Let's Go to the Moon: Science Fiction in the North Korean Children's Magazine Adong Munhak, 1956–1965

2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dafna Zur
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
The North ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Bear Witness ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Way

Science fiction narratives appeared in the North Korean children's magazine Adong munhak between 1956 and 1965, and they bear witness to the significant Soviet influence in this formative period of the DPRK. Moving beyond questions of authenticity and imitation, however, this article locates the science fiction narrative within North Korean discourses on children's literature preoccupied with the role of fiction as both a reflection of the real and a projection of the imminent, utopian future. Through a close reading of science fiction narratives from this period, this article underscores the way in which science, technology, and the environment are implicated in North Korean political discourses of development, and points to the way in which these works resolve the inherent tension between the desirable and seemingly contradictory qualities of the ideal scientist—obedient servant of the collective and indefatigable questioner—to establish the child-scientist as the new protagonist of the DPRK.

scholarly journals Worn Shoes: Identity, Memory and Footwear

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Hockey ◽  
Rachel Dilley ◽  
Victoria Robinson ◽  
Alexandra Sherlock
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Personal Transformation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The North ◽  
The Way

This article raises questions about the role of footwear within contemporary processes of identity formation and presents ongoing research into perceptions, experiences and memories of shoes among men and women in the North of England. In a series of linked theoretical discussions it argues that a focus on women, fashion and shoe consumption as a feature of a modern, western ‘project of the self’ obscures a more revealing line of inquiry where footwear can be used to explore the way men and women live out their identities as fluid, embodied processes. In a bid to deepen theoretical understanding of such processes, it takes account of historical and contemporary representations of shoes as a symbolically efficacious vehicle for personal transformation, asking how the idea and experience of transformation informs everyday and life course experiences of transition, as individuals put on and take off particular pairs of shoes. In so doing, the article addresses the methodological and analytic challenges of accessing experience that is both fluid and embodied.

“How Nice That I Could Love Someone”: Science Fiction Film as a Virtual Laboratory

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederieke Y. Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Virtual Laboratory ◽  
Virtual Laboratories ◽  
Meaningful Relationship ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
The Way

While we already know that clearly utopian or dystopian depictions of human-machine relationships in science fiction film can be effective rhetorical models that shape our ideas of HRI, this paper argues that sci-fi films, like Marjorie Prime (2017) and Be Right Back (2013), can also function as more neutral virtual laboratories that allow viewers to actively explore the pros and cons of those relationships in more detail. This paper specifically explores both Marjorie Prime and Be Right Back for the way they evoke questions or ideas about what it means to be human, what it means to interact with AI, and what a meaningful relationship between these two can bring. By following a neoformalist analysis, I will show how these cases continuously present us with devices that force us to reassess the role of robots in our lives. They do this by using deceptive, reflective, and confrontational strategies within characters, cinematography, narrative structure and setting.

scholarly journals Role of research psychology in defence and security

2018 ◽  
Vol 165 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-115
Author(s):  
Fiona Butcher
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Real World ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
The Way

The following article provides an overview of the research psychology capabilities within MOD's Defence Science Technology Laboratory (Dstl). An explanation is provided of the role of Dstl psychologists and the way they work to deliver impacting applied scientific research to address 'real world' defence and security challenges. Three short case studies are provided to illustrate the range of work they delivered.

Fictional Directions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Slusser
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
New World ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Character Type ◽  
Single Character ◽  
Brave New World

This chapter considers how Gregory Benford became a scientist-writer by focusing on the two directions that his subsequent fiction will take. As a writer, Benford came up through the science fiction pathway. The goal from the outset was to write serious fiction about the new world that science offered to mankind, and to present, in fictional works, the role of scientists in shaping and understanding that brave new world. Benford published his first novel in 1970, to be followed by a formative period of intense creative activity from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. This chapter examines how the interweaving of fictional directions in Benford's career as a scientist-writer find their common focus in the defining of a single character type—the scientist, or person of scientific vision, at work doing science. To this end, the chapter analyzes two “bookend” novels: Deeper than the Darkness (1970) and Against Infinity (1983).

Is Blood Thicker than Water? Farm Servants and the Family in Nineteenth-Century North Devon

2013 ◽  
pp. 10-26
Author(s):  
Caroline Verney ◽  
Janet Few
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Community Cohesion ◽  
Core Theme ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
The North ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Way

This paper describes a small part of wider research into family and community in the nineteenth century undertaken by the late Caroline Verney. Her study of the north Devon parishes of Bittadon, Braunton, Georgeham, Marwood, Mortehoe and West Down centred on the way in which Victorian farming communities functioned, with investigations into kinship stemming from that core theme. At the same time, Janet Few was researching the role of kinship and its impact on community cohesion in three other areas of north Devon: Bulkworthy, Bucks Mills and Hatherleigh. Few's work on the farming parish of Bulkworthy is particularly relevant and has been used to complement Verney's findings for Mortehoe, which form the focus of this article. Together they have been used to investigate the employment of farm servants and the basis upon which they might have been chosen.

scholarly journals Navigating by the North Star: The Role of the ‘Ideal’ in John Stuart Mill's View of ‘Utopian’ Schemes and the Possibilities of Social Transformation

Utilitas ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Individual Property ◽  
Social Reforms ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Property Relations ◽  
The North ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractThe role of the ‘ideal’ in political philosophy is currently much discussed. These debates cast useful light on Mill's self-designation as ‘under the general designation of Socialist’. Considering Mill's assessment of potential property-relations on the grounds of their desirability, feasibility and ‘accessibility’ (disambiguated as ‘immediate-availability’, ‘eventual-availability’ and ‘conceivable-availability’) shows us not only how desirable and feasible he thought ‘utopian’ socialist schemes were, but which options we should implement. This, coupled with Mill's belief that a socialist ideal should guide social reforms (as the North Star guides mariners), reveals much more clearly the extent of his socialist commitments (even if he thought political economists would be concerned with forms of individual property for some time to come). Moreover, this framework for assessments of ‘ideal’ institutions makes a useful contribution to an ongoing contemporary debate.

Political metaphor in Covid-19 media coverage

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (Extra-D) ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
Olga N. Prokhorova ◽  
Igor V. Chekulai ◽  
Olga I. Agafonova ◽  
Elena V. Pupynina ◽  
Oksana V. Markelova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
The Way

The article is meant to look at the COVID-19 coverage in political discourse in the frames of the metaphor based approach. The authors aimed at examining the role of language and metaphor in the way we speak and understand as particular metaphorical concepts appear to be key mechanisms of shaping the reality in these times. The results introduced in the article show that currently predominating types of metaphors such as military or war metaphors, animal and catastrophe metaphors. The above metaphors are studied in political discourses on the gross scale. 

Rites of the God-King

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Geslani
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Account ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Hindu Tradition ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Lives ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Way

Most accounts of Hinduism posit a radical difference between the aniconic fire sacrifice (yajña) and temple-based image worship (pūjā). The historical distinction between ancient Vedism and medieval Hinduism is often premised on this basic ritual opposition. Through an exacting study of ritual manuals, Rites of the God-King offers an alternative account of the formation of mainstream Hindu ritual through the history of śānti, or “appeasement,” a form of aspersion or bathing, developed in order to counteract inauspicious omens. This ritual, which originated at the nexus of the fourth and somewhat marginal Veda (Atharvaveda) and the emergent tradition of astronomy-astrology (Jyotiḥśāstra), would come to have far-reaching consequences on the ideal ritual life of the king in early medieval Brahmanical society—and on the ideal ritual life of images. The mantric substitutions involved in this history helped to produce a politicized ritual culture that could encompass both traditional Vedic and newer Hindu practices and performers. From astrological appeasement to gifting, coronation, and image worship, the author chronicles the multiple lives and afterlives of a single ritual mode, disclosing the always inventive work of priesthood to imagine and enrich royal power. Along the way, he reveals the surprising role of astrologers in Hindu history, elaborates concepts of sin and misfortune, and forges new connections between medieval texts and modern practice. Detailing forms of ritual that were dispersed widely across Asia, he concludes with a reflection on the nature of orthopraxy, ritual change, and the problem of presence in the Hindu tradition.

The Battles of God and King Richard

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Staunton
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Way

This chapter looks at the representation of King Richard in war, particularly in the Holy Land and on the way there. English historians’ accounts of King Richard’s wars have usually been examined for the information they provide of military engagements, or for how they illustrate his image as the ideal knight-king. Here the emphasis is instead on the role of the divine. References to God’s role in battle are so obvious in medieval histories that they may easily be ignored, but, as shown here, there is much complexity in the presentation of such a role by these twelfth-century historians of Angevin England.

What was Nikon guilty of, or the Role of modern narratives of Raskol in the maintaining the Old Believers’ identity

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 12-20
Author(s):  
Natalia S. Dushakova
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
Group Boundaries ◽  
Old Believers ◽  
The North ◽  
Historical Past ◽  
North Western ◽  
The Way

Based on oral narratives of the Raskol (schism) recorded among the Old Believers of the North-Western Black Sea Region in 2008–2017, the article analyses inner versions of the topical historical past and the way they influence the delineation of group boundaries «from within» the communities. Narratives about Patriarch Nikon are viewed as mythological historical narratives. They are characterized by the non-linearity of time, inclusion of significant motives (distortion / betrayal of faith, persecution of the Old Believers) and indications of ethno-confessional features Old Believers themselves find significant.

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