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ReS Futurae est une revue francophone internationale dédiée à l’étude de la science-fiction sous toutes ses formes : littérature, cinéma, arts graphiques, jeux vidéo, musique, design et phénomènes culturels divers. C’est une revue académique, à comité de lecture et arbitrage par les pairs, fondée sur un partenariat avec la revue Science Fiction Studies : des traductions croisées d’articles acceptés dans l’une et l’autre revue seront publiées régulièrement. Dans le paysage académique francophone, ce sera la première revue de cette nature.

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Science fiction films, from the original Frankenstein and The Fly to Blade Runner and The Terminator, traditionally have been filled with aliens, spaceships, androids, cyborgs, and all sorts of robotic creatures along with their various creators. The popular appeal of these characters is undeniable, but what is the meaning of this generation of creatures? What is the relationship of mad scientist to subject, of human to android, of creature to creator? Androids, Humanoids, and Other Folklore Monsters is a profound investigation of this popular cultural form. Starting his discussion with the possible source of these creatures, anthropologist and writer Per Schelde identifies the origin of these critters in the folklore of past generations. Continuing in the tradition of ancient folklore, contends Schelde, science fiction film is a fictional account of the ongoing battle between nature and culture. With the advance of science, the trolls, dwarves, pixies, nixies, and huldres that represented the unknown natural forces of the world were virtually killed off by ever-increasing knowledge and technology. The natural forces of the past that provided a threat to humans were replaced by the danger of unknown scientific experiments and disasters, as represented by their offspring: science fiction monsters. As the development of genetics, biomedical engineering, and artificial intelligence blur the lines between human and machine in the real world, thus invading the natural landscape with the products of man's techno-culture, the representation of this development poses interesting questions. As Per Schelde shows, it becomes increasingly difficult in science fiction film to define the humans from their creations, and thus increasingly difficult to identify the monster. Unlike science fiction literature, science fiction film has until now been largely neglected as a genre worthy of study and scholarship. Androids, Humanoids, and Other Folklore Monsters explores science fiction (sf) film as the modern incarnation of folklore, emblematic of the struggle between nature and culture-but with a new twist. Schelde explains how, as science conquered the forests and mountains of the wild, the mythic creatures of these realms-trolls, elves, and ogres-were relegated to cartoons and children's stories. Technology and outer space came to represent the modern wild, and this new unknown came alive in the popular imagination with the embodiments of our fears of that unknown: androids, cyborgs, genetics, and artificial intelligence gone awry. Implicit in all of these is a fear, and an indictment, of the power of science to invade our minds and bodies, replacing the individual soul with a mechanical, machine-made one. Focusing his analysis on sixty-five popular films, from Frankenstein and Metropolis to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Terminator, and Blade Runner, Per Schelde brings his command of traditional folklore to this serious but eminently readable look at SF movies, decoding their curious and often terrifying images as expressions of modern man's angst in the face of a rapidly advancing culture he cannot control. Anyone with an interest in popular culture, folklore, film studies, or science fiction will enjoy this original and comprehensive study.

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Depuis la Renaissance et les débuts de la Modernité, le thème du futur n'a cessé de gagner en importance et en visibilité dans la civilisation occidentale, revêtant des formes et des valeurs diverses et ambivalentes. Comment cette insistance du futur de plus en plus vive au fil des XVIIIe, XIXe et XXe siècles a-t-elle affecté les philosophies, en particulier les plus récentes ? Comment la philosophie contemporaine réfléchit-elle l'insistance croissante du futur, son invasion du quotidien et de l'immédiat, son omniprésence ? Mais aussi comment des philosophes plus classiques ont-ils abordé cet aspect de la temporalité, lorsqu'ils en parlent? Les études rassemblées interrogent Saint-Augustin, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Kant, Marx, Cournot, Jünger, Bloch, Simondon, Brun, Foucault, Fukuyama, Bostrom ... Elles abordent également deux champs culturels typiques du XXe siècle que l'avenir de l'homme, de la personne individuelle à l'espèce, ne cesse d'interpeler suivant des axes, éthique et esthétique, le plus souvent mais pas nécessairement divergents: la bioéthique et la science-fiction, qui requièrent l'une et l'autre l'imagination spéculative critique des possibles futurs. Les philosophes et le futur est issu des conférences prononcées à l'occasion de l'accession à l'éméritat du Professeur Gilbert Hottois: la question du futur, en particulier du futur lointain a été, dès la décennie de 1970, un thème constant de ses recherches; elle habite l'ensemble de ses écrits.

Philosophy --- Future (Logic) --- Bioethics --- Science fiction --- Futur (Logique) --- Bioéthique --- Science-fiction --- Philosophie --- Bioéthique

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For too long, the Earth has been used to ground thought instead of bending it; such grounding leaves the planet as nothing but a stage for phenomenology, deconstruction, or other forms of anthropocentric philosophy. In far too much continental philosophy, the Earth is a cold, dead place enlivened only by human thought--either as a thing to be exploited, or as an object of nostalgia. Geophilosophy seeks instead to question the ground of thinking itself, the relation of the inorganic to the capacities and limits of thought. This book constructs an eclectic variant of geophilosophy through engagements with digging machines, nuclear waste, cyclones and volcanoes, giant worms, secret vessels, decay, subterranean cities, hell, demon souls, black suns, and xenoarcheaology, via continental theory (Nietzsche, Schelling, Deleuze, et alia) and various cultural objects such as horror films, videogames, and weird Lovecraftian fictions, with special attention to Speculative Realism and the work of Reza Negarestani. In a time where the earth as a whole is threatened by ecological collapse, On an Ungrounded Earth generates a perversely realist account of the earth as a dynamic engine materially invading and upsetting our attempts to reduce it to merely the ground beneath our feet.

Philosophy (General) --- geophilosophy --- speculative realism --- nature --- dark vitalism --- science fiction

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Terraforming is the process of making other worlds habitable for human life. Its counterpart on Earth-geoengineering- is receiving serious consideration as a way to address climate change. Contemporary environmental awareness and our understanding of climate change is influenced by science fiction, and terraforming in particular has offered scientists, philosophers, and others a motif for thinking in complex ways about our impact on planetary environments. This book asks how science fiction has imagined how we shape both our world and other planets and how stories of terraforming reflect on science, society and environmentalism. It traces the growth of the motif of terraforming in science fiction from H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (1898) to James Cameron's blockbuster Avatar (2009), in stories by such writers as Olaf Stapledon, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ernest Callenbach, Pamela Sargent, Frederick Turner and Kim Stanley Robinson. It argues for terraforming as a nexus for environmental philosophy, the pastoral, ecology, the Gaia hypothesis, and the politics of colonisation and habitation. Amidst contemporary anxieties about climate change, terraforming offers an important vantage from which to consider the ways humankind shapes and is shaped by their world.

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