Journal articles: '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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Koh, Jee Leong. "The Speculative Fiction Writer." Manoa 31, no. 2 (2019): 85–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/man.2019.0124.

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Fawcett, Christina. "Speculative Fiction and Faith." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 7, no. 2 (2015): 194–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jeu.2015.0016.

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Thibault, Mattia. "Speculative Semiotics." Linguistic Frontiers 5, no. 3 (December 1, 2022): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/lf-2022-0012.

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Abstract This paper introduces the notion of speculative semiotics as a scientific project within the larger umb- rella of speculative studies. The paper first provides a brief account of the projects of “nuclear semiotics” that investigated how to communicate across long periods of time. These efforts are then connected to the traditions of speculative design and design fiction, whose roots can be traced back to situationism and to Italian radical design. The synergy between semiotics and speculation is articulated around four main dimensions: communication with the future, communicating in the future, semiotics as a tool for speculation and speculation as an object of semiotics. To solidify its proposal, the paper presents a small semiotic speculation related to machine learning and image generation and an overview of the papers presented in this special issue. The conclusions reiterate the potential of this approach and outline a simple roadmap for the development of speculative semiotics.

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Malykh, Viacheslav Sergeyevich. "HYBRID SPECULATIVE FICTION AS A GENRE PHENOMENON IN MODERN LITERATURE OF THE U.S. AND RUSSIA." Russian Journal of Multilingualism and Education 14 (December 28, 2022): 79–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2500-0748-2022-14-79-85.

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The article is devoted to theoretical exploration of modern hybrid speculative fiction. This term comprises a huge body of creative works which are written at the intersection of genres related to speculative prose. On the one hand, hybrid speculative fiction is rooted in post-modern epoch, on the other hand, it returns to the principles of hybrid genre genesis, which flourished at the beginning of the 20th century. The tendency to genre eclecticism is a common feature of a great number of modern creative works and seems to be an efficient way out of conceptual crisis emerged in speculative fiction at the close of the 20th century, that is why the future development of speculative fiction is expected to be closely connected with the expansion of hybrid genre forms. The overall goal of the article is to scientifically comprehend hybrid genres in modern speculative fiction of the United States and Russia. The investigation of hybrid speculative fiction as a genre and cultural phenomenon leads to setting three goals. Firstly, it is necessary to determine genre taxonomy of such genres of traditional speculative fiction as science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Secondly, it is necessary to investigate genre-forming models, which underlie modern hybrid works. Thirdly, it is important to understand common features of the works of hybrid speculative fiction. The study of the genre interaction in modern speculative fiction is based on the descriptive and functional methods. The comparison of Russian and American works involves the use of comparative, typological and cultural-historical methods. Using the genre blocks common for both literary criticism, readers’ expectations and publishing practice, it is possible to identify such genre-forming models of hybrid speculative fiction, as: science fiction+fantasy; science fiction+horror; fantasy+historical novel; fantasy+postmodernist novel. It is also possible to sum up such common features of the works of hybrid speculative fiction, as: irrational world outlook; distortion of the very structural basis of traditional science fiction; shift of sociocultural model of world outlook; polyphonic principle of narration and potentially an endless unravelling of the plot without a pronounced climax; postclassical narrative model; the complexity of storyline. To conclude, modern hybrid speculative fiction can be treated as a separate literary and sociocultural phenomenon in the literature of the U.S. and Russia. It destroys inner canons of traditional science fiction, it is deeply influenced by post-modern cultural paradigm, and could be described as a significant cultural movement, which is aligned with demands and values of modern society.

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Hurley, Jessica. "Empire, Infrastructural Violence, and the Speculative Turn." College Literature 50, no. 2-3 (March 2023): 383–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lit.2023.a902223.

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Abstract: This essay analyzes the function of speculative fiction in the ecosystem of literary attempts to understand the imbrication of infrastructure with racial and colonial violence. While the task of making infrastructural violence apprehensible may seem more suited to realism (the literary mode designed to make legible "what is"), I trace a largely unrecognized strand in Johan Galtung's original theorization of structural violence to argue for the importance of "what is not": the potential realizations of human flourishing that are foreclosed by empire's infrastructural violence—potential realizations that can only be grasped through an act of speculation. I make this argument through a reading of Toni Cade Bambara's 1980 novel The Salt Eaters , which begins in a mostly realist mode that captures empire's violent distortions of Black and Native lives through infrastructural violence before transitioning into a more overtly speculative mode towards the end of the novel. Bambara's formal enactment of the speculative turn, I argue, evokes the potential realizations of Black and Native life that have been foreclosed by empire's infrastructural violence and entrains readers to see the world not just as it is, or as it could be, but as it might have been and might yet be. I close the essay with a discussion of the broader speculative turn in anticolonial Black women's fiction, suggesting that both the rise of speculative elements in more realist novels and the efflorescence of Black speculative fiction can be seen as deploying the affordances of speculation to capture the realities of colonial infrastructural violence in the US.

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Dutt, Sonal, and Parul Mishra. "The Speculative Memory: Contextualising Memory in Speculative Fiction." South India Journal of Social Sciences 22, no. 2 (June 30, 2024): 212–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.62656/sijss.v22i2.375.

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Colebrook, Claire. "Creative, Speculative, and World-Ending Ecologies." Public 32, no. 63 (September 1, 2021): 46–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/public_00059_7.

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This essay explores two modes of speculative fiction, one in which creativity creates relations that enable the current ecology to survive, and an alternative world-ending speculation that looks toward counter-ecologies.

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Krevel, Mojca. "On the Apocalypse that No One Noticed." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 15, no. 1 (June 25, 2018): 9–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.15.1.9-16.

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“[W]hat if they gave an apocalypse and nobody noticed?” was the question that Brooks Landon (1991, 239) proposed as the central thematic concern of the 1980s cyberpunk – a movement which today represents a landmark in the development of the science fiction genre. Diverse as they are in their focus and scope, the contributions to this issue of ELOPE, dedicated to the position and role of speculative fiction, and especially science fiction, in a world which is increasingly becoming speculative and science fictional, invariably demonstrate that an apocalypse did indeed take place and went by largely unnoticed.

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Wennerscheid, Sophie. "På sporet af en post-human virkelighed." Passage - Tidsskrift for litteratur og kritik 36, no. 85 (July 12, 2021): 99–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/pas.v36i85.127977.

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The article explores Danish literature that addresses a new understanding of the human in the more-than-human world and argues that the texts in question will be remembered as one of the most important trends in fiction of the 2010s. Since the texts, in line with new trends in philosophy going under the name of speculative realism, challenge the rationalist complacency that nothing exists beyond the phenomenal world and speculate on new forms of human-nonhuman entanglements, I propose to classify these texts as speculative fiction.

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PHILIP, KAVITA. "Speculative Histories: Photo essay." BJHS Themes 1 (2016): 239–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bjt.2016.10.

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History and Speculation, Past and Future, are not as separate as they once were in our disciplinary imaginations. Science fiction has emerged as one of many new speculative frequencies in today's scholarly spectrum. Visual representation is an older mode that brings thought and feeling, analytics and prediction together. It pre-dates both historical and fictional narrative forms. Shaped by long histories of artistic and critical conversations, images today are being used in ways that extend and complicate our interdisciplinary scholarly methods. Here, they are put to work in order to pose different questions and suggest alternative analyses of the histories and futures of Asia's changing landscapes.

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Fornoff, Carolyn. "Álvaro Menen Desleal’s Speculative Planetary Imagination." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 44, no. 1 (May 22, 2021): 43–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v44i1.5900.

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Science fiction has long held a marginalized status within the Latin American literary canon. This is due to myriad assumptions: its supposed inferior quality, sensationalist content, and disconnect from socio-historical reality. In this article, I argue for the recuperation of Salvadoran author Álvaro Menen Desleal as a foundational writer of Central American speculative fiction. I explore why Menen Desleal turns to sci-fi - abstracting his fictive worlds to far-off futures or other planets - at a moment when the writing of contemporaries of the Committed Generation was increasingly politicized and realist. I argue that Menen Desleal’s speculative planetary imagination toggles between scaling up localized concerns and evading them altogether to play with “universal” categories. By thinking with the categories of the human or the planet from an ex-centric position, Menen Desleal playfully appropriates generic convention, only to disrupt it from within.

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Ziser, Michael. "Living with Speculative Infrastructures." Boom 3, no. 4 (2013): 27–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/boom.2013.3.4.27.

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This article looks at the California origins of much of Twentieth Century science fiction. It examines how the exploding growth and development of postwar California informed science fiction writers like Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, and Philip K. Dick, and looks to their books for answers to twenty-first century dilemmas such as the uses of technology, the environment, and infrastructure.

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Lua, Shirley O. "Recreating the World in Twenty-First-Century Philippine Chinese Speculative Fiction." Prism 19, no. 2 (September 1, 2022): 491–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9966767.

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Abstract This article surveys contemporary Filipino Chinese authors' interest in speculative fiction. Many of the authors of this burgeoning movement were included in the anthology Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology (2012), edited by Charles A. Tan. These authors find speculative fiction a fruitful genre for combining Western literary techniques and material gleaned from Philippine myth and folklore.

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Yu Burnett, Joshua. ""Isn't Realist Fiction Enough?": On African Speculative Fiction." Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal 52, no. 3 (September 2019): 119–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mos.2019.0030.

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Aldama, Frederick Luis. "Introduction to Focus: Speculative Fiction." American Book Review 41, no. 1 (2019): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/abr.2019.0121.

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Gomez, Jewelle. "Speculative Fiction and Black Lesbians." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 18, no. 4 (July 1993): 948–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/494852.

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Sen, Tuhin Shuvra. "Naomi Alderman’s The Power: A Speculative Feminist Dystopian Fiction Mirroring the Here and Now." Prague Journal of English Studies 11, no. 1 (July 1, 2022): 135–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pjes-2022-0008.

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Abstract Speculative fiction, containing speculative elements based on supposition and imagination, changes the dynamics of what is real or possible as we perceive them in our current world and then surmises the likely consequences. Litterateurs have employed speculative fiction as a means of suggesting the latent possibilities and promises for our immediate reality which are not yet enacted or materialised. Accordingly, female writers of feminist speculative fiction, particularly from the 1970s onwards, have used this genre as an effective tool both to expose and to interrogate the oppressive status quo and the normative ethos of the conventional power relation between the sexes prevailing at present. In keeping with this, Naomi Alderman, in her Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction 2017 winning novel The Power, strategically flips the current power structure between the sexes on its head by investing the women, primarily adolescent girls, with the unforeseen yet inherent power of electrocuting men which ultimately results in a Cataclysm initiating a new world order ruled and dominated by empowered women some time in the future. This paper aims at exploring how Alderman, a staunch feminist, purposefully demonstrates in The Power that her novel’s fictional dystopia, though macabre and gruesome, is, in essence, a fairly accurate representation as well as a critique of the hierarchical gender relationship as it is prevalent in our present reality.

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de Oliveira, Pedro J. S. Vieira. "Design at the Earview: Decolonizing Speculative Design through Sonic Fiction." Design Issues 32, no. 2 (April 2016): 43–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00381.

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This article discusses how Sonic Fiction—a concept developed by cultural theorist Kodwo Eshun—can be regarded as a cogent mechanism with which to develop Speculative and Critical Design (SCD) projects, using subjects of sound, music, and listening as their driving force. Through a dissection of the base premises of sonic fictions, this article aims to expand the perspectives taken so far by SCD projects in order to encompass languages other than those informed by the usual theories, as well as to broaden the spectrum of possibilities for sound-based practices within the field. In doing so, it suggests sonic fiction as a decolonial epistemology for assessing design questions.

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Katz, Peter. "Speculative Capital, Speculative Reading: The Materialist Ethics of Fiction in Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend and The Pickwick Papers." Dickens Studies Annual 54, no. 2 (September 1, 2023): 121–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/dickstudannu.54.2.0121.

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ABSTRACT Dickens’s novels explicitly critique the disaggregation of economics and morality in speculative capitalism. This article argues that the novels equally condemn the logic of speculation in other forms: speculative knowledge and speculations about other people’s interiors. All these logics depend on a process of distancing from materiality to create wealth: speculation on value is far removed from gold, and a character’s interiority is far from the clothing that one might interpret to signify their feelings. And so, just as to remove morality from economic relationships dehumanizes people, to remove materiality from reading dehumanizes literature. In place of speculative logic, Dickens’s fiction magnifies surfaces. To critique speculative reading in his novels, Dickens creates characters who read texts and people metaphorically for their own social and monetary gain: literary men. Through Arthur Clennam’s speculative gaze in Little Dorrit, Silas Wegg’s disembodied leg in Our Mutual Friend, and Pickwick’s discovery of a very nice rock in The Pickwick Papers, this article argues that the critique of speculation in these texts creates a materialist ethics of reading—one that foregrounds surface over interpretation.

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Klassen, Shamika, and Casey Fiesler. "The Stoop." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 7, GROUP (December 29, 2022): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3567567.

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Inspired by previous research examining the challenges and benefits of Black Twitter (a community gathered on a platform used by Black people but not created by or for them), this design fiction presents a fictional study of a successful yet speculative social media platform named The Stoop. We envision this digital space as one that a Black woman created and a predominantly Black team designed and developed. Imagining what future online communities of marginalized people could be based on current struggles and shortcomings provides the inspiration for this design fiction. Proactively addressing content moderation, harassment, content controls, and the need for reducing appropriation while centering on the lived experiences and preferences of Black people allows this design fiction to joyfully speculate on what it can look like to get it right as a way of thinking through best practices for current technology design.

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Araújo, Naiara, and Lívia Fernanda Diniz Gomes. "FICÇÃO ESPECULATIVA: O processo de hibridização na Ficção Científica e na Fantasia." Jangada: crítica | literatura | artes 2, no. 18 (December 30, 2021): 25–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.35921/jangada.v1i18.405.

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ABSTRACT: This study aims at promoting a debate about speculative narratives, particularly those commonly classified as Science Fiction or Fantasy, assuming that the first works of speculative literature were not intended to encompass a single generic category given their dialogue with epistemological changes and their close connection with religious and mythological discourses. By close readings and bibliographic analyses, we build on the literary scholarship of Gunn (2005), Alkon (1994), Araújo (2020), and Manlove (1975), among others. The results suggest that there is no stylistic uniformity in Science Fiction or Fantasy narratives, as they directly dialogue with historical, political, and cultural moments, as well as with existing literary styles or movements. Keywords: Speculative fiction; Science Fiction; Fantasy; Hybridization

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Martinkovič, Matej. "Genre-Specific Irrealia in Translation: Can Irrealia Help Define Speculative Fiction Sub-Genres?" English Studies at NBU 8, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 73–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.22.1.5.

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Speculative fiction texts and their translation, particularly from English, have been gradually rising in prominence. However, not only do speculative fiction and its sub-genres remain only vaguely defined in general despite numerous attempts by both writers and theoreticians, but their specific features are often even less explored from the perspective of translation studies. This article aims to enrich translation studies understanding of irrealia as signature features of speculative fiction texts. It builds on existing conceptions of both irrealia and realia in order to propose the concept of genre-specific irrealia. Hence, it discusses how irrealia relate to individual sub-genres of speculative fiction and how such distinctions can help the recipient or translator realise the specificity of these elements. The paper has a particular focus on science fiction, although it also discusses fantasy and supernatural horror specific irrealia. The article then illustrates the concept of genre-specific irrealia and discusses its implications for translation on examples drawn from the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and its Slovak translation by the translator Jozef Klinga.

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Burger, Bibi. "Engaged Queerness in African Speculative Fiction." Scrutiny2 25, no. 2 (May 3, 2020): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18125441.2020.1859772.

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Cruz, Daniel Shank. "Mennonite Speculative Fiction as Political Theology." Political Theology 22, no. 3 (March 22, 2021): 211–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1462317x.2021.1905332.

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Di Filippo, Paul. "The Best Speculative Fiction of 2009." World Literature Today 84, no. 3 (2010): 42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2010.0248.

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WLT, The Editors of. "An International Speculative Fiction Reading List." World Literature Today 92, no. 3 (2018): 60–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2018.0188.

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TOPASH-CALDWELL, BLAIRE. "Sovereign Futures in Neshnabé Speculative Fiction." Borderlands 19, no. 2 (2020): 29–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.21307/borderlands-2020-009.

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The Editors of WLT. "An International Speculative Fiction Reading List." World Literature Today 92, no. 3 (2018): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.7588/worllitetoda.92.3.0060.

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CRSF Team. "CFP: Current Research in Speculative Fiction." Science Fiction Studies 39, no. 1 (2012): 170. http://dx.doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.39.1.0170.

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Harrison, Jennifer. "Why Young Adult Speculative Fiction Matters." Libri et Liberi 7, no. 1 (September 11, 2018): 172–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.21066/carcl.libri.2018-07(01).0009.

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De Smedt, Johan, and Helen De Cruz. "The Epistemic Value of Speculative Fiction." Midwest Studies In Philosophy 39, no. 1 (September 2015): 58–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/misp.12035.

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Shrutika, Shrutika. "Fluid Identities and Memories in Rivers Solomon's The Deep." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 9, no. 2 (2024): 267–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.92.40.

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In recent years, there has been a noticeable shift in the realm of speculative fantasy fiction towards incorporating contemporary issues, particularly those concerning marginalized communities. Popular speculative fiction has become increasingly interested in exploring the experiences of marginalized people and how they make their way through a world that is frequently hostile to them. Rivers Solomon, in her 2019 novella, The Deep, skilfully explores the ongoing struggle of marginalized communities to reconcile their past with their present and future. Through this exploration, this study aims to gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which postcolonialism interacts in creative narratives, particularly in speculative fantasy fiction. Set in a deep underwater society inhabited by the descendants of pregnant African women who were thrown overboard during the transatlantic slave trade, this work grapples with the lasting impact of this traumatic history on the fictional “Wajinru” community while highlighting the novel's historical context. The characters and their experiences highlight the marginalization and resistance of individuals who occupy liminal spaces, while its narrative structure disrupts dominant traditional narratives. The aim of this paper is to delve into the intricate process of identity formation within the context of generational trauma portrayed in the novella.

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Esterhammer, Angela. "Speculation in the Late-Romantic Literary Marketplace." Victoriographies 7, no. 1 (March 2017): 7–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2017.0255.

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Late-Romantic writers were explicitly engaged with the marketplace, and this involvement shows itself in the themes and genres of their work. Literature of the 1820s, in particular, responds to the distressing economic events of that decade, which experienced a cycle of rampant speculation followed by a stock-market crash in 1825–6. This article examines allegories and analyses of speculation in texts by Byron, John Galt, Walter Scott, and Willibald Alexis, together with the Poyais scandal, a notorious example of real-world financial speculation. Combining fact and fiction, these rapidly written texts are early examples of ‘speculative fiction’ that illustrate the dynamics of speculation as a self-perpetuating performance that is sustained by belief and vulnerable to contingency.

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Brzostek, Dariusz. "Fikcja antropologiczna czy antropologia spekulatywna? O funkcjach poznawczych narracji fantastycznonaukowych." Prace Kulturoznawcze 23, no. 2 (November 7, 2019): 41–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0860-6668.23.2-3.4.

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Speculative anthropology or anthropological fiction? On the referential function of science-fiction narrativesThe article focuses on the referential function of science fiction and its relations to speculative anthropology and anthropological fiction. The methodological context for this analysis consists of Andrzej Stoff’s concept of literary images in science-fiction novels, Fredric Jameson’s archaeology of the future, and Roman Jakobson’s theory of the referential function of language. The texts analyzed herein are two novels: by Stanisław Lem Solaris and Peter Watts Blindsight. These works are analyzed as procedurals — novels emphasizing sequences of scientific anthropological procedures and discussing cultural categories such as “otherness,” “race,” and “anthropocentrism.”

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Serkowska, Hanna, and Aleksandra Pławska. "Speculative-evolution fiction, quantum-actualist fiction: letture di Laura Pugno." Narrativa, no. 43 (December 1, 2021): 173–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/narrativa.440.

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Stockwell, Peter. "Schema Poetics and Speculative Cosmology." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 12, no. 3 (August 2003): 252–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09639470030123005.

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Speculative cosmology is a sub-genre of science fiction that particularly focuses on the difficulties for the deployment of existing knowledge in reading. This article assesses the usefulness of competing models of world-monitoring in order to arrive at a usable framework for discussing the particular issues in science fictional reading. It is suggested that schema theory, while containing many flaws in general, nevertheless offers an appropriate degree of delicacy for the exploration of sf. Schema poetics - the application of the theory to the literary context - is used to discuss speculative cosmology, with a focus on the work of the Australian sf writer Greg Egan. The analysis investigates the connection between stylistic form and schema operation, and proposes an explanation of `plausibility'. Specifically, sf tends to provide a readerly counterpart in the text, and thereby dramatizes schema refreshment as if it were mere schema accretion.

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Blanc, Nathalie, and Agnès Sander. "Reconfigured Temporalities Nature's Intent?" Nature and Culture 9, no. 1 (March 1, 2014): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/nc.2014.090101.

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Speculative fiction as a literary genre is a test of the renewed relation to nature presented as possible reality. The vision of nature presented by some science fiction and fantasy authors varies along these lines. The hypothesis underlying the present article is that these "speculative fiction–proposed natures" force us to rethink the rapport between time and space. Therefore, we need to examine to what extent science fiction and fantasy, focused on the preparation of an uncertain future, play on the links between time and nature and reconfigure both the agencies and the aesthetic situations that serve as experiments.

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Boswell, Jacob. "“Post-Quantal Garden” Annotated." eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics 20, no. 2 (September 10, 2021): 240–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/etropic.20.2.2021.3817.

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The Post-Quantal Garden is a work of speculative fiction based on J.G. Ballard’s short story “The Terminal Beach” first published in 1964. Set within Donna Haraway’s climate-changed Chthulucene, the work is intended as an elliptical rumination on the history of nuclear testing in the Pacific, bio-hacking, tropicality, and apocalyptic narrative. Moving between historical fact and speculative fiction, the story takes the form of a scholarly introduction to and contextualization of fictional passages from an imaginary journal supposedly found during the very real radiological clean-up of Enewetak Atoll. Enewetak, an atoll in the Marshall Islands group, was used by the US for nuclear testing and was the site of operation Ivy-Mike, the first fusion bomb test, and is the setting for Ballard’s Terminal Beach.

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Lee, Won-jean. "Two flows of speculation in the 21st century: the meeting of speculative realism and speculative fiction - Speculative collaboration between philosophy and literature for humankind facing the Reality." Literary Criticism 83 (March 31, 2022): 223–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.31313/lc.2022.03.83.223.

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Boaz, Cynthia. "How Speculative Fiction Can Teach about Gender and Power in International Politics: A Pedagogical Overview." International Studies Perspectives 21, no. 3 (October 10, 2019): 240–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekz020.

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Abstract Fictional universes can be treated as discrete units of analysis in which we see the operation of international relations theory. This article discusses insights gleaned from a course created at Sonoma State University called “Gender and Geopolitics in Science Fiction and Fantasy,” in which feminist theory and international relations approaches are integrated, and science fiction and fantasy texts serve as the mechanism through which to examine the key themes and questions. This article provides an overview of the pedagogy to highlight the usefulness of speculative fiction in teaching. Each of the fictional universes is treated as a separate system where gender and political dynamics manifest in ways that observers of international relations will recognize. The core texts are Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones, Jessica Jones, Star Trek, Misfits, and Watchmen. The major theories and approaches explored here have implications for gender studies and feminist theory, the concepts of metaphor and allegory, and game theory.

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