Das Bild eines Berufs 1957 befragten Magaret Mead und Rhoda Metraux mehr als 35.000 amerikanische Highschool-Schüler nach ihren Vorstellungen zu den Naturwissenschaften in Bezug auf den Beruf des Wissenschaftlers als spätere Karriereoption für sich selbst oder ihren späteren Partner.[1] Dabei kam Erschreckendes über das Bild des Wissenschaftlers zu Tage: „as a career choice … […]
A new partnership of nations has begun, and we stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. (…) Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective – a new world order – can emerge: A new era – freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice and more secure in the […]
Dying Light, the latest release of Polish developer Techland, is a zombie game that allows player to experience how they might behave when faced with a global crisis. Innovatively reimagining the zombie game, Dying Light opens up nuanced option for ideological interpretation
Einleitung: Splice Es gibt eigentlich so gut wie kein Review des Films Splice (CDN/FR/US 2009, dt. Splice – Das Genexperiment), in dem nicht auf die Bezüge zu Frankenstein (1816) verwiesen wird, und sei es nur, um die Erwartungen des Rezipienten zu lenken und den Film so deutlich im Horrorsegment zu positionieren. Vincenzo Natali, Regisseur und […]
Latham, Rob, Hg. The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2014. „[T]he world has grown into sf“ (1), schreibt Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr. und verweist damit auf eine veränderte Haltung gegenüber der Science Fiction (SF), die nicht vom Genre selbst ausgeht, sondern von der sich radikal wandelnden Welt selbst.
Since their inception, video games as media have been closely entwined with the genre of science fiction, not only recognizable in the thematic proximity of early games such as Spacewar! (1962) but also in the technological development of the medium itself. The success of the first-person shooter (or better the subjective perspective used in action […]
[486] Westfahl, Gary. William Gibson. Modern Masters of Science Fiction. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2013. 210 pp. Paperback. ISBN 978-0-252-07937-5. $23.00.
Vincent Terrace. Internet Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Television Series, 1998-2013. Jefferson: McFarland, 2014. Paperback, 284 pages, $39,95. ISBN 978-0-7864-7993-1 „A historicist criticism cannot be compared to a literary critical criticism, not because one is better than the other, but because they are apples and oranges“ (89) writes Farah Mendelsohn in a piece about the […]
Wolfenstein: The New Order. Dev. MachineGames. Pub. Bethesda Softworks. Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, Xbox One. „It is hard to say what ranks lower on the artistic food chain than video games. Comic books? TV sit-coms? X-rated films? These ratlike vermin at the bottom scurry to avoid the thunderous footfalls of the towering […]
Oryx and Crake is a near-future dystopian novel with strong satiric undertones that revolves around the innovations of gene splicing and their consequences. The novel follows Snowman, the survivor of a global and apocalyptic gene plague, in his every day struggle for survival and in his caretaking of a new race of bioengineered posthumans called […]