scholarly journals Liquid Surfaces

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 62-73
Author(s):  
Alexandra Brown ◽  
Kirsty Volz
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Liquid Surface ◽  
Horror Films ◽  
Apartment Building ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Minor Architecture ◽  
Psychic State ◽  
Liquid Surfaces

  Exploring the interactions between liquid surfaces and their relationship to the figure of the fille fatale in dark genres of film and television, this paper suggests that the liquid surface not only disrupts our understanding of architecture as a static structural envelope, but also acts to destabilise the image of the innocent girl in science fiction and horror films and television. The discussion focuses on three relatively recent depictions of young girls who confront (or are forced to confront) the liquid surface: Mitsuko’s submersion in the water vessels of an apartment building in Dark Water (2002), Ofelia and the muddy interior of the tree in Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), and the watery floor of Eleven’s psychic state in Stranger Things (2016). Working with Jill Stoner’s understanding of minor architectures and their ability to deterritorialise both physical structures and structures of power, the paper asks to what extent the liquid surface encounters of Ofelia, Mitsuko and Eleven exist as reflections of each character’s experiences, or as currents of agency through which the fille fatale reshapes her world. In doing so the research considers the ways in which fictional liquid surfaces operate as a visual minor architecture that elicits a questioning of social and physical norms.

Excavating the Future

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn Malley
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Cultural Study ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Adaptive Responses ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The U.S

Well-known in popular culture for tomb-raiding and mummy-wrangling, the archaeologist is also a rich though often unacknowledged figure for constructing ‘strange new worlds’ from ‘strange old worlds’ in science fiction. But more than a well-spring for scenarios, SF’s archaeological imaginary is also a hermeneutic tool for excavating the ideological motivations of digging up the past buried in the future. A cultural study of an array of popular though critically neglected North American SF film and television texts–spanning the gamut of telefilms, pseudo-documentaries, teen serial drama and Hollywood blockbusters–Excavating the Future treats archaeology as a trope for exploring the popular archaeological imagination and the uses to which it is being put by the U.S. state and its adversaries. By treating SF texts as documents of archaeological experience circulating within and between scientific and popular culture communities and media, Excavating the Future develops critical strategies for analyzing SF film and television’s critical and adaptive responses to contemporary geopolitical concerns about the war on terror, homeland security, the invasion and reconstruction of Iraq, and the ongoing fight against ISIS.

Who “Screens” Security?

Biometrics ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 1419-1438
Author(s):  
Vincent Casaregola
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
The State ◽  
Horror Films ◽  
The Political ◽  
Crime Film ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
A Performance

Films represent our awareness of surveillance and often trigger a deep emotional response from audiences, and for whole genres of film—particularly the political thriller and science fiction/speculative dystopia, along with horror films and some forms of the mystery or crime film—have been built around an individual or group of individuals who are being kept under some form of surveillance, either by the authorities of the state and by other individuals or groups who may have criminal and/or even psychotic motives. For filmmakers and their intended audiences, the surveillance narrative doubles back onto to very art form itself, composed as it is of the camera's surveillance of the action, along with the viewers' attentive watching of the film. While such audience attention had also been fundamental to drama for thousands of years, it has only been more recently that audiences began observing the fourth wall conventions of silence and darkness that make their watching of a performance a kind of surveillance.

Solid surface vs. liquid surface: nanoarchitectonics, molecular machines, and DNA origami

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (35) ◽  
pp. 23658-23676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsuhiko Ariga ◽  
Taizo Mori ◽  
Waka Nakanishi ◽  
Jonathan P. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Solid Surface ◽  
Liquid Surface ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Molecular Machines ◽  
Dna Origami ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Liquid Surfaces

Comparisons of science and technology between these solid and liquid surfaces would be a good navigation for current-to-future developments.

Spontaneous Liquid-Liquid Slug Flow in Microchannels

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph E. Hernandez ◽  
Jeffrey S. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Slug Flow ◽  
Liquid Surface ◽  
The Self ◽  
Viscous Resistance ◽  
Liquid Slug ◽  
Interfacial Tensions ◽  
Liquid Surfaces

Spontaneous liquid-liquid slug (bislug) flow in microchannels has been observed for both circular and square cross sections. Flow is induced via an imbalance in interfacial tensions and curvatures between the two gas-liquid surfaces and the liquid-liquid surface. Bislug flow in square cross-section microchannels is generally much quicker than bislug flow in circular capillaries for a variety of reasons; including the self-wetting nature of the microchannel and the decrease in viscous resistance in the corners.

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