Journal articles: 'Biotechnology – fiction'

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Hauer, B. "White Biotechnology – Science, Fiction and Reality." Chemie Ingenieur Technik 77, no. 8 (August 2005): 971. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cite.200590206.

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Thacker, Eugene. "The Science Fiction of Technoscience: The Politics of Simulation and a Challenge for New Media Art." Leonardo 34, no. 2 (April 2001): 155–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002409401750184726.

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This article sketches some of the relationships between the technosciences (primarily biotechnology and biomedicine) and science fiction. Taken as a discursive practice, science fiction constructs futurological narratives of progress as well as conditions the very techniques and research that may have taken place. The tensions and inconsistencies within the biotech industry are considered as a zone where science fiction is put to work as negotiator and mode of legitimization. However, as cultural theorists such as Fredric Jameson and Jean Baudrillard suggest, science fiction can also fulfill a critical function, highlighting the contingencies and limitations in biotech's self-fulfilling narrative of future-medicine. A consideration of the emerging category of “net.art” provides one starting point for a critical science fiction practice.

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Zou. "Biotechnology and the Socioeconomic Forms in Chinese Science Fiction." Comparative Literature Studies 57, no. 4 (2020): 611. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.57.4.0611.

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Guerra, Stephanie. "Colonizing Bodies: Corporate Power and Biotechnology in Young Adult Science Fiction." Children's Literature in Education 40, no. 4 (April 7, 2009): 275–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10583-009-9086-z.

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Priyadharshini, S. Sarayu, and S. Patchainayagi. "Impact of Artificial Intelligence, Bio Terrorism and Corporate Culture in Society: A Post-Modernist Critique on ‘Windup Girl’." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 12, no. 10 (September 30, 2022): 2048–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1210.11.

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Bio Terrorism is a form of terrorism in which biological agents such as pathogens, fungi, viruses, and toxins are deliberately unleashed onto the world in order to kill a wide range of humans. Bio punk theory investigates the ramifications that are most commonly associative to the rapid advances made in the field of biotechnology, synthetic biology, and agricultural biotechnology. Bio Punk is the futuristic derivative of cyberpunk theory, subgenre of science fiction. Paolo Bacigalupi's "Windup Girl" depicts the impact of corporate culture and how an advance in biotechnology eventually leads to bioterrorism. This article delves into the topic of Artificial Intelligence, bioterrorism, corporate culture, and its impact on people and society.

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Saund, Gurpreet S., and Kulandai Samy. "Eco-critical dystopia and anthropocentrism in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake." Scientific Temper 14, no. 03 (September 27, 2023): 741–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.58414/scientifictemper.2023.14.3.26.

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Geopolitical anxieties entangled and emerged with the anthropocene, creating a collective imaginary of critical eco-dystopia in a fictive way. The imaginings of apocalypse evade the entire human civilization with its natural habitat, deluging the corpses to be laid onto the death-stricken bed of the world. Drawings on sight provide an anthropocentrism-critical approach toward the textual interpretation in general. This research article decontextualizes critical dystopian fiction and predicts the reality of biotechnology advances in Oryx and Crake. It expands on the eco-critical dystopian world to the point that it defines its long-term viability through compelling human insights that exemplify destructive acts. For instance, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, species splicing, and genetic engineering deploy the critical dystopic vision and transform the planet into a dilapidated globe, which becomes an untowelled world

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Aliaga-Lavrijsen, Jessica. "Ectogenesis and Representations of Future Motherings in Helen Sedgwick’s The Growing Season." Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 43, no. 1 (June 28, 2021): 55–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2021-43.1.04.

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After the boom of feminist science fiction in the 1970s, many such novels have tackled the different sociocultural understandings of gender and sexual reproduction. Conventionally, patriarchal thinking tends to posit a biological explanation for gender inequality: women are supposed to be child bearers and the primary caregivers, whereas men should provide for the family through their work. However, if men could share procreation, would these views change? A recent work of fiction exploring this question from multiple perspectives is Helen Sedgwick’s The Growing Season (2017), a novel that presents a near future in which babies can be grown in artificial wombs that can be carried around. As an analysis of the novel will show, The Growing Season creatively explores the existing tensions among contemporary understandings of motherhood and feminism(s), as well as developments in reproductive biotechnology, through the different perspectives offered by the heterodiegetic third-person narration and multiple focalisation. Ultimately, the voices of the different characters in the novel convey a polyhedral vision of possible future feminist motherhood(s) where ideas of personal freedom and codependency are radically reconceptualised—a rethinking that becomes especially important nowadays, for the biotechnological elements of this fictional dystopia are already a reality.

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Goodridge, Lawrence D. "Bacteriophage biocontrol of plant pathogens: fact or fiction?" Trends in Biotechnology 22, no. 8 (August 2004): 384–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2004.05.007.

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Papadopulos-Eleopulos, E., V. F. Turner, J. M. Papadimitriou, and H. Bialy. "AIDS in Africa: distinguishing fact and fiction." World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology 11, no. 2 (March 1995): 135–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00704634.

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Wilbanks, Rebecca. "Real Vegan Cheese and the Artistic Critique of Biotechnology." Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 3 (April 2, 2017): 180. http://dx.doi.org/10.17351/ests2017.53.

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Drawing on the case study of Real Vegan Cheese (RVC), a synthetic biology project housed in a community lab or “biohackerspace,” I argue that biohacking performs an “artistic critique” of the bioeconomy. Following Boltanski and Chiapello’s use of the term, the “artistic critique” pits values of autonomy and creativity against a view of capitalist production as standardized and alienating, represented (in the case of biotechnology) by Monsanto’s monoculture GMOs. In this way, biohacking is depicted as liberating biotechnology from the constraints of corporate and academic institutions. Through the use of design fiction and a playful aesthetic, projects such as RVC demonstrate a more legitimate––with respect to the values of the artistic critique––mode of production for a new generation of biotechnology products, one that is portrayed as driven primarily by ethical and aesthetic values rather than the profit motive. This analysis highlights the role that aesthetic and affective strategies play in advancing particular sociotechnical visions, and the way that biohacking projects operate in symbiosis with incumbent institutions even as they define themselves in opposition to them. Finally, it suggests that biohacking has certain limitations when considered as a form of public engagement with science.

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Yazıcı, Niğda Nermin, and Melek Altıparmak. "Science fiction aided biotechnology instruction: effects of bioethics group discussions on achievement and attitudes." Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 2, no. 2 (2010): 4125–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.651.

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Goodwin, Barbara. "Science‐fiction utopias." Science as Culture 1, no. 2 (January 1988): 107–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505438809526202.

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Lee, Seok Hee, Hyun Ju Oh, Min Jung Kim, Geon A. Kim, Erif Maha Nugraha Setyawan, Kihae Ra, Dimas Arya Abdillah, and Byeong Chun Lee. "Dog cloning-no longer science fiction." Reproduction in Domestic Animals 53 (November 2018): 133–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rda.13358.

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Davis, Jeffry C. "Bieber Lake, Christina. Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology and the Ethics of Personhood." Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 27, no. 1 (2015): 192–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jis2015271/215.

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Boehm, R. "Molecular Farming – Facts and Fiction." Journal für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit 2, S1 (December 2007): 101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00003-007-0264-x.

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McCue, Andy. "19th-Century Baseball Fiction: A Survey." Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game 2, no. 1 (April 1, 2008): 66–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3172/bb.2.1.66.

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Trendel, Aristi. "Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology and the Ethics of Personhood by Christina Bieber Lake." American Studies 53, no. 4 (2014): 133–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ams.2014.0182.

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Bilbro, Jeffrey. "Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood by Christina Bieber Lake." Theology Today 74, no. 2 (July 2017): 197–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0040573617705794b.

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Moffat, Amber. "Breast augmentation and artificial insemination: Monstrous medicine and the female body in recent fiction." Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 11, no. 1 (December 1, 2022): 163–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ajpc_00057_1.

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Recent fiction that depicts medical intervention upon the female body as monstrous reveals societal anxiety around aesthetic and reproductive medicine. As biotechnology rapidly advances, the female body continues to be a site on which improvements, efficiencies and controls are imposed. While Kristeva’s abject and Creed’s ‘monstrous-feminine’ explain the capacity of the female body to imbue horror, this literary analysis explores how the experience of the medicalized female body can convey anxiety relating to escalating aesthetic and reproductive demands. Works of fiction by Kawakami, Mazza, Hortle, Booth, Giddings, Gildfind and Taylor are considered in terms of medicine and the female body, with the narratives revealing common themes of monstrosity. Bakhtin’s grotesque and Kristeva’s abject informs the analysis, as does Foucault’s concept of the ‘medical gaze’. Bartky’s ‘fashion-beauty complex’ frames the investigation into depictions of cosmetic surgery, while the impact of capitalism is considered in relation to reproductive technologies and medical experimentation. The power structures that medicine operates within are considered and the article argues that the representation of medicine as monstrous in relation to the female body expresses collective unease about the increasingly unstable boundaries of the human body itself.

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Beyenal, Haluk, Zbigniew Lewandowski, and Gary Harkin. "Quantifying Biofilm Structure: Facts and Fiction." Biofouling 20, no. 1 (February 2004): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0892701042000191628.

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Smith, John. "Probiotics-fact or fiction?" Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology 51, no. 4 (April 24, 2007): 539–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jctb.280510411.

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Hose, H., and T. Sozzi. "Probiotics, fact or fiction." Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology 51, no. 4 (April 24, 2007): 540–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jctb.280510412.

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Lagomarsino, Marco Cosentino, Bruno Bassetti, Gastone Castellani, and Daniel Remondini. "Functional models for large-scale gene regulation networks: realism and fiction." Molecular BioSystems 5, no. 4 (2009): 335. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b816841p.

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Driver, Jane A. "Efforts to Extend the Human Lifespan: Separating Fact from Fiction." Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica 78, no. 298 S. Esp (July 19, 2022): 547–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.14422/pen.v78.i298.y2022.015.

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After retirement, older people often find themselves far from their children and grandchildren, and many spend their last years isolated and alone. As traditional concepts of family and social institutions fragment, social networks weaken, leading to an epidemic of loneliness, and substance abuse and suicide in developed countries. In fact, life expectancy in the US has dropped for the past few years, in large part due to a dramatic increase in suicide and drug overdose (ref). None of these social problems is likely to be solved by metformin. They point to a crisis of identity and meaning, an existential crisis. In this context, one might wonder if we are already seeing the effects of tinkering with our lifespan. There are many more conclusions one could draw about the implications of longevity, many of which have been elegantly described in Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness, published by the President’s Council on Bioethics, which I used as a reference for this talk. I hope I have been successful in providing a 10,000-foot view of the questions of efforts to extend human longevity and its implications that will provoke thought and discussion. I would like to end these reflections by turning back to my favorite transhumans. The reason we love superheroes is not for their superior strength or intelligence, but their characters. They use their powers to protect and serve humanity rather than dominate or annihilate it. It is not their gadgetry that makes them great, but how they use it to save the vulnerable. Even as a small child I knew that if everyone acted the way they did, the world would be a better place. The moral of every story was that the “enhancement” humanity needed would not come as the fruit of technology, but of virtue.

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Mathias, P. M., and M. S. Benson. "Computational aspects of equations of state: Fact and fiction." AIChE Journal 32, no. 12 (December 1986): 2087–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aic.690321220.

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Lambert, Shannon. "Experimental Bodies: Animals, Science, and Collectivity in Contemporary Short-Form Fiction." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 67, no. 2 (June 30, 2022): 89–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2022.2.05.

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"In the relatively short time since its establishment as an area of research, literary animal studies has become a burgeoning field covering a significant amount of intellectual terrain: traversing, for example, thousands of years of history and an array of human-animal encounters like pet ownership and breeding, hunting, farming, and biotechnology. However, few scholars have focused their attention on “experimental animals”—that is, animals used in experiments within and beyond laboratories—and fewer still have investigated the aesthetic and ethical challenges of representing these animals (and literary animals more generally) as collectives. This article uses the polysemy of “the experimental” to think together innovative literary forms and descriptions of scientific research and experimentation. In particular, it considers some of the tensions that arise in literary experiments that feature representations of animal collectives in science. In place of an in-depth study of a single text, I draw on Natalia Cecire’s vocabulary (2019) of the “flash” to explore how Tania Hershman’s short story “Grounded: God Glows” (2017), Karen Joy Fowler’s “Us” (2013), and an excerpt from Thalia Field’s Bird Lovers, Backyard (2010) constitute an ecology of experimental texts which, when considered alongside one another, highlight patterns of animal multiplicity and movement. Foregrounding literary strategies like fragmentation, we-narrative, and synecdoche and juxtaposition, I argue that snapshots of animal collectives in Hershman, Fowler, and Field accumulate into a shimmering and hybrid multitude of bodies resistant to uncritical forms of literary anthropomorphism and impersonal scientific practices that frequently transform such bodies into readable and interpretable “data.” Keywords: laboratory animals, experimentation, flash, form, fragmentation, we-narrative, synecdoche, juxtaposition "

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Stoitsova, Stoyanka, Tsvetelina Paunova-Krasteva, Petya D. Dimitrova, and Tsvetozara Damyanova. "The concept for the antivirulence therapeutics approach as alternative to antibiotics: hope or still a fiction?" Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment 36, no. 1 (September 8, 2022): 697–705. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13102818.2022.2106887.

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Schramm, Andreas. "Lebende Stromkabel mit überraschender Arbeitsteilung." BIOspektrum 30, no. 1 (February 2024): 16–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12268-024-2077-1.

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AbstractCentimeter-long, multicellular bacteria that form electric wires as good as semiconductors? That split their energy-conserving redox reaction into two half reactions, performed in distant parts of their filamentous “body”, so some cells “eat” while other cells “breathe”? Sounds like science fiction, doesn’t it? And yet that’s what “cable bacteria” do. Here’s their story, from their surprise discovery 12 years ago to the selection of the candidate genus Electronema as Microbe of the Year 2024.

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Schellekens, Huub, Wim E. Hennink, and Vera Brinks. "The Immunogenicity of Polyethylene Glycol: Facts and Fiction." Pharmaceutical Research 30, no. 7 (May 15, 2013): 1729–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11095-013-1067-7.

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Saeed, Azhar Jalil, and Rosli Talif. "THE NEGATIVE UTILITARIAN TRANSHUMANISM: A CASE STUDY OF BERTRAND ZOBRIST IN DAN BROWN'S INFERNO." Journal of Language and Communication 9, no. 2 (September 30, 2022): 255–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.47836/jlc.9.2.07.

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At the present time, the argument about the utilization of advanced technology to sustain human lives is controversial. The employment of technology such as biotechnology, genomics, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience to redeem human beings from illness and death is called transhumanism. However, the focal point of this argument is to question the morality of transhumanism. Transhumanism and its proponents justify the various utilizations of technology that seek to ensure the advanced future of humanity. Thus, this notion corresponds to the theory of utilitarianism which legalizes the utilization of methods to guarantee the happiness of the majority. In this regard, this paper exhibits a case study from contemporary fiction to examine the transhumanist primary principle in the eyes of utilitarianism. The case study of this study is Bertrand Zobrist, a transhumanist scientist in Dan Brown’s Inferno, who seeks to utilize biotechnology to save the future of humanity. The conducted methodology of this study includes observations of a case study by extracting excerpts from the novel and applying discourse analysis. Hence, through the character of Zobrist, this study highlights the cross points between transhumanism and negative utilitarianism that prioritizes the reduction of pain in comparison to maximizing the happiness of the majority. Furthermore, the study seeks to debate the concept of negative utilitarian morality when it comes to examining the transhumanist aspect of Zobrist.

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Clare, S. "Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood / Universes without Us: Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature." American Literature 86, no. 4 (January 1, 2014): 850–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2811718.

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Crane, Lucia M. A., Marleen van Oosten, Rick G. Pleijhuis, Arash Motekallemi, Sean C. Dowdy, William A. Cliby, Ate G. J. van der Zee, and Gooitzen M. van Dam. "Intraoperative Imaging in Ovarian Cancer: Fact or Fiction?" Molecular Imaging 10, no. 4 (July 2011): 7290.2011.00004. http://dx.doi.org/10.2310/7290.2011.00004.

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Shields, Rob. "Flânerie for Cyborgs." Theory, Culture & Society 23, no. 7-8 (December 2006): 209–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276406069233.

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As a literary figure or conceit, Haraway’s cyborg is kin to Dumas’ and Balzac’s flâneur. As a social science fiction, crossing and mixing categories, the cyborg is an abject quasi-body who does not fit the Enlightenment model of the political subject and actor. The ‘Manifesto’ has a geography of sites - Home, Market, Paid Work Place, State, School, Clinic-Hospital and Church - which this article updates and to which it adds the Body and the Web. However, Haraway’s ‘cyborg-analysis’ directs attention to the nanotechnological scale of biotechnology. The spatialization implied in the ‘Manifesto’ is more like a surface, a site of regeneration, not a space of the body or of rebirth or the space of institutions such as the Market or School. The cyborg cannot be an Enlightenment political actor, but challenges the traditions, scale and space of the public sphere even as she carries ethical qualities and potentials for less normative forms of politics.

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COGGON, JOHN. "Confrontations in “Genethics”: Rationalities, Challenges, and Methodological Responses." Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 20, no. 1 (January 2011): 46–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963180110000617.

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It was only a matter of time before the portmanteau term “genethics” would be coined and a whole field within bioethics delineated. The term can be dated back at least to 1984 and the work of James Nagle, who claims credit for inventing the word, which he takes “to incorporate the various ethical implications and dilemmas generated by genetic engineering with the technologies and applications that directly or indirectly affect the human species.” In Nagle’s phrase, “Genethic issues are instances where medical genetics and biotechnology generate ethical problems that warrant societal deliberation.” The great promises and terrific threats of developments in scientific understanding of genetics, and the power to enhance, modify, or profit from the knowledge science breeds, naturally offer a huge range of issues to vex moral philosophers and social theorists. Issues as diverse as embryo selection and the quest for immortality continue to tax analysts, who offer reasons as varied as the matters that might be dubbed “genethical” for or against the morality of things that are actually possible, logically possible, and even just tenuously probable science fiction.

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Abizanda Cardona, María. "Narrating the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Transhumanism and Critical Posthumanism in Catherine Lacey's The Answers." Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, no. 26 (2022): 175–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/ren.2022.i26.10.

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: Recent scientific breakthroughs under the wing of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, particularly in the realm of biotechnology, have prompted an integral redefinition of the human, looking toward the posthuman state. Stances on this question range from the transhumanists ’ advocacy of overcoming biological limits, to the indexing of technoscientific advancement to an antihumanist and postanthropocentric project championed by critical posthumanism. These debates have been translated into speculative fiction works such as Catherine Lacey’ The Answers (2017). This novel revolves around the Girlfriend Experiment, a state -of-the-art research project aimed at taking the next step in our emotional evolution by eliminating the need for romantic relationships, bankrolled by a film industry mogul. This paper analyses the representation of human enhancement in the novel, arguing that the depiction of the material consequences of the experiment upon its research subjects amounts to a rejection of the unrestricted development of technology along transhumanist and neoliberal tenets. In this, The Answers offers a critical take on the Fourth Industrial Revolution aligned with the principles of critical posthumanism.

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Pokorny, Jan. "Antioxidants in Foods and Biology: Facts and Fiction by Edwin N. Frankel." European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology 109, no. 10 (October 2007): 1045. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejlt.200700166.

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Ludtke, Laura E. "Sleep, disruption and the ‘nightmare of total illumination’ in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century dystopian fiction." Interface Focus 10, no. 3 (April 17, 2020): 20190130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2019.0130.

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This article addresses the charge that the introduction of the electric light in the late nineteenth century increased disruptions to the human body's biological processes and interfered with the oscillating sleeping–waking cycle. By considering the nineteenth century research into the factors that motivate and disrupt sleep in concert with contemporary discussions of the physiology of street lighting, this article exposes how social and political forces shaped the impact of artificial light on sleep and, more perniciously, on bodily autonomy. As a close reading of artificial light in three influential dystopian novels building on these historical contexts demonstrates, dystopian fiction challenges the commonplace assumption that the advent of the electric light, or of widespread street lighting in public urban spaces, posed an immediate or inherent threat to sleep. Beginning with H. G. Wells's The Sleeper Awakes (1899), in which the eponymous sleeper emerges from a cataleptic trance into a future in which electric light and power are used to control the populace, representations of artificial light in early dystopian fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depict a nightmare of total illumination in which the state exerted its control over the individual. In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), constant artificial illumination plays a vital role in the chemical and behavioural conditioning undergone by individuals in a post-Fordian world. George Orwell intensifies this relationship between light and individual autonomy in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), where access to electric current (and thus light) is limited at certain times of the day, brownouts and electrical rationing occur intermittently, and total illumination is used to torture and reprogram individuals believed to have betrayed Big Brother.

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Shaw, Debbie. "In her own image: The constructed female in women's science fiction." Science as Culture 3, no. 2 (January 1992): 263–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505439209526347.

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Cox, D. Michael. "Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology and the Ethics of Personhood by ChristinaBieber Lake (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013), xi + 264 pp." Modern Theology 32, no. 1 (December 22, 2015): 139–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/moth.12233.

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Copping, Leonard G. "European MEP Majority Supports Pesticide Legislation: Industry Looks Forward to More Science and Less Fiction During Implementation." Outlooks on Pest Management 20, no. 1 (February 1, 2009): 6–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1564/20feb03.

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Helal, Nada A., Heba A. Eassa, Ahmed M. Amer, Mohamed A. Eltokhy, Ivan Edafiogho, and Mohamed I. Nounou. "Nutraceuticals’ Novel Formulations: The Good, the Bad, the Unknown and Patents Involved." Recent Patents on Drug Delivery & Formulation 13, no. 2 (August 29, 2019): 105–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1872211313666190503112040.

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: Traditional nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals hold pragmatic nature with respect to their definitions, claims, purposes and marketing strategies. Their definitions are not well established worldwide. They also have different regulatory definitions and registration regulatory processes in different parts of the world. Global prevalence of nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals is noticeably high with large market share with minimal regulation compared to traditional drugs. The global market is flooded with nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals claiming to be of natural origin and sold with a therapeutic claim by major online retail stores such as Amazon and eBay. Apart from the traditional formulations, many manufacturers and researchers use novel formulation technologies in nutraceutical and cosmeceutical formulations for different reasons and objectives. Manufacturers tend to differentiate their products with novel formulations to increase market appeal and sales. On the other hand, researchers use novel strategies to enhance nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals activity and safety. : The objective of this review is to assess the current patents and research adopting novel formulation strategies in nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals. Patents and research papers investigating nutraceutical and cosmeceutical novel formulations were surveyed for the past 15 years. Various nanosystems and advanced biotechnology systems have been introduced to improve the therapeutic efficacy, safety and market appeal of nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals, including liposomes, polymeric micelles, quantum dots, nanoparticles, and dendrimers. This review provides an overview of nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals current technologies, highlighting their pros, cons, misconceptions, regulatory definitions and market. This review also aims in separating the science from fiction in the nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals development, research and marketing.

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Duda, Katarzyna. "Wirtualna rzeczywistość świata postnowoczesnego (na przykładzie wybranych utworów współczesnej literatury rosyjskiej)." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 61, no. 4 (March 12, 2024): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.847.

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The aim of the article presented here is to define virtual reality in a post-modern world in which revolutionary technological transformations are taking place before our eyes. Thus, we are witnessing the implementation into our existence of new entities created in the first instance by the sciences including information technology, biotechnology, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology. The latter fields of knowledge have become our research object, with examples drawn from selected works of contemporary Russian literature. It turns out that transhumanism in Russia has its prehistory, for example, the cosmism of Nikolai Fyodorov, and is intensively developing in the present day, for example, the organisation, the Russian Transhumanist Movement. In terms of fiction related to the desire to transform homo sapiens into homo superior, Andrei Platonov, Yevgeny Zamiatin, Mikhail Bulgakov highlight this trend. In contemporary times, the themes of transhumanism, immortalism, cryonics, and artificial intelligence have been taken up by Tatyana Tolstaya, Olga Slavnikova, Victor Pelevin, Vladimir Sorokin, among others. On the pages of their novels, they present how utopia understood as a pipe dream is transformed into utopia – an experiment. The rapid development of civilization forces us to have moral doubts: “unfrozen” after a few hundred years, man may not adapt in a new environment. Artificial intelligence threatens to transform human beings into their replicas, cyborgs, taking over people’s jobs and threatening unemployment. This in turn contradicts the idea of eternal life, raising questions about whether replicas of humans will be endowed with consciousness and emotions, or whether humans transformed from creatures to creators will still remain human.

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Wilson, Richard. "Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood. By Christina Bieber Lake. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. Pp. xix + 243. $38.00." Religious Studies Review 40, no. 2 (June 2014): 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rsr.12126_9.

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Das, Nileswar, Abdul Faheem, and Sheikh Shoib. "The Facts and Fiction of Olanzapine-Samidorphan Fixed Dose Combination." ALPHA PSYCHIATRY 23, no. 4 (July 4, 2022): 210–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5152/alphapsychiatry.2022.22881.

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Szewczyk, Matylda. "On gods, pixies and humans: Biohacking and the genetic imaginary." Technoetic Arts 20, no. 1 (July 1, 2022): 125–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/tear_00086_1.

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The focal point of my article is the work of biohackers: mainly Josiah Zayner, whose activism as a biohacker, as an artist and a public figure offers an interesting lens through which one can explore the contemporary genetic imaginary and our changing and varied approach to genetic engineering. The framework for this description is set by an analysis of cultural representations of contemporary science and technology, both in documentaries and in works of fiction. In the article, I trace and analyse the ways in which biohackers’ activity is involved with the earlier ideas of cyberculture, most notably with the notion of biological life as information (possible to edit or ‘hack’) and to the image of a ‘hacker’. I recall the popular phrase of ‘playing god’, often quoted in relation to genetic imaginary, mainly as a warning against excessive interventions within nature. The phrase and the warning itself seem to have become insofar more important, as the scale of possible interventions had been raised by the advancement of genetic engineering. Finally, I discuss the relation of art and science in Zayner’s activity, within a broader context of relevant images of artists and scientists and their role within the changing realities of contemporary life. The article does not pretend to fully analyse or even describe the modalities and implication of biohackers’ activity. Its main goal is to shed more light on the current changes in collective imagination related to the rapid development of biotechnology and its cultural understanding. The public presence of biohackers, and especially Zayner’s activity, provides new visions of human agency in nature and of relation between art, science and social practice.

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Kozlova, Varvara V., Victoria P. Lazarenko, and Anna N. Slavinskaya. "The image of a teenager in the 18th–19th century Russian fiction." Comprehensive Child Studies 4, no. 2 (2022): 94–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.33910/2687-0223-2022-4-2-94-103.

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Prem Raja, D., and V. Vasudevan. "Communication of Autonomous Vehicles in Road Accidents for Emergency Help in Healthcare Industries." Journal of Healthcare Engineering 2022 (January 25, 2022): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/2506830.

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Autonomous cars like driverless motors are considered solely in science fiction films; however, in 2019, they are turning into a veracity and reality. People all around the world are excited to see the driverless automobile in reality. Selfless vehicles do not want human intervention. A completely driverless car is nonetheless at a superior trying out stage; however, in part due to computerized technological know-how, it has been around for the last few years. A partly computerized car has points such as lane keeping, automatic braking, and adaptive cruise control. With a self-sustaining automobile device, the vehicle has to feel the environment and discover objects, and with the assistance of GPS, it should run on the right navigation course even while obeying site visitors and transportation rules. In addition to that, the safety of passengers and pedestrians is also very important. This capability to keep away from collisions with barriers and accidents during assemble is important. To forestall the self-sufficient vehicle, this autonomous system helps a lot. The sensor used in this gadget identifies the objects in front of the car and stops the car, directing it to go on a specific course to keep away from accidents and communicate with each other. This accident-avoidance gadget and communication system help the self-sustaining car to attain the vacation spot via coaching the vehicle with synthetic intelligence. By making the motors smartest the lifestyles fashion additionally turns into smartest.

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Roh, Sunhee. "A Case Study of Extracurricular Programs for College Students: Comtemporary Diasporic Fictions on Korean Picture Brides." Korean Society of Culture and Convergence 44, no. 7 (July 31, 2022): 229–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.33645/cnc.2022.7.44.7.229.

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This study is to propose implications for the revitalization of humanities-oriented university comparison programs through a case study of the <CUK diaspora> conducted by Catholic University in the first semester of 2022. To this end, instructional design, lecture materials, and teaching methods were introduced. The student's results on contemporary diasporic fiction on Korean picture brides were analyzed. The implications of this case study were presented through the learner’s language by comparing and analyzing both assignments of students who participated in both diaspora courses. The findings presented in this paper can be used as a reference for the humanities subject program in the university linked to extracurricular programs.

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Seifert, Roland. "Buchrezension zu: Science Fictions." BIOspektrum 26, no. 7 (November 2020): 811. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12268-020-1497-9.

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Bongomin, Ocident, Gilbert Gilibrays Ocen, Eric Oyondi Nganyi, Alex Musinguzi, and Timothy Omara. "Exponential Disruptive Technologies and the Required Skills of Industry 4.0." Journal of Engineering 2020 (February 7, 2020): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/4280156.

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The 21st century has witnessed precipitous changes spanning from the way of life to the technologies that emerged. We have entered a nascent paradigm shift (industry 4.0) where science fictions have become science facts, and technology fusion is the main driver. Thus, ensuring that any advancement in technology reach and benefit all is the ideal opportunity for everyone. In this study, disruptive technologies of industry 4.0 were explored and quantified in terms of the number of their appearances in published literature. The study aimed at identifying industry 4.0 key technologies which have been ill-defined by previous researchers and to enumerate the required skills of industry 4.0. Comprehensive literature survey covering the field of engineering, production, and management was done in multidisciplinary databases: Google Scholar, Science Direct, Scopus, Sage, Taylor & Francis, and Emerald Insight. From the electronic survey, 35 disruptive technologies were quantified and 13 key technologies: Internet of Things, Big Data, 3D printing, Cloud computing, Autonomous robots, Virtual and Augmented reality, Cyber-physical system, Artificial intelligence, Smart sensors, Simulation, Nanotechnology, Drones, and Biotechnology were identified. Both technical and personal skills to be imparted into the human workforce for industry 4.0 were reported. The review identified the need to investigate the capability and the readiness of developing countries in adapting industry 4.0 in terms of the changes in the education systems and industrial manufacturing settings. This study proposes the need to address the integration of industry 4.0 concepts into the current education system.

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