How science shapes science fiction. [DVD]

The great courses. Science. History & philosophy of science

Great courses (DVD)

Science and fiction! the wayfarers series -- Cheating the science: protector -- Prediction: from the Earth to the moon -- World-building in the Left hand of darkness -- Advanced world-building in Avatar -- Action and reaction in The Avengers -- Space travel and 2001: A space odyssey -- Interplanetary travel and The Martian -- Space battles and energy weapons: Star wars -- Advanced rocket systems in Star trek -- Relativity and time for the Stars -- Black holes, wormholes, and Interstellar -- Time travel and Doctor Who -- Teleportation and Star trek -- Cyberspace and the singularity: Neuromancer -- Steampunk science and Leviathan -- Design your own dragon: Game of thrones -- Planetary ecology in Dune -- Extraterrestrial intelligence and Contact -- UFOs, ESP, and X-files -- Social sciences and the Foundation series -- Designed languages and Arrival -- Cosmology, the mind, and Star maker -- Science fiction's purpose: Childhood's end.

NERD, new experimental research in design : positions and perspectives

New experimental research in design

Board of International Research in Design, BIRD

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- On Design, Research and Pudding: An Essayistic Introduction / Some Additional Remarks on Rigour and/or Relevance in Design Research / Situating Design in the Confluence of Playfulness, Ageing, and Social Transformation / Means of Digital Images / Freedom to Make: Radical Mundanity and its Anarchic Undertones in Female Making Practice / Following the Elephant-Nosed Fish: Making Things More Complicated as a Form of Resistance / The Epistemic Potential of Architectural Design: Investigating the Complex Problem of Urban Sustainability Through Spatial Practice / Co.Making - Design Participation in Transformation? An Experimental-Programmatic Research / Don't Take out the Trash: Research Through Conceptual Designs in Design Education / Exceptional Futures vs. Exceptions to the Future: A Pataphysical Approach to Design Fiction / Utopia and Uchronia: A New Experimental Approach in Thinking about Time / Performative Dynamics in Designerly Economics / Cultural Stereotypes in Letter Forms in Public Space / Authors

Intersections : fantasy and science fiction

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Toward a theory of interaction / Discriminations: Boiling roses: thoughts on science fantasy / Parallel universe: fantasy or science fiction? / High tech and high sorcery: some discriminations between science fiction and fantasy / Science fiction and the semiotics of realism / Filling the niche: fantasy and science fiction in contemporary horror / Fantasy and science fiction: a writer's view / Gestations: The gestation of genres: literature, fiction, romance, science fiction, fantasy ... / Konstantin Tsiolovsky: science fiction and philosophy in the history of Soviet space exploration / Victorian urban Gothic: the first modern fantastic literature / Jewels of wonder, instruments of delight: science fiction, fantasy, and science fantasy as vision-inducing works / The tooth that gnaws: reflections on time travel / Frames in search of a genre / Fields: The And in fantasy and science fiction / Homecomings: fantasy and horror / Science fantasy and myth / Gravity's rainbow: science fiction, fantasy, and mythology / Science fiction: going around in generic circles

Cold waters : tangible and symbolic seascapes of the North

Springer Polar Sciences

Springer Polar sciences.

The Problem of Plastic in the Arctic / Rivers through the Prism of Oil Spills: Native Voices from the Russian Arctic / Baltic Seals and Changing Marine Frontiers in the Twentieth Century / Conceptualizing Arctic Documentary: Combining Scientific Authority and the Interests of Broadcasters in BBC's Frozen Planet / The Voice of Ice in the Turku Archipelago: Narrating Icegraphy with Environmental Ethnography / The "International" in Water-Society Relations: A Case Study of an Arctic Urban Watershed / Living by the River: Means, Meanings and Sense of Place / Emerging Trends in Arctic North America's Maritime Security Agenda: From Ice to Water / Between Pomor Traditions and Arctic Modernities: The Northern Sea in Early Soviet Pomor Literature / Water, Oil and Spirits: Liquid Maps of the Taiga in Eremei Aipin's Novel Khanty, or the Star of the Dawn / The Ambiguity of the Arctic Littoral: Changing Perspectives of Chukchi Communities in Two Russian Films / "The Silvery Song of Water": Nature, Experience, and Time in Paul Harding's Fiction / Speculative Water: Atopic Space and Oceanic Agency in Julie Bertagna's Raging Earth Trilogy

Futurescapes : space in utopian and science fiction discourses

Spatial practices,

Spatial practices ;

Introduction : the overlaid spaces of utopia / Constructing borders, defining limits : the ideal space of utopia revisited. The translation of paradise : Thomas More's Utopia and the poetics of cultural exchange / Utopia, nation-building, and the dissolution of the nation-state around 1900 / Discoveries of the future : Herbert G. Wells and the eugenic utopia / Persistence of obedience : theological space and ritual conversion in George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four / Homely spaces, intimate borders : utopias to live in. 'And is not every manor a little common wealth?' : nostalgia, utopia and the country house / The watchdogs of Eden : Chesterton and Buchan look at the present of the future / The land that time forgot : fictions of Antarctic temporality / "The tower of babble"? : the role and function of fictive languages in utopian and dystopian fiction / Worlds beyond worlds : the limits of geographical and perceptual space. Rethinking deterritorialization : utopian and apocalyptic space in recent American fiction / Space construction as cultural practice : reading William Gibson's Neuromancer with respect to postmodern concepts of space / Peripheral cosmopolitans : Caribbeanness as transnational utopia? / "Utopian and cynical elements" : Chaplin, cinema, and Weimar critical theory

Mindscapes, the geographies of imagined worlds

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Introduction: The concept of mindscape / Nature : laws and surprises / The survival of myth in science fiction / "The swelling act" : the psychoanalytic geography of fantasy / Metaphorical drive, or, Why we're such good liars / The playing fields of Eden / Bookscapes : science fiction in the library of Babel / Belief and other worlds : Ktesias and the founding of "Indian wonders" / Universal mindscape : the Gaia hypothesis in science fiction / Recent feminist utopias : world building and strategies for social change / Time and vast eternities : landscapes of immortality in Orson Scott Card's fiction / Avenues of power : cities as mindscapes of politics / The two landscapes of J.G. Ballard's Concrete Island / Neuroscience fiction : the Roman à synaptic cleft / Islands in the sky : space stations in the universe of science fiction / What really happened on Mulberry Street? / Infinity in your back pocket : pocket universes and adjacent worlds / Landscape and the Romantic dilemma : myth and metaphor in science-fiction narrative / "The adjutant" : suggestions for maps in time and space from Greene to Johnson to Lem / The ultimate mindscape : Dante's Paradiso / Pascal's terror / The revolutionary mindscape / Suggestions for a typology of mindscapes

Battlefields of negotiation : control, agency, and ownership in World of Warcraft

MediaMatters

MediaMatters.

The Definition Game -- Games without end? -- Tracing the MMORPG genre's roots -- The Many Faces of Play -- The movement of play -- Ludic vs. representational role-playing -- Problematizing social play -- The Contracts of Play -- Social codes, norms, and boundaries -- Playing on a licence -- Play and/as Participation -- Every player plays its part -- Participation as exploitation? -- Battlefields of Negotiation -- Controlling the Game. The Setup of Play -- Network play -- Playing machines -- Configuring play -- The Rules of Play -- Designing play -- Designing cooperation -- Facing the other -- Playing with Fiction -- Representing Azeroth -- The space of play -- Stuck in time -- Gaming the Game. It's About Time -- Paratexts as cheating tools -- From emergence to progression -- Hyperproductive demystification -- Twinking, or Playing Another Game -- The luxury of twinking -- Going for the easy kill -- A game within a game -- Playing the Interface -- Mods as social surveillance tools -- Controlling code through theorycrafting -- Exposing the inside -- Claiming the Game -- Virtual Thievery -- Play, work or crime -- The power of small print -- Part of the game? -- Performing on the Edge of Rules and Fiction -- Our story, your story -- Looking the other way -- Exploration or exploitation -- The Fragmented and the Multiple -- Community control, controlling community -- With great power comes great responsibility -- Playing identity and community -- Conclusion.

The feminine subject in children's literature

Children's literature and culture ;

Theoretical Introduction: The feminine in Children's Literature -- Lacan and the Subject -- The Speaking Subject: "other" and "Other" -- The Psycho-Dynamics of Text/Reader Relations -- Literary Transference -- The Textual Unconscious -- The feminine Fantastic -- Writing the Subject in Children's Literature: l'ecriture feminine -- Theoretical Introduction to the Chapter -- The Tricksters -- The feminine in Metafictional Mode -- Desire in Writing -- The feminine Fantastic -- The feminine Carnivalesque -- The Incest Taboo -- The Gaze -- The feminine Intertextual Space -- The Elemental feminine -- L'ecriture feminine -- The Other Side of Silence -- Language, Madness and The feminine -- Fictional Selves/Self as Fiction -- The-Name-of-The-Father -- The feminine and Abjection -- L'ecriture feminine -- Reading the Mother in Children's Literature: le parler femme -- Theoretical Introduction to the Chapter -- Pictures in the Dark -- Abjection and Return -- Women's Time -- Semiotizing the Symbolic -- Body Language -- The Tricksters and The Other Side of Silence -- Monstrous Mothers -- The Maternal feminine -- Dangerous Spaces -- Speaking the Body -- The Changeover -- The Looking Glass from the Other Side -- The feminine Imaginary and the Witch -- Discourse of le parler femme -- The feminine Postmodern Subject in Children's Literature -- Theoretical Introduction to the Chapter -- Memory -- The feminine Postmodern Landscapes -- Wolf -- Fragmented Subjectivity -- Cultural Nostalgia -- The Hyperreal.

James Baldwin

Critical insights

Critical insights.

On James Baldwin / Biography of James Baldwin / The Paris review perspective / James Baldwin in his time / Exiled in Paris: the beginnings / "This web of lust and fury": Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Baldwin's nineteenth-century white mother / Faith in verse and fiction: James Baldwin's, Phillis Wheatley's, Octavia E. Butler's, and Tananarive Due's creation of a peaceful space / James Baldwin's critical reception / Looking for Jimmy Baldwin: sex, privacy, and black nationalist fervor / The tale of two cities in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain / The treacherous body: isolation, confession, and community in James Baldwin / Subversive anti-Stalinism: race and sexuality in the early essays of James Baldwin / "Sonny's blues": James Baldwin's image of black community / The queering of memory: nostalgia and desire in Baldwin's "Going to meet the man" / On James Baldwin's Another country / James Baldwin and the "man" / The committed writer: James Baldwin as dramatist / If the street could talk: James Baldwin's search for love and understanding / Bearing the burden of the blues: If Beale Street could talk / The fire last time / The magic of James Baldwin / James Baldwin: the risks of love

American studies as transnational practice : turning toward the transpacific

Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies

Re-mapping the transnational.

Introduction: Transnational American studies and the transpacific imaginary / Part I. Transnational practices: outside/inside American studies -- How transnationalism reconfigured the field of American studies: the transnational/diaspora complex / Post-Soviet American studies / Transnationalism, planetary consciousness, and American studies / Part II. Deep maps, postracial imaginaries, diasporized networks, and other transnational literary assemblages -- Transnational Mark Twain / Racial memory and the modern borders of the nation-state / The other side of history, the other side of fiction: form and genre in Susshu Foster's Atomik Aztex / Part III. Remapping the transpacific turn: from the black Pacific and Oceanic ecopoetics to antipodean transnationalisms -- The manchurian philosopher: W.E.B. Du Bois in the Eurasian Pacific / Toward an ecopoetics of Oceania: worlding the Asia-Pacific region as space-time ecumene / Antipodean transnationalism: the empire lies athwart / Transpacific studies and the cultures of US imperialism / Part IV. Decolonizing knowledge production for the Pacific century -- Geopolitics of knowing/understanding and American studies: a decolonial argument or view from the global south / Industries of memory: the Viêt Nam War in art / ChinAmerica: global affairs and planetary consciousness / Negotiating the technological empire: cosmopolitics, colonial modernity, and early Chinese American autobiographical writing

Playing the Field : Video Games and American Studies

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Video Games and American Studies / Video Games and the American Cultural Context / The end is nigh! Bring forth the Shepard! Mass Effect, the Apocalypse, and the Puritan Imagination / The Last of the US: The Game as Cultural Geography / Mobility and Choices in Role-Playing Games / Playing the Urban Future: The Scripting of Movement and Space in Mirror's Edge (2008) / Playing on Fields: Seasonal Seriality, Tele-Realism, and the Bio-Politics of Digital Sports Games / Narrative and Play in American Studies: Ludic Textuality in the Video Game Alan Wake and the TV Series Westworld / Toward a Reconsideration of Hypermediacy: Immersion in Survival Horror Games and Eighteenth-Century Novels / Ludic Literature: Ready Player One as Didactic Fiction for the Neoliberal Subject / Strategies against Structure: Video Game Terrorism as the Ultimate American Agency Narrative / Why We Play Role-Playing Games / Narrative Glitches: Action Adventure Games and Metaleptic Convergence / Time Travelling to the American Revolution -- Why Immersive Media Need American Studies / A Shining City and the Sodom Below: Historical Guilt and Personal Agency in BioShock Infinite / The Art of BioShock Infinite: Identity, Race, and Manifest Destiny / Sounds of Tears: Mozart's Lacrimosa in Different Media / Unspoken Adventures: On Sound, Story, and Nonverbal Gameplay in Journey and Inside / Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

Baltic postcolonialism

On the boundary of two worlds ;

Introduction: Baltic postcolonialism and its critics / Is the post- in postcolonial the post- in post-Soviet?: towards a global postcolonial critique / Fusions of discourse: postcolonial/postmodern horizons in Baltic culture / A Soviet experience of our own: comprehension and the surrounding silence / Postcolonial change: power, Peru and Estonian literature / Nazi and Soviet dysphemism and euphemism in Latvian / Toward a postcolonial perspective on the Baltic States / Learning to curse in Russian: mimicry in Siberian exile / Estonia's time and monumental time / The sieve and the honeycomb: features of contemporary Lithuanian cultural time and space / Perceptions of the self and the other in Lithuanian postcolonial fiction / Viivi Luik's "The beauty of history": aestheticized violence and the postcolonial in the contemporary Estonian novel / Searching for national allegories in Lithuanian prose: Saulius Tomas Kondrotas's "The slow birth of nation" / Dalia Cidzikaitė -- Estonia and pain: Jaan Kross's "The czar's madman" / Postcolonial subjectivity in Latvia: some signs in literature / Labyrinths of meaning in Aleksandrs Pelēcis' "Siberia book" and Agate Nesaule's "Woman in Amber": a postmodern/postcolonial reading / Interstitial histories: Ene Mihkelson's "Labor of naming" / Lithuanian prose and decolonization: rediscovery of the body / Conflicted consciousness: Jaan Kaplinski and the legacy of intra-European postcolonialism in Estonia / Foot-loose and fancy-free: the postcolonial Lithuanian encounters Europe