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We live in a world where science and technology shape the global economy and everyday culture, where new biotechnologies are changing what we eat and how we can reproduce, and where email, mobiles and the internet have revolutionised the ways we communicate with each other and engage with the world outside us.Technoculture: The Key Concepts explores the power of scientific ideas, their impact on how we understand the natural world and how successive technological developments have influenced our attitudes to work, art, space, language and the human body. Throughout, the lively discussion of i
Technology --- Technological innovations --- Science --- Popular culture. --- Technologie --- Innovations --- Sciences --- Culture populaire --- Social aspects. --- Aspect social --- Culture de masse --- cultuurfilosofie --- globalisering --- technocultuur --- technologie --- sociologie --- Frankfurter Schule --- Debord Guy --- Baudrillard Jean --- Haraway Donna --- wetenschap --- kunsttheorie --- esthetica --- kunst en wetenschap --- 130.2 --- Popular culture --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Social aspects --- Innovations technologiques --- Culture de masse. --- Aspect social. --- Innovation
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"The World Health Organization estimates that, by 2030, six out of every ten people in the world will live in a city. But what does it mean to inhabit the city in the twenty-first century? 'Posthuman Urbanism' evaluates the relevance and usefulness of posthuman theory to understanding the urban subject and its conditions of possibility. It argues that contemporary science and technology is radically changing the way that we understand our bodies and that understanding ourselves as 'posthuman' offers new insights into urban inequalities. By analyzing the relationship between the biological sciences and cities from the nineteenth-century onward as it is expressed in architecture, popular culture and case studies of contemporary insurgent practices, a case is made for posthuman urbanism as a significant concept for changing the meaning of urban space. It answers the question of how we can change ourselves to change the way we live with others, both human and non-human, in a rapidly urbanizing world."--
Urbanization --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Community development, Urban --- City planning --- Urbanization. --- Sociology, Urban.
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Women, Science and Fiction Revisited is an analysis of selected science fiction novels and short stories written by women over the past hundred years from the point of view of their engagement with how science writes the world. Beginning with Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1918) and ending with N K Jemisin's The City We Became (2020), Debra Benita Shaw explores the re-imagination of gender and race that characterises women's literary crafting of new worlds. Along the way, she introduces new readings of classics like Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, examining the original novels in the context of their adaptation to new media formats in the twenty-first century. What this reveals is a consistent preoccupation with how scientific ideas can be employed to challenge existing social structures and argue for change.
Fiction --- Literature --- literatuur --- fantasie (verbeelding) --- anno 1900-1999
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Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Space --- Philosophy --- Political aspects --- Space - Philosophy --- Space - Political aspects
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Women, Science and Fiction Revisited is an analysis of selected science fiction novels and short stories written by women over the past hundred years from the point of view of their engagement with how science writes the world. Beginning with Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1918) and ending with N K Jemisin's The City We Became (2020), Debra Benita Shaw explores the re-imagination of gender and race that characterises women's literary crafting of new worlds. Along the way, she introduces new readings of classics like Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, examining the original novels in the context of their adaptation to new media formats in the twenty-first century. What this reveals is a consistent preoccupation with how scientific ideas can be employed to challenge existing social structures and argue for change.
Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Fiction. --- Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Fiction Literature. --- Adaptation Studies. --- Arts --- Inspiration --- Literature --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Novelists --- Philosophy --- English fiction --- Science fiction, English --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- English science fiction --- Literature, Modern --- 20th century.
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