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Journal articles on the topic "Speculative fiction"

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Higgins and O'Connell. "Introduction: Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction." CR: The New Centennial Review 19, no. 1 (2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.19.1.0001.

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Kaye, Jofish. "L-Space and Large Language Models." Communications of the ACM 66, no. 8 (July 25, 2023): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3596900.

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From the intersection of computational science and technological speculation, with boundaries limited only by our ability to imagine what could be. Design fiction is an approach to understanding and speculating about alternate futures. One part of this can involve creating representative artifacts or prototypes from the future, as if they fell through a time warp to the present day. This column is a piece of such speculative fiction, set in 2025.

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Wanzo, Rebecca. "The Unspeakable Speculative, Spoken." American Literary History 31, no. 3 (2019): 564–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajz028.

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Abstract Exploring various absences—what is or should not be represented in addition to the unspeakable in terms of racial representations—is the through line of three recent books about race and speculative fictions. Mark C. Jerng’s Racial Worldmaking: The Power of Popular Fiction (2018) argues racial worldmaking has been at the center of speculative fictions in the US. In Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination (2017), Kristen Lillvis takes one of the primary thematic concerns of black speculative fictions—the posthuman—and rereads some of the most canonical works in the black feminist literary canon through that lens. Lillvis addresses a traditional problem in the turn to discussions of the posthuman and nonhuman, namely, what does it mean to rethink black people’s humanity when they have traditionally been categorized as nonhuman? Sami Schalk’s Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2018) speaks to the absence of a framework of disability in African American literature and cultural criticism. In addressing absence—or, perhaps silence—Schalk offers the most paradigm-shifting challenge to what is speakable and unspeakable: the problem of linking blackness with disability and how to reframe our treatment of these categories.

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Cornum, Lou. "Seizing the Alterity of Futures." History of the Present 13, no. 2 (October 1, 2023): 166–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/21599785-10630116.

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Abstract This article contextualizes growing interest in futurity and minoritarian futures as connected to movements in speculative fiction, particularly Afrofuturism and Indigenous futurism, and the ways in which this genre reimagines both history and futures. These developments are read through two groundbreaking anthologies—Dark Matter, a collection of speculative fiction from the African diaspora, and Walking the Clouds, a collection of Indigenous science fiction—and the social conditions of their publication. Using the work of Walter Benjamin and his writing against the notion of progress in history, the article posits the shared grounds for a philosophy of history that disrupts the singular future of speculation-driven capitalism with alternative forms of speculative imagination.

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Allan, Angela S. "“Our Sense of Purpose”: Speculative Fiction and Systems Reading." Novel 52, no. 3 (November 1, 2019): 406–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00295132-7738578.

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Abstract This article reads Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park (1990) and Chang-rae Lee's On Such a Full Sea (2014) as works of speculative fiction that engage with the scientific concept of “the system” that emerged during the latter half of the twentieth century. It tracks this history, showing how ecologists and engineers generated their own speculative fictions of possible dystopian futures—environmental collapse, depletion of resources, and overpopulation—through models of dynamic systems. In turn, works of speculative fiction also began to borrow these models for understanding their own relationship to the world around them. This article argues that Jurassic Park and On Such a Full Sea reject the possibility of representing reality as a way to understand what a novel is. While speculative fiction primarily has been read as a popular vehicle for political critique, this article suggests how genre fiction can also generate new forms of literary critique and systems of reading.

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YUSUPOV, Khalid U. "TRANSLATING SPECULATIVE FICTION: CREATING NEW FICTIONAL REALIA." Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, Issue №1_2023 (September 23, 2023): 107–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.55959/msu-2074-1588-19-26-1-9.

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The article explores creation of new fictional realia as a translation technique. Fictional realia are defined as a special kind of linguistic realia, also known as quasirealia or irrelia, which describes various aspects of fictional worlds: flora and fauna, everyday life, social and political structure, etc. New realia creation involves incorporation of new lexical units in a translated text, which may remain semantically connected with the original realia and its referent or eliminate the connection completely. When the new realia preserve the connection with the original lexical units and their referents, we observe the creation of a new realia-word, which may be categorized as an attempt to redesignate the original realia, rather than a direct translation. This type of realia creation is somewhat similar to modulation, but differs from it due to the impossibility to establish direct logical links, such as “part and whole”, “cause and effect”, etc. Elimination of the aforementioned connections leads to the creation of a new realia-object, the translator’s own invention, which is absent is the original text and the corresponding fictional world. Creation of a new realia-word may resemble adaptation, but it does not necessarily share the same goal. In both cases, creation of new realia is a creative process, which is heavily dependent on the translator’s personality, their own vision. Creation of new realia is demonstrated through the analysis of the translations of fictional realia from “We” by Y. Zamyatin, “Brave New World” by A. Huxley, and “1984” by G. Orwell.

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Bialecki, Jon. "Future-Day Saints: Abrahamic Astronomy, Anthropological Futures, and Speculative Religion." Religions 11, no. 11 (November 17, 2020): 612. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11110612.

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In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there is an intense interest in creating “speculative fiction”, including speculative fiction about outer space. This article ties this interest to a broader tradition of “speculative religion” by discussing the Mormon Transhumanist Association. An interest in outer space is linked to nineteenth and twentieth-century speculation by Mormon intellectuals and Church leaders regarding “Abrahamic Astronomy”. The article suggests that there is a Mormon view of the future as informed by a fractal or recursive past that social science in general, and anthropology in particular, could use in “thinking the future”.

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Lowentrout, Peter M. "RELIGION AND SPECULATIVE FICTION." Extrapolation 29, no. 4 (January 1988): 319–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.1988.29.4.319.

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Fawcett, Christina. "Speculative Fiction and Faith." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 7, no. 2 (December 2015): 194–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jeunesse.7.2.194.

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Glyn Morgan. "“Speculative Fiction”: Conference Report." Science Fiction Studies 38, no. 3 (2011): 567. http://dx.doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.38.3.0567.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Speculative fiction"

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Tobin, Stephen Christopher. "Visual Dystopias from Mexico’s Speculative Fiction: 1993-2008." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437528785.

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Xausa, Chiara <1991&gt. "Feminist environmental humanities: intertwining theory and speculative fiction." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2022. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/10435/1/XAUSA_CHIARA_TESI.pdf.

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This dissertation explores the entanglement between the visionary capacity of feminist theory to shape sustainable futures and the active contribution of feminist speculative fiction to the conceptual debate about the climate crisis. Over the last few years, increasing critical attention has been paid to ecofeminist perspectives on climate change, that see as a core cause of the climate crisis the patriarchal domination of nature, considered to go hand in hand with the oppression of women. What remains to be thoroughly scrutinised is the linkage between ecofeminist theories and other ethical stances capable of countering colonising epistemologies of mastery and dominion over nature. This dissertation intervenes in the debate about the master narrative of the Anthropocene, and about the one-dimensional perspective that often characterises its literary representations, from a feminist perspective that also aims at decolonising the imagination; it looks at literary texts that consider patriarchal domination of nature in its intersections with other injustices that play out within the Anthropocene, with a particular focus on race, colonialism, and capitalism. After an overview of the linkages between gender and climate change and between feminism and environmental humanities, it introduces the genre of climate fiction examining its main tropes. In an attempt to find alternatives to the mainstream narrative of the Anthropocene (namely to its gender-neutrality, colour-blindness, and anthropocentrism), it focuses on contemporary works of speculative fiction by four Anglophone women authors that particularly address the inequitable impacts of climate change experienced not only by women, but also by sexualised, racialised, and naturalised Others. These texts were chosen because of their specific engagement with the relationship between climate change, global capitalism, and a flat trust in techno-fixes on the one hand, and structural inequalities generated by patriarchy, racism, and intersecting systems of oppression on the other.

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Donner, Mathieu. "Contagion and the subject in contemporary American speculative fiction." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40336/.

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This thesis explores the relationship between the representation of contagion and those it affects offered by contemporary American speculative fiction and the ways in which this representative model has and continues to inform our understanding of real and actual pandemics. Over the past decade, the success of texts centred on such figures as the vampire, the werewolf and the zombie has triggered a return of contagion to the forefront of the American popular fictional imagination. Though this renewed fascination coincides with the emergence of new global biological threats, it also draws part of its power from a broader cultural anxiety regarding the structures of subjectivity, the relation between subject and State as well as the subject’s role within the collective deployed by our contemporary discourse of health. While critical studies on contagion have been predominantly concerned with real diseases and their narrativisation, this thesis focuses on five fictional representations—Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead, Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend and its adaptations, the American series Being Human, Octavia E. Butler’s Clay’s Ark and Charles Burns’s Black Hole—in order to explore the ways in which these texts engage with the modern medical discourse and the wider conceptualisation of subjectivity promoted by Western philosophy. By emptying the referential dimension of the diseases they mobilise, these texts provide a unique opportunity to analyse the underlying mechanisms of contagion as a cultural construction and to expose the set of assumptions (moral, political, social, etc.) upon which its production itself relies. Exposing the ways in which our cultural perception of contagion has been shaped by the limitations inherent to the traditional epistemic model dominating Western society, this thesis not only reveal the violence inherent in the structures of subjectivity surrounding the individual, it also highlights, by deconstructing the dominant model, new possible lines of flight for the contagious subject outside the normative structures of our current public health, medical, social and political discourses.

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Nuttall, Louise. "A cognitive grammar of mind style in speculative fiction." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.735548.

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Roux, Rowan. "Post-apartheid Speculative Fiction and the South African City." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33005.

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This thesis examines the role that speculative fiction plays in imagining the city spaces of the future. Considering the rapid pace of change that has marked post-apartheid South Africa as an impetus for emerging literary traditions within contemporary South African speculative fiction, the argument begins by sketching the connections between South Africa's transition to democracy and the emerging speculative texts which mark this period. Positioning speculative fiction as an umbrella term that incorporates a wide selection of generic traditions, the thesis engages with dystopian impulses, science fiction, magical realism and apocalyptic rhetoric. Through theoretical explication, close reading, and textual comparison, the argument initiates a dialogue between genre theory and urban theory as a means of (re)imagining and (re)mapping the city spaces of post-apartheid Cape Town and Johannesburg.

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Ogston, Linda C. "The clone as Gothic trope in contemporary speculative fiction." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21487.

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In February 1997, the concept of the clone, previously confined to the pages of fiction, became reality when Dolly the sheep was introduced to the world. The response to this was unprecedented, initiating a discourse on cloning that permeated a range of cultural forms, including literature, film and television. My thesis examines and evaluates this discourse through analysis of contemporary fiction, including Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (2005), Stefan Brijs's The Angel Maker (2008), Duncan Jones's Moon (2009), and BBC America's current television series Orphan Black, which first aired in 2013. Such texts are placed in their cultural and historical setting, drawing comparisons between pre- and post-Dolly texts. The thesis traces the progression of the clone from an inhuman science fiction monster, to more of a tragic "human" creature. The clone has, however, retained its fictional portrayal as "other," be that double, copy or manufactured being, and the thesis argues that the clone is a Gothic trope for our times. The roots of the cloning discourse often lie in Gothic narratives, particularly Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), which is analysed as a canonical cloning text. Each chapter focuses on a source of fascination and fear within the cloning discourse: the influence of Gothic paternity on the figure of scientist; the notion of the clone as manufactured product, victim and monster; and the ethical and social implications of cloning. There is a dearth of critical analysis on the contemporary literary clone, with the most comprehensive study to date neither acknowledging the alignment of cloning and the Gothic nor demonstrating the impact of Dolly on fictional portrayals. My thesis addresses this, interweaving fiction, science and culture to present a monster which simultaneously embodies difference and sameness: a new monster for the twenty-first century.

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Brockbank, Brennan Reed. "From the dino's perspective: speculative fiction in the science classroom." Montana State University, 2011. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2011/brockbank/BrockbankB0811.pdf.

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This research project sought to address a concern that middle school students do not read enough to develop scientific literacy. Science fiction is used to enhance the scientific literacy of seventh grade students at White Hill Middle School in Fairfax, California. These students read the speculative fiction novel, Raptor Red, by Bob Bakker, a paleontologist. The novel was woven into existing life science curriculum and was used to highlight both aspects of literature and of science. The self-reported interest in science and in reading was measured and compared before and after the treatment. Students took a Science Interest Survey and the Adolescent Motivation to Read Profile.

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Steenkamp, Elzette Lorna. "Identity, belonging and ecological crisis in South African speculative fiction." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002262.

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This study examines a range of South African speculative novels which situate their narratives in futuristic or ‘alternative’ milieus, exploring how these narratives not only address identity formation in a deeply divided and rapidly changing society, but also the ways in which human beings place themselves in relation to Nature and form notions of ‘ecological’ belonging. It offers close readings of these speculative narratives in order to investigate the ways in which they evince concerns which are rooted in the natural, social and political landscapes which inform them. Specific attention is paid to the texts’ treatment of the intertwined issues of identity, belonging and ecological crisis. This dissertation draws on the fields of Ecocriticism, Postcolonial Studies and Science Fiction Studies, and assumes a culturally specific approach to primary texts while investigating possible cross-cultural commonalities between Afrikaans and English speculative narratives, as well as the cross-fertilisation of global SF/speculative features. It is suggested that South African speculative fiction presents a socio-historically situated, rhizomatic approach to ecology – one that is attuned to the tension between humanistic- and ecological concerns.

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Voisin, Jocelyne Carleton University Dissertation Journalism and Communication. "Making dreams come true; feminist speculative fiction and cultural politics." Ottawa, 1996.

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Bahng, Aimee Soogene. "Speculative acts the cultural labors of science, fiction, and empire /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3369154.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 15, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-223).

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Books on the topic "Speculative fiction"

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Francis, Alfar Dean, ed. Philippine speculative fiction. Pasig City, Philippines: Kestrel IMC, 2006.

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Thomas, P. L., ed. Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-380-5.

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Hinton, KaaVonia, and Karen Michele Chandler. Teaching Black Speculative Fiction. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003391296.

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Hennessey, John L., ed. History and Speculative Fiction. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42235-5.

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Vint, Sherryl, and Sümeyra Buran, eds. Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96192-3.

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Gardner, James Alan. Shadow album: Speculative fiction stories. New York: Eos, 2005.

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Labudova, Katarina. Food in Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19168-8.

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(Editor), Paula Johanson, and Jean-Louis Trudel (Editor), eds. Tesseracts 7: New Canadian Speculative Fiction. Edmonton, Alberta Canada: Tesseract Books, 1998.

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Doctorow, Cory. Tesseracts eleven: Amazing Canadian speculative fiction. Calgary: Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Pub., 2007.

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Rely, Len. Y: Speculative Fiction. Infinity Publishing, 2003.

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Book chapters on the topic "Speculative fiction"

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Ward, David. "Speculative Fiction." In Contemporary Italian Narrative and 1970s Terrorism, 195–205. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46648-4_5.

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Patell, Cyrus R. K. "Speculative Fiction." In Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination, 87–110. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137107770_5.

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Noletto, Israel A. C. "A speculative function." In Fictional Languages in Science Fiction Literature, 29–53. New York: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032688947-2.

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Svec, Michael, and Mike Winiski. "SF and Speculative Novels." In Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction, 35–57. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-380-5_3.

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Eades, Gwilym Lucas. "A speculative spectrum." In Spatialities of Speculative Fiction, 73–89. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003198529-3.

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Cotsaftis, Olivier. "Contemporary Urban Heterotopias: From Fiction to Reality." In Speculative Geographies, 51–67. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0691-6_3.

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AbstractThe year is now 2021 and more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. But while some are privileged enough to turn a blind eye to the realities of our contemporary world, over a billion are currently living in urban poverty, suffering the consequences of poor housing quality and lack of safe and readily accessible goods and services. Needless to say, all of us are also at the mercy of our unsustainable ways of life. Amidst the dysphoria, however, we must remind ourselves that cities always have been places of cultural and social innovation. From bygone settlements to Arcosanti—an experimental city built on the values of community and environmental accountability—precedents about the alternative are aplenty. What will the equitable and regenerative city of tomorrow look and feel like? How will it function? And how will it succeed? Through developing an understanding of topias and their symbiotic relationship with humanity, this chapter proposes both a vision and an approach towards designing cities suited to twenty-first-century narratives.

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Vint, Sherryl. "Posthumanism and Speculative Fiction." In Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism, 225–46. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04958-3_4.

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Belk, Russell W. "Transhumanism in speculative fiction." In Transhumanisms and Biotechnologies in Consumer Society, 25–44. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003295594-2.

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Vint, Sherryl. "Posthumanism and Speculative Fiction." In Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism, 1–22. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42681-1_4-1.

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Loftsdóttir, Kristín. "Intervening in the Present Through Fictions of the Future." In History and Speculative Fiction, 247–63. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42235-5_13.

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AbstractThis chapter focuses on how diverse speculative fiction has intervened in discourses of the so-called refugee crisis by posing key questions regarding social justice and categorization of being human and thus who is entitled to certain rights. Some recent fiction can be positioned as examples of concurrences where the goal is to intervene in the present by talking about the future, while other older speculative fiction’s concerns with large questions of what it means to be human can be used in the present to critically think about treatment of refugees and their dehumanization. The android has in this regard been particularly useful to “think with.” The discussion is based on the author’s research on racism and irregular migrants from West Africa to Europe.

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Conference papers on the topic "Speculative fiction"

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Darby, Andy, Emmanuel Tsekleves, and Pete Sawyer. "Speculative Requirements: Design Fiction and RE." In 2018 IEEE 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/re.2018.00-20.

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Xu, Wanyu, Maulik C. Kotecha, Diego Padilla, Juliette Jimenez, and Daniel A. McAdams. "Quantifying the Predictive Abilities of Speculative Fiction: A Feasibility Study." In ASME 2021 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2021-68723.

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Abstract In this article, we explore the capability of speculative fiction to predict future realized technologies. We review a large set of speculative technologies introduced in speculative fiction to determine if the technologies were subsequently realized. Additionally, we explore the time between the speculated introduction and actual realization. Our dataset for analysis is built from the ‘Technovelgy’ database of speculative technologies. A realization assessment methodology is created that includes detailed rubrics to rate and quantify the predictability or realizability of speculative technologies. Three independent raters perform realization assessments for each entry. An inter-rater agreement analysis is carried out to validate the rating method. Based on the dataset of 3095 speculated technologies, 45% are labeled as ‘realized’ by at least one rater. A moderate overall agreement with a Fleiss’ Kappa of 0.57 is reached by all raters. The average time to realization of realized technologies is approximately 45 years with a standard deviation of approximately 34 years. We observe patterns in the realization of speculative technologies and analyze the underlying reasons preventing the technologies from realization. We conclude that speculative fiction predicts future technologies to such a degree that the introduction of speculative technology can be used as an input to designer decision-making.

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Iantorno, Mathew, and Camille Intson. "Lifecycle: A Speculative Fiction on Healthcare Automation." In 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). IEEE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/hri53351.2022.9889497.

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Clemente, Violeta, and Fátima Pombo. "From Utopia to Dystopia: Students Insights for the Development of Contemporary Societies through Design Fiction." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001421.

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This work describes an educational experience exploring the speculative essence of Design Fiction as a pedagogical tool to promote engineering students’ thinking skills within a Design Thinking course. The experience took place at a Portuguese University during the academic year 2021/2022. Students were challenged to speculate about the future of contemporary societies by developing a Design Fiction Scenario around the themes of Sustainability, Future and Technology. After describing the approach adopted and overall data about the intervention, some selected students ideas are presented. Then, students’ written essays content is analyzed regarding their awareness, concerns and hopes about the future of contemporary societies. Results show that while some of the teams followed the direction of utopia, envisioning desirable scenarios to the future, other teams adopted a less optimistic view and designed scenarios where contemporary societies and technology would lead to extreme situations or even chaos, a few of them even raising strong ethical issues. In some cases, it seems rather evident that students deliberately proceeded with these pessimistic scenarios intentionally trying to provoke reactions and stimulate debate among their peers. In other cases students appear to not be aware of those possible dangerous outcomes. Finally we discuss the value and limitations of our approach and conclude by suggesting some guidelines to apply in future interventions aiming to the role of Design as discipline in creating utopian and dystopian fictions regarding scenarios of future development.

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Toliver, Stephanie. "Can I Get a Witness? Speculative Fiction as Testimony and Counterstory." In 2021 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/1691050.

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Lindley, Joseph, Paul Coulton, and Haider Ali Akmal. "Turning Philosophy with a Speculative Lathe: object-oriented ontology, carpentry, and design fiction." In Design Research Society Conference 2018. Design Research Society, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.21606/drs.2018.327.

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Kaur, Jasmine, Rishabh Devgon, and Dhairya Chaudhary. "Work of Fiction: Using Speculative Design to Deliberate on the Future of Hiring." In CSCW '22: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3500868.3559442.

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Schiele, Alexandre. "THE NORMAL AND THE EXCEPTIONAL: A COMPARISON OF PU SONGLING’S AND MO YAN’S SURREAL WORLDS." In 9th International Conference ISSUES OF FAR EASTERN LITERATURES. St. Petersburg State University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288062049.10.

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From a comparison of the surreal worlds of Pu Songling and Mo Yan in their respective auctorial context, this paper argues that although Pu Songling’s short stories integrate surreal elements, contrary to the accepted typology of genres, they fall into realistic and not speculative fiction because the worldview of Imperial China in which he lived not only accepted the supernatural as real, but as foundational to the traditional order. By comparison, Mo Yan’s supernatural stories partly fall within supernatural literature, because post-1949 China espoused a scientific worldview which banishes the supernatural. On a second level, however, both Pu Songling’s and Mo Yan’s surreal fictions are political satires of their times. Yet, even on this point they diverge. While Pu Songling articulates the social and political criticism of his present to surreal elements, Mo Yan casts the surreal as a stand-in for the exceptional situations of his recent past which are the object of his criticisms.

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Tomin, Brittany. "Pedagogical Explorations of Alternative Paths: Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling in Pursuit of "Truth"." In 2023 AERA Annual Meeting. Washington DC: AERA, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/2014120.

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Ojeda-Ramirez, Santiago, R. Mishael Sedas, and Kylie Peppler. "Community Cultural Wealth in Latinofuturism: Leveraging Speculative Fiction for STEM + Arts Asset-Based Pedagogies." In 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2023. International Society of the Learning Sciences, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.22318/icls2023.650521.

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