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Gendered Cartographies in Melissa Scott’s Science Fiction: Queering Shadow Man (1995)
Published 2025-01-01“…In this article, I draw from different academic fields such as science fiction studies, space studies and feminist and queer studies to explore how the speculative elements of the novel influence the construal of gender identity, and I question whether Scott’s narrative can be interpreted as a hopeful space for queer liberation in the face of hostility. …”
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Mini Worldlit: A Dataset of Contemporary Fiction from 13 Countries, Nine Languages, and Five Continents
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‘Art Happens not in Isolation, But in Community’: The Collective Literacies of Media Fandom
Published 2019-12-01“…When the Archive of Our Own (AO3) received a prestigious Hugo Award from the World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin the summer of 2019, this moment represented a recognition by the literary science fiction community of an alternative model of authorship – one which operates outside the publishing world or academia, one where authorship is collective rather than individual, and one where artworks are appropriative and transformative rather than “original.” …”
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Et si nous pouvions interviewer le boson de Higgs ?
Published 2024-12-01“…This contribution takes up the plastic anthropology exercise by offering a science fiction (or linguistics fiction) short story, “Un dialogue particulier”, in which the author imagines an ethnography of the Higgs boson: an elementary particle whose existence was confirmed by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 2012 with the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). …”
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Critical Examination of International Law Theories
Published 2024-12-01“…Moreover, the paper analyzes the realist, fictional, and functional theories of international law. …”
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Fossils and Theories of Evolution in Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard et Pécuchet
Published 2011-07-01“…This paper proposes a close textual analysis of Chapter III of the masterpiece of comic and satirical fiction that is Gustave Flaubert’s last novel, Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881). …”
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The Worm and the Ecologist: Experiencing Planetarity with Frank Herbert’s Dune
Published 2023-11-01“…This article explores how Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune offers occasions for the development of an ecological, Gaian sensitivity, pushing the human sensorium towards the planetary (in relation to, and contradistinction to, the global, colonial, and imperial imaginaries) by using tools typical of fantasy and science fiction, such as world-building, immersion, sensationalism, terrain navigation, non-modern epistemologies, oneiric possession, geological actants, dragon-like giant sandworms, and human-eating birds. …”
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Signs of Innovation in European Cinema. Electronic Music in Antonioni and Tarkovsky
Published 2025-02-01“…Tarkovsky’s well-established relationship with Eduard Artemiev, matured within the Moscow studio, allowed Tarkovsky to use electronic sounds in some of his films, such as Solaris, in a manner far removed from the worn-out standards of science-fiction cinema. Likewise, Antonioni found in the music of Vittorio Gielmetti a suitable aural commentary on the mental disorders of the protagonist in Deserto rosso, inserting electronic music into the palette to describe the horizons of the inner human psyche. …”
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‘Savages’ and Spiritual Engines: Feeling the Machine in H. G. Wells’s Time Machine and ‘Lord of the Dynamos’
Published 2018-06-01“…This essay explores the vestigial influence of natural theology, and its discourse of divine design, on H. G. Wells’s fictions of technology. In Natural Theology (1802), an influential text in this spiritual tradition, William Paley envisions a natural world of analogical clocks, which persuade and appeal to viewers through an immersive encounter with material artistry and skill. …”
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Advanced methodologies and technologies in government and society /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Zykov -- Information science and technology in crisis response and management / Randy Basham -- The foundation of (business) ethics' evolution / Ben Tran -- Integrating sustainability and CSR in the value chain of the information technology sector / Patricia Martínez García de Leaniz, María Elena García Ruiz -- The morality of reporting safety concerns in aviation / Kawtar Tani -- Science, ethics, and weapons research / John Forge -- Computing technologies and science fiction cinema / Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco -- Gender differences in advertising engagement using the case of Facebooks ads / Eva Lahuerta-Otero, Rebeca Cordero-Gutiérrez -- The gender dimension in urban air quality / Theodora Slini, Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou -- How exclusive work climates create barriers for women in IS&T / Katelyn R. …”
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Advanced methodologies and technologies in government and society /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Zykov -- Information science and technology in crisis response and management / Randy Basham -- The foundation of (business) ethics' evolution / Ben Tran -- Integrating sustainability and CSR in the value chain of the information technology sector / Patricia Martínez García de Leaniz, María Elena García Ruiz -- The morality of reporting safety concerns in aviation / Kawtar Tani -- Science, ethics, and weapons research / John Forge -- Computing technologies and science fiction cinema / Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco -- Gender differences in advertising engagement using the case of Facebooks ads / Eva Lahuerta-Otero, Rebeca Cordero-Gutiérrez -- The gender dimension in urban air quality / Theodora Slini, Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou -- How exclusive work climates create barriers for women in IS&T / Katelyn R. …”
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On writing about illness in Kuwait. A discussion with Shahd Al Shammari
Published 2023-07-01“…Shahd Al Shammari, who is a professor of English literature at the Gulf University for Science and Technology of Kuwait, has already published several works of fiction and academic works in the field of disability studies and gender studies. …”
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De la crainte de la damnation éternelle aux prémisses de l’angoisse existentielle contemporaine : inquiétudes sotériologiques et eschatologiques chez William Hale White (« Mark Rut...
Published 2006-12-01“…At the beginning of the period, it is true, a rising fear concerning man’s as well as the world’s salvation was counteracted, at least to a certain extent, by a belief in progress, particularly in the field of science. …”
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