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With essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Dark Horizons focuses on the development of critical dystopia in science fiction at the end of the twentieth century. In these narratives of places more terrible than even the reality produced by the neo-conservative backlash of the 1980s and the neoliberal hegemony of the 1990s, utopian horizons stubbornly anticipate a different and more just world. The top-notch team of contributors explores this development in a variety of ways: by looking at questions of form, politics, the politics of form, and the form of politics. In a broader context, the essays connect their textual and theoretical analyses with historical developments such as September 11th, the rise and downturn of the global economy, and the growth of anti-capitalist movements.
English literature --- Fiction --- Thematology --- Literary semiotics --- Film --- Science fiction, American --- Science fiction, English --- Science fiction films --- Utopias in literature. --- Science-fiction américaine --- Science-fiction anglaise --- Films de science-fiction --- Utopies dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- 791.43 --- 82-311.9 --- 82-313.2 --- 820-31 --- Filmkunst. Films. Cinema --- Science fiction --- Utopische roman --- Engelse literatuur: novel; roman --- Utopias --- 820-31 Engelse literatuur: novel; roman --- 82-313.2 Utopische roman --- 82-311.9 Science fiction --- 791.43 Filmkunst. Films. Cinema --- Science-fiction américaine --- Utopies dans la littérature --- Utopias in literature --- Ideal states --- States, Ideal --- Utopian literature --- Political science --- Socialism --- Voyages, Imaginary --- Dystopias --- History and criticism
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Utopias --- Political science --- Social structure
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Although published in 1986, Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1970's. Reading works by Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Samuel R. Delany as indicative texts in the intertext of utopian science fiction, Tom Moylan originated the concept of the «critical utopia» as both a periodizing and conceptual tool for capturing the creative and critical capabilities of the utopian imagination and utopian agency. This Ralahine Classics edition includes the original text along with a new essay by Moylan (on Aldous Huxley's Island) and a...
Science fiction, American --- Utopias in literature. --- American fiction --- History and criticism. --- Russ, Joanna, --- Le Guin, Ursula K., --- Piercy, Marge, --- Delany, Samuel R., --- USA.
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Zone Theory develops an approach to the study of utopia that expands its definition and its application in the field of science fiction studies.
Alexander --- Alexander Popov --- Antonis --- Baccolini --- Balasopoulos --- dystopian studies --- ecocriticism --- Fiction --- Fischer --- Joachim --- Kelly --- Mason --- Michael --- Moylan --- Phillip --- Popov --- posthumanism --- Raffaella --- Ralahine Utopian Studies --- Science --- Science Fiction and Utopia in the Space of Possible Worlds --- science fictional studies --- Space --- Theory --- Tony --- Utopia --- Utopian studies --- Wegner --- Worlds --- Zone --- Zone Theory
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Assesses the rise of the 'New' Humanities alongside the traditional disciplines and inter-disciplinary 'studies' areasTakes an original approach in its European scope and institutional representationFocusses on the 'New' or 'Post' HumanitiesIncorporates an exceptional degree of inter and trans-disciplinarity, covering areas including the intercultural humanities, post- and decolonial perspectives, digital humanities, medical humanities, environmental humanities and moreDraws from many European languages and traditionsCombines theoretical speculation with policy-making pragmatismThis is the first collection that highlights the strengths and contributions of the Humanities in the European region. The volume stresses the positive and multidimensional impact of the Humanities on core areas of human experience, and their ability to formulate new frames to represent our collective and individual relation to the world. Further, it explores new ethical social imaginaries, gendered scenarios and spaces of decolonial transculturality. This collection also confronts the threats the Humanities face today and proposes ways to respond. These threats include public discourses that question the value of the Humanities; the chronic underfunding of teaching and research at our universities and institutions, and the more fundamental risks to intellectual freedom, democracy and critical discourse, diversity, and the radical imagination posed by political and market forces and organisations. Overall, this volume proposes innovative tools to increase our collective awareness of forms of injustice, exclusion and the suffering of both the human and the non-human inhabitants of this planet. It discusses the posthuman future of the Humanities and makes recommendations for the implementation of innovative approaches to the Humanities.
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