable insights into the world of science-fiction, this thought-provoking textbook makes learning how to read science fiction an exciting and collaborative process for teachers and students alike.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: The Science Fiction Handbook M. Keith Booker, Anne-Marie Thomas, 2009-03-30 The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres. Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including time-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disaster narratives and works of utopian and dystopian science fiction Each subgenre survey includes an extensive list of relevant critical readings, recommended novels in the subgenre, and recommended films relevant to the subgenre Features entries on a number of key science fiction authors and extensive discussion of major science fiction novels or sequences Writers and works include Isaac Asimov; Margaret Atwood; George Orwell; Ursula K. Le Guin; The War of the Worlds (1898); Starship Troopers (1959); Mars Trilogy (1993-6); and many more A 'Science Fiction Glossary' completes this indispensable Handbook
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Semley's Necklace Ursula K. Le Guin, 2017-02-14 The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. Semley's Necklace is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Structural Fabulation Robert Scholes, 1995
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Screening Space Vivian Carol Sobchack, 1997 This text attempts to shape definitions of the American science fiction film, studying the connection between the films and social preconceptions. It covers many classic films and discusses their import, seeking to rescue the genre from the neglect of film theorists. The book should appeal to both film buff and fans of science fiction.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: The Steerswoman Rosemary Kirstein, 2019-04-12 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION If you ask, she must answer. A steerswoman's knowledge is shared with any who request it; no steerswoman may refuse a question, and no steerswoman may answer with anything but the truth.And if she asks, you must answer. It is the other side of tradition's contract -- and if you refuse the question, or lie, no steerswoman will ever again answer even your most casual question.And so, the steerswomen - always seeking, always investigating - have gathered more and more knowledge about the world they travel, and they share that knowledge freelyUntil the day that the steerswoman Rowan begins asking innocent questions about one small, lovely, inexplicable object...Her discoveries grow stranger and deeper, and more dangerous, until suddenly she finds she must flee or fight for her life. Or worse -- lie.Because one kind of knowledge has always been denied the the steerswomen: Magic.If you haven't read Kirstein's Steerswoman books I envy you the chance to read them now for the first time.... I think they have a very good claim to be my favorite thing still being written. [...] If you like science, and if you like watching someone work out mysteries, and if you like detailed weird alien worlds and human cultures, if really good prose appeals... you're really in luck. - Jo Walton, Hugo and Nebula Awards winner, author of Among Others and Farthing.[Kirstein] walks the tightrope between fantasy and science fiction with precision and grace... [her] compassion for even minor characters is evident on every page, and her prose is measured and alluring without being overworked. -- Damien Broderick & Paul Di Filippo, in Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Man a Machine ; And, Man a Plant Julien Offray de La Mettrie, 1994-01-01 The first modern translation of the complete texts of La Mettrie's pioneering L'Homme machine and L'Homme plante, first published in 1747 and 1748, respectively, this volume also includes translations of the advertisement and dedication to L'Homme machine. Justin Leiber's introduction illuminates the radical thinking and advocacy of the passionate La Mettrie and provides cogent analysis of La Mettrie's relationship to such important philosophical figures as Descartes, Malebranche, and Locke, and of his lasting influence on the development of materialism, cognitive studies, linguistics, and other areas of intellectual inquiry.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Everfair Nisi Shawl, 2016-09-06 From acclaimed short fiction writer Nisi Shawl comes a brilliant alternate history set in the Congo, where heroes strive for a Utopia and endeavor to live together despite their differences. Now with a foreward from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull. In this re-imagining of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo, African American missionaries join forces with British socialists to purchase land from the Congo Free State's owner, King Leopold II. This land, which they name Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven for native populations of the Congo as well as settlers from around the world, including dream-eyed Europeans attempting to create a better society, formerly enslaved people returning from America, and Chinese railroad builders escaping hard labor. Using the combined knowledge of four continents, Everfair becomes a land of spying cats and gulls, nuclear dirigibles buoyed by barkcloth balloons, and silent pistols that shoot poison knives. With this technology, Everfair will attempt to defeat the Belgian tyrant Leopold II. But even if they can defeat their great enemy, a looming world war and political infighting may threaten to destroy everything they have built. “A book with gorgeous sweep, spanning years and continents, loves and hates, histories and fantasies... Everfair is sometimes sad, often luminous, and always original. A wonderful achievement.” — Karen Joy Fowler At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: The Book of Forks Rob Davis, 2019 The much-anticipated final volume of Rob Davis's dark and inventive trilogy The Motherless Ovenand The Can Opener's Daughtermay have raised more questions than they answered, but The Book of Forks explains everything. Castro Smith finds himself imprisoned within the mysterious Power Station, writing his Book of Forks while navigating baffling daily meetings with Poly, a troubled young woman who may be his teacher, his doctor, his prison guard . . . or something else entirely. Meanwhile, back home, Vera and Scarper's search for their missing friend takes them through the chaotic war zone of the Bear Park and into new and terrifying worlds. With The Book of Forks, Rob Davis completes his abstract adventure trilogy by stepping inside Castro's disintegrating mind to reveal the truth about the history of the world, the meaning of existence, and the purpose of kitchen scales.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: A Twentieth-century Literature Reader Suman Gupta, David Johnson, 2005 This critical Reader is the essential companion to any course in twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of key writers and critics, the selected extracts provide: a literary-historical overview of the twentieth century insight into theoretical discussions around the purpose, value and form of literature which dominated the century closer examination of representative texts from the period, around which key critical issues might be debated. Clearly conveying the excitement generated by twentieth-century literary texts and by the provocative critical ideas and arguments that surrounded them, this reader can be used alongside the two volumes of Debating Twentieth-Century Literature or as a core text for any module on the literature of the last century. Texts examined in detail include: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Mansfield's Short Stories, poetry of the 1930s, Gibbon's Sunset Song, Eliot's Prufrock, Brecht's Galileo, Woolf's Orlando, Okigbo's Selected Poems, du Maurier's Rebecca, poetry by Ginsburg and O'Hara, Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Puig's Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Heaney's New Selected Poems 1966-1987, Gurnah's Paradise and Barker's The Ghost Road.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Wars and Capital Eric Alliez, Maurizio Lazzarato, 2018-05-04 A critique of capital through the lens of war, and a critique of war through the lens of the revolution of 1968. “We are at war,” declared the President of the French Republic on the evening of November 13, 2015. But what is this war, exactly? In Wars and Capital, Éric Alliez and Maurizio Lazzarato propose a counter-history of capitalism to recover the reality of the wars that are inflicted on us and denied to us. We experience not the ideal war of philosophers, but wars of class, race, sex, and gender; wars of civilization and the environment; wars of subjectivity that are raging within populations and that constitute the secret motor of liberal governmentality. By naming the enemy (refugees, migrants, Muslims), the new fascisms establish their hegemony on the processes of political subjectivation by reducing them to racist, sexist, and xenophobic slogans, fanning the flames of war among the poor and maintaining the total war philosophy of neoliberalism. Because war and fascism are the repressed elements of post-'68 thought, Alliez and Lazzarato not only read the history of capital through war but also read war itself through the strange revolution of '68, which made possible the passage from war in the singular to a plurality of wars—and from wars to the construction of new war machines against contemporary financialization. It is a question of pushing “'68 thought” beyond its own limits and redirecting it towards a new pragmatics of struggle linked to the continuous war of capital. It is especially important for us to prepare ourselves for the battles we will have to fight if we do not want to be always defeated.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Dreamland Rosa Rankin-Gee, 2021-04-15 For fans of Children of Men, Years and Years & Station Eleven, a postcard from a future Britain that’s closer than we think. ‘A beautiful book: thought-provoking, eerily prescient and very witty.’ Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half 'Water courses through its pages, as rising sea levels heighten inequalities, buoy populist politicians and wash away every certainty of civilisation. But there’s also the novel’s prose – its liquid grace and glinting sparkle – and the sheer irresistibility of a narrative that sweeps along with a force that feels tidal in its pull.' The Observer ''You said that you would come back. You looked me in the eye and said that. Well, if you had, this is what you would have seen: soft wood, black cracks, fridges in the road. The broken spines of old rides at Dreamland.' In the coastal resort of Margate, hotels lie empty and sun-faded ‘For Sale’ signs line the streets. The sea is higher – it’s higher everywhere – and those who can are moving inland. A young girl called Chance, however, is just arriving. Chance’s family is one of many offered a cash grant to move out of London - and so she, her mother Jas and brother JD relocate to the seaside, just as the country edges towards vertiginous change. In their new home, they find space and wide skies, a world away from the cramped bedsits they’ve lived in up until now. But challenges swiftly mount. JD’s business partner, Kole, has a violent, charismatic energy that whirlpools around him and threatens to draw in the whole family. And when Chance comes across Franky, a girl her age she has never seen before – well-spoken and wearing sunscreen – something catches in the air between them. Their fates are bound: a connection that is immediate, unshakeable, and, in a time when social divides have never cut sharper, dangerous. Set in a future unsettlingly close to home, against a backdrop of soaring inequality and creeping political extremism, Rankin-Gee demonstrates, with cinematic pace and deep humanity, the enduring power of love and hope in a world spinning out of control.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Sublime Art Stephen Zepke, 2017-07-28 Stephen Zepke shows how the idea of sublime art waxes and wanes in the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Rancière and the recent Speculative Realism movement.
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Science Fiction Dan Byrne-Smith, 2020-03-25
  cognitive estrangement science fiction: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction Darko Suvin, 1988-06-18
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'eneric &luency in Professional Subtitling: Neology as the …
science fiction cognitive estrangement produced by the source text) are in minority in the study material, the neologies can be seen to normalise towards common language in the translation …

Neologies as the Voice of Science Fiction in Translation: the …
estrangement and cognition are regarded crucial for achieving generic fluency, the genre is rendered unfluent in the example. Example 2 shows, however, how the same strategy

Carl Freedman Science Fiction and Critical Theory - JSTOR
historical materialism was not only cognitive but positively scientific in the strongest sense, and Marx fully as much the founder of a science as Galileo. But Suvin does, in fact, seem to find …

Technobabble on screen: Translating science fiction films
science fiction narrative is based on the condition of “cognitive estrangement” (Suvin 1979), and its main formal device is defamiliarisation paired with the creation of imaginary worlds.

Science Fiction as Cognitive Estrangement: Darko Suvin and …
particular, "SF is the literature of cognitive estrangement."2 That is, SF describes an alternative imaginary universe but de-velops it with cognitive, "scientific" rigor. This combination of …

Fafnir Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy …
46 Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research 1979 book Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, attempted to distinguish science fiction from other forms of fantastic literature …

1-1-2016 Science Fiction - core.ac.uk
Science Fiction Gerry Canavan Marquette University, gerard.canavan@marquette.edu Published version. "Science Fiction," inOxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, David McCooey. ...

Estrangement and Reconciliation in the Culture Clashes of …
Cognitive estrangement, which describes the effect of science fiction on readers, also describes the effects of culture clash on the characters within the texts, who are depicted experiencing an

Science Fiction Film and Late Modernity - Universiteit Gent
work as a microcosm and a portal into the basic conventions and traits of the science fiction genre. 1.1. Cognitive estrangement In his introduction to Science Fiction: A collection of Critical …

The Gothic Origins of Science Fiction - JSTOR
Science fiction is thus really anti-science fiction, a form of apocalyptic fantasy verging on religious myth. "The dream of reason produces monsters," reads the title of one of Goya's etchings. …

Science Fictional Aesthetics: The Novum & Cognitive …
May 28, 2022 · Science fiction and contemporary art engagement, science fiction is typically are connected by a set of related conceptual interests and formal expressions. This paper argues …

Hidden Histories, Traveling Time
Science Fiction Translation as Cognitive Estrangement BARYON TENSOR POSADAS Translation and Techno-Orientalism The global circulation of Japanese science fictional …

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Beyond cognitive estrangement – The future of science …
Keywords: cinema, cognitive, dystopia, future, science fiction, utopia Introduction Science fiction is about the future. This is an obvious thing to say, though its obviousness conceals a debate that …

Beyond cognitive estrangement – The future of science …
present. The novum is science fiction’s very own Verfremdungseffekt. This process of critical reflection is the ‘cognitive estrangement’ achieved by ‘science fiction’ (each of the terms …

Arabic Science Fiction - SFRA Review
cognitive estrangement as significant for understanding Arabic SF and for Arabic-language SF scholars. As a result, Campbell’s project is an examination of the manifestations of cognitive …

A Note on Marxism and Fantasy - Brill
in‘ uenced. In Critical Theory and Science Fiction (2000), I accept (with modi” - cations) the Suvinian concept of SF as the literature of cognitive estrangement, and I maintain that science …

The Attraction of Sloppy Nonsense - QUT
The exegesis argues that both science and science fiction narrate the dissolution of ontological structures, resulting in cognitive estrangement. Fallacy writers engage in the same process …

Beyond cognitive estrangement – The future of science …
Keywords: cinema, cognitive, dystopia, future, science fiction, utopia Introduction Science fiction is about the future. This is an obvious thing to say, though its obviousness conceals a debate that …

CORRELATION BETWEEN AFROFUTURISM AND SCIENCE …
SCIENCE FICTION IN SPACE IS THE PLACE: PRAXIS OR PARADOX? GLORIA ADJEIWAA FOFIE Universidade Católica Portuguesa ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3539-2820 …

Aaron Santesso Fascism and Science Fiction - JSTOR
notion of cognitive estrangement: “the overall ideological atmosphere of the world generally taken to be the world of science fiction [i.e., pulp fiction] was, therefore, inhospitable to the kind of …

Things Made Strange: On the Concept of 'Estrangement' in …
Suvin defined sf as the "genre of cognitive estrangement" in his Metamorphoses of Science Fiction (1979).1 Although everyone seems to agree that sf renders the content of its stories …

Strategies of Cognitive Estrangement in Kim Stanley …
cognitive estrangement, a literary technique encouraging the reader to change his/her perspective on the surrounding world. e idea was developed by the literary scholar Darko Suvin, a …

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words, cognitive estrangement is the factual reporting of fiction. It has the significant effect of estranging, alienating us from our usual assumptions about reality. Through cognitive …

Beyond cognitive estrangement – The future of science …
Keywords: cinema, cognitive, dystopia, future, science fiction, utopia Introduction Science fiction is about the future. This is an obvious thing to say, though its obviousness conceals a debate that …

Generic Exhaustion and the 'Heat Death' of Science Fiction
Generic Exhaustion and the "Heat Death" of Science Fiction Do everything at the proper time Keep everything in its proper place Use everything for its proper purpose. ... Darko Suvin …

Decoding the Dystopia of The Water Knife
Cognitive estrangement is the presence of a novum (constructions of other-worlds or innovations) in a story or novel, which acts a new device that compels the reader to ... One of the most …

Premodern Orientalist Science Fictions - JSTOR
science fiction has been engaged in a parallel discourse about the roles Asia and Asians will play in Western conceptions of the future, and has ... For Le Guin, Daoism is an ideal device of …

(Re)reading Queerly: Science Fiction, Feminism, and the
26 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 26 (1999) Many lesbian-feminist science fiction writers have been at the forefront of queer challenges to the regime of compulsory …

Sherryl Vint Possibilities for a Science-Fiction Cinema - JSTOR
sf—conceived of through Darko Suvin’s influential paradigm of cognitive estrangement—and the focus on spectacle and special effects in blockbuster sf that dates from at least the release of …

Generic Fluency in Professional Subtitling : Neology as the …
science fiction cognitive estrangement produced by the source text) are in minority in the study material, the neologies can be seen to normalise towards common language in the translation …

Call for Papers: Sexual Violence and Science Fiction - SFRA …
Through cognitive estrangement, science fiction authors envision futures and reflect on contemporary issues. Sexual violence—or, at the very least, the act of sex itself—has been …

SCIENCE FICTION AND POSTHUMANISM IN THE …
Foreword: From Cognitive Estrangement to Cognitive Engagement in Science Fiction x Acknowledgements xiii List of Abbreviations xiv INTRODUCTION 1 Chapter 1 ISAAC …

Ursula Le Guin and Octavia Butler Probe Feminist Futures
Haraway writes that “The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion” (Haraway 6). Rather than simply a rhetorical device to support ... “Cognitive Estrangement” …

Beyond cognitive estrangement – The future of science …
Keywords: cinema, cognitive, dystopia, future, science fiction, utopia Introduction Science fiction is about the future. This is an obvious thing to say, though its obviousness conceals a debate that …

Schemata of estrangement in Ursula K. Le Guin s The …
Estrangement and science fiction ... Metamorphoses of Science Fiction, remains the most comprehensive Whitt 3. theoretical treatment of estrangement in science fiction literature to …

Two cheers for collapse? On the uses and abuses of the …
KEYWORDS Collapse; anthropocene; collapsology; deep adaptation; science fiction; cognitive estrangement The idea that climate change has the potential to cause the collapse of society is …

Imagining Alternatives: Exploring Postcolonial Paradigms and …
western form, which Darko Suvin describes as “cognitive estrangement”. This term explains the effect that science fiction has on its readers. Darko Suvin defines SF as a literature of ‘cognitive …

ENG 256 – LITERATURE OF SCIENCE FICTION (3 CR.)
• Distinguish science fiction from other “mainstream” literature, as well as other fantastic ... extrapolation, and cognitive estrangement in selected works. • Identify the scientific premise of …

What Can Double Estrangement Reveal about Speculative …
phrase “double estrangement” to describe science fiction texts that add a layer of racial self-consciousness to the estrangement of science fictional settings. This term juxtaposes the ideas …

Domestication and Foreignisation in a Cognitively Estranged …
Darko Suvin argues for an understanding of science fiction as the literature of ‘cognitive estrangement’. This paper will take Suvin’s notion as its starting point, examining extracts from …

120 Δόξα / Докса. 2021. Вип. 1 (35) Δόξα ... - ResearchGate
The study conceptualizes science fiction as heuristics. To implement this ... artistic conventionality, cognitive estrangement, and test of an intellectual idea or fantastic …

The Gothic Origins of Science Fiction - JSTOR
Science fiction is thus really anti-science fiction, a form of apocalyptic fantasy verging on religious myth. "The dream of reason produces monsters," reads the title of one of Goya's etchings. …

the dual alienation in waste - JSTOR
THE DUAL ALIENATION IN WASTE TIDE 673 CLS 57.4_07_Hua.indd Page 672 19/12/20 6:47 pm CLS 57.4_07_Hua.indd Page 673 19/12/20 6:47 pm Also, in his influential Metamorphosis …