Learning from the little engines that couldn't: Transported by Gernsback, Wells, and Latour
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Bruno Latour's coinage of scientification, which is used to describe his book Aramis or the Love of Technology (1993), is used to find out the similarities to and differences from the scientification proposed by Hugo Gernsback and developed by John H. Campbell, Jr. H.G. Wells's short story 'A Tale of the Twentieth Century' (1887) is used to identify key weakness, such as the absence of any concept of social power in Latour's work.
Publication Name: Science Fiction Studies
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0091-7729
Year: 2006
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Bruno Latour's scientification: Networks, assemblages, and tangled objects
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The works of controversial historian and philosopher of science and technology, Bruno Latour, are discussed. His theories of hybrid objects, analyses of networks that criss-cross normally discrete categories of science, politics, and culture, and displacement of the modern/postmodern paradigm offer productive new readings of science fiction and permits critics to rethink the genre's relation to science and society.
Publication Name: Science Fiction Studies
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0091-7729
Year: 2006
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Becoming other: Animals, kinship and Butler's Clay's Ark
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Octavia Butler's Clay's Ark is explored as it articulates a parallel between the category of animity and failure to recognize other humans as kin. A different kind of subject described in Butler's novel recognizes the boundaries of kinship usually disavowed by human culture, transforming not only what it means to be a subject but also an individualEs conception of ethics.
Publication Name: Science Fiction Studies
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0091-7729
Year: 2005
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