Distortion

Dismantlings ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 93-111
Author(s):  
Matt Tierney
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fiction Writer ◽  
As If

This chapter talks about distortion as a form of dismantling. It describes distortion as the historical and theoretical technique by which readers learn to approach political documents as if they were science fiction. When considered as a vehicle of distortion, literature is measured for its potential to alter exploitative conditions, like those of war, patriarchy, and racism. The science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany insists that transformative change takes shape neither in utopian nor in dystopian visions of the future, but rather in efforts toward significant distortion of the present. This attitude, which is also a theory and practice of literature, is one way to describe the inheritance of cyberculture in the works of writers and activists who employed speculative language to repurpose the thought of Alice Mary Hilton and the Ad Hoc Committee. These writers and activists focused not on the machines that would unveil the myth of scarcity, but instead isolate the forms of human life and relation that would follow the act of unveiling.

scholarly journals France, Germany and Europe

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-304
Author(s):  
H. L. Wesseling
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future War ◽  
Fiction Writer

In 1999, a book appeared in Paris with the rather alarming title De la prochaine guerre avec l'Allemagne (‘On the future war with Germany’). It had not been written by some sensationalist science-fiction writer, but by none other than Philippe Delmas, a former aid to Roland Dumas, who was twice minister of Foreign Affairs under the Mitterrand administration.

scholarly journals O futuro nas mãos da Técnica: O destino do Homem e da Natureza segundo Hans Jonas/The future in the hans of technique

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Jelson Roberto Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Hans Jonas ◽  
Modern Technique ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Ontological Foundation

Pretende-se, no presente artigo, analisar as raízes ontológicas da noção de técnica, demonstrando como ela faz parte do movimento de abertura - e de liberdade, portanto - da vida humana em direção ao futuro. Para isso, analisar-se-á como a técnica toma em suas mãos o destino do homem e da natureza, sob os riscos e os perigos que acompanham essa tarefa, pois onde habita a liberdade também cresce o perigo. Dada tal condição, é preciso ainda perguntar sobre as consequências éticas da manipulação do mundo provocada pela unificação entre teoria e prática (base da técnica moderna), cuja intervenção, dada a magnitude e a ambiguidade, torna tal poder dependente de um controle ético. Mostrar-se-á, assim, como o tema da técnica está no centro de uma proposta que faz da ontologia um fundamento para a ética.   Abstract: It is my intended, in this article, analyze the ontological roots of the concept of technique, demonstrating how it is part of the opening movement - and freedom, so - of human life toward the future. For this, it will be analyzed how the technique takes into their hands the destiny of man and nature, on the risks and dangers that accompany this task, because where freedom dwells also increases the danger. With this condition, we must still ask about the ethical consequences of the manipulation of the world caused by the unification of theory and practice (basis of modern technique), whose intervention, given the magnitude and ambiguity becomes such power dependent on an ethical control. We’ll show, how the theme of the technique is in the center of a proposal that consider the ontological foundation of the ethics.Keywords: Hans Jonas; Technique; Ontology; Ethics.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 235-258
Author(s):  
Gavin Miller
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Feminist Psychology ◽  
Psychological Literature ◽  
The Future ◽  
Critical Feminist ◽  
Stanley Milgram

The conclusion firstly draws out some broader theses from the preceding chapters. It then provisionally analyses the deployment of science fiction tropes within the body of official psychological literature, whether at a popular or more scholarly level. Although science fiction may be exploited in a very simple way within psychological theory and practice as a popularizing and didactic tool, there are other, more complex and often self-conscious ways that the genre is used. Psychologists as varied as Sandra and Daryl Bem, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer, and Steven Pinker, invoke different speculative narratives of the future as a way to legitimate their particular psychological claims. Perhaps surprisingly, psychology can also make use of science fiction motifs to offer cognitive estrangement of the present, be this consciously, in critical feminist psychology, or unwittingly, as in the famed obedience experiments of Stanley Milgram.

All Today’s Parties

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Westfahl
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
William Gibson ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Fiction Writer

This chapter examines three William Gibson novels: Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History. Gibson had planned Pattern Recognition for a long time: in 1986, he declared that he would “eventually try something else,” and “in twenty years” he would probably be “writing about human relationships.” By shifting from the future to the present, Gibson clearly felt that he was relaunching his career, and hence he logically reverted to the pattern of his first novel. Known as a science fiction writer for decades, Gibson felt an obvious need to justify Pattern Recognition's present-day setting. This chapter considers a number of ways to argue that Pattern Recognition should be classified as science fiction. Spook Country asserts that we live today in a world filled with science-fictional events, but we are unable or unwilling to properly observe them. Zero History suggests that Gibson has entirely distanced himself from the world of computers, the focus of the cyberpunk literature he was once said to represent.

California: The Planet of the Future

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Stanley Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Orange County ◽  
The State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Sacramento Delta ◽  
Future Topics ◽  
Fiction Writer

Boom interviews prolific science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson about writing, California, and the future. Topics of discussion include utopian and dystopian visions of the state, the Sierra Nevada and Sacramento Delta, the Orange County of Robinson’s youth, how California’s landscape and environment have informed science fiction, terraforming, utopia, dystopia, and finding a balance between technology and environmentalism.

scholarly journals Decorative-usage arts as means of formation of professional competence of future teachers of fine arts

HUMANITARIUM ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Liudmyla Danyliuk
Keyword(s):  
Professional Competence ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Important Condition ◽  
The Future ◽  
Main Basis ◽  
High Level

In the article on the basis of analysis and generalization of literary sources, pedagogical theory and practice, the means of formation the professional competence of future teachers of fine arts are determined. The main basis component of the formation of the art culture of future teachers of fine arts is decorative- usage arts, folk art crafts are noted in it. An important condition for the professional activity of future teachers of fine arts is the formation of art culture, which includes the ability to emotionally perceive of the environment, creatively transform it, culture of work, knowledge of culture people and nations in different periods of development of society, possession of universal values, in particular, the values of creative, which provide of personality of self-realization and self-development in decorative- usage arts and fine arts. The main basis component of the formation of the art culture of future teachers of fine arts is the decorative-usage arts, folk artistic crafts, the cultural and educational mission of which consists, first of all, in the increase of a productive representation of the values of human life, represented in figurative form of art works, the development of art intuition, aesthetic taste, emotional perception of art creativity, the definition of art as a specific spiritual activity in the development of culture of a particular epoch and on this based on the achievement of a high level of their own art skills.The important condition of professional activities of the future teachers of fine arts is formation of art culture is grounded. In the research and mastery of techniques of decorative-usage art in the future a teacher of fine art form of the desire to learn and protect the Ukrainian people’s material and spiritual achievements is determined.

scholarly journals Scientific tales by Kurd Lasswitz: between literature, science and philosophy

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-167
Author(s):  
Alexander Belarev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Science And Literature ◽  
Ideal Society ◽  
Ethics And Technology ◽  
German Science ◽  
The Future ◽  
Existential Issues ◽  
Fiction Writer

The article deals with the works of German science fiction writer Kurd Lasswitz (1848–1910). The article provides a brief description of the main themes and directions of the writer’s work. Lasswitz was the creator of the scientific tale genre (das wissenschaftliche Märchen), in which he had set the task of building new relationships between science and literature, nature and man, the animate particle and the cosmic whole. In accordance with the spirit of the fin de siècle era the scientific tale represented a new, post-positivist ideal of knowledge. The key theme of Lasswitz’s fiction was the search for extraterrestrial civilizations.Mars became for Lasswitz a place where the intelligent extraterrestrial beings have realized an ideal society in which ethics and technology are NOT in conflict. Lasswitz was not a neo-Kantian philosopher only, he was also an active popularizer of Kant’s philosophy. He was striving to create a Kantian utopia in literature. For Lasswitz Mars became the realization of this utopia. Also Lasswitz sought to give literary embodiment to the ideas of another philosopher, Gustav Theodor Fechner. Following his philosophy, Lasswitz develops environmental and existential issues of the coexistence of intelligent plants with humans. In Lasswitz’ story for children “The Escaped Flower” (1910), one can trace how in Lasswitz’ science fiction (scientific tale) the themes of the habitability of space (Mars), science and technology of the future interact with the ideas of Kant and Fechner.

The Analogizing the City & Building Future by Analyzing Scene in the Science Fiction Films and the Human Action Desire

2012 ◽  
Vol 450-451 ◽  
pp. 1074-1077
Author(s):  
Kyung Il Chin
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Ideal Image ◽  
Intelligent City ◽  
The Future ◽  
Science Fiction Films ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
The City ◽  
The Ideal

We say that the future city will be an automatic system for human like a science fiction films which means the 'Ubiquitous City or Intelligent City'. Actually, so many science fiction movies contain the wish or demand of human life. Generally, they show the convenience things for human life, the ideal image of future city, the solution technology of human being, and so on. In this world, every built thing is the product of human desire. Meanwhile, the scientific scenes in the movies are also the product of human desire. The reason of the above, this study tries to analogize image of city future by analyzing scene in the science fiction films and human action desire to make the future image. Eventually, this study is going to make 'human life scenario' in the future city which consisted with mixed scientific scene in the science fiction films and sorted by human desire for forecasting the future city. This scenario may apply for forecasting the real future city.

scholarly journals Expanding the Romantic Circle

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 915-929
Author(s):  
Tena Thau
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Moral Principle ◽  
Moral Concern ◽  
Moral Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
Moral Point Of View ◽  
Fiction Writer

AbstractOur romantic lives are influenced, to a large extent, by our perceptions of physical attractiveness – and the societal beauty standards that shape them. But what if we could free our desires from this fixation on looks? Science fiction writer Ted Chiang has explored this possibility in a fascinating short story – and scientific developments might, in the future, move it beyond the realm of fiction. In this paper, I lay out the prudential case for using “attraction-expanding technology,” and then consider it from a moral point of view. Using the technology would, in one respect, be morally good: it would benefit those whom prevailing beauty standards marginalize. But attraction-expanding technology also raises a moral concern – one that can be cast in non-harm-based and harm-based terms. I argue that the non-harm-based objection should be rejected, because it is incompatible with a moral principle central to queer rights. And the harm-based objection, I argue, is outweighed by the benefits of attraction-expanding technology, and undermined by the prerogative you have over your personal romantic choices. I conclude by considering whether, from the perspective of society, the development of attraction-expanding technology would be desirable.

Penerapan Rinfo Sebagai Media Pendukung Untuk Proses Pembelajaran Pada Perguruan Tinggi Raharja

CCIT Journal ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-115
Author(s):  
Untung Rahardja ◽  
Khanna Tiara ◽  
Ray Indra Taufik Wijaya
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Integrated Learning ◽  
Civilizing Process ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Life Education ◽  
New Generation

Education is an important factor in human life. According to Ki Hajar Dewantara, education is a civilizing process that a business gives high values ??to the new generation in a society that is not only maintenance but also with a view to promote and develop the culture of the nobility toward human life. Education is a human investment that can be used now and in the future. One other important factor in supporting human life in addition to education, which is technology. In this globalization era, technology has touched every joint of human life. The combination of these two factors will be a new innovation in the world of education. The innovation has been implemented by Raharja College, namely the use of the method iLearning (Integrated Learning) in the learning process. Where such learning has been online based. ILearning method consists of TPI (Ten Pillars of IT iLearning). Rinfo is one of the ten pillars, where it became an official email used by the whole community’s in Raharja College to communicate with each other. Rinfo is Gmail, which is adapted from the Google platform with typical raharja.info as its domain. This Rinfo is a medium of communication, as well as a tool to support the learning process in Raharja College. Because in addition to integrated with TPi, this Rinfo was connected also support with other learning tools, such as Docs, Drive, Sites, and other supporting tools.

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