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The Utopian Potential of Biopunk

The relation of science fiction and the utopian tradition has been a point of some contention among critics of either field—Darko Suvin, for example, famously argued that “utopia is not a genre but the sociopolitical subgenre of science fiction” (61). And Peter Fitting refutes Suvin’s simplistic conflation, instead arguing “that there is not a necessary connection between utopia and science fiction” (149) as suggested by the subgenre attribution, while nonetheless sf brings to the utopian imagination specific qualities, such as “its ability to reflect or express our hopes and fears about the future, and more specifically to link those hopes and fears to science and technology” (138).

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100 Greatest Video Game Franchises: Fallout

Fallout: Post-Apocalypse for the Atomic Golden Age

From its inception, the Fallout series has been entrenched in feelings of nostalgia for an era long gone, or one might argue, for an era once imagined to come. In effect, Fallout is a case of „retrofuturism,“ a cultural form that „highlights nostalgia, irony, and time-bending dislocation … engaging the relationship between the future and the past.“[1] 

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100 Greatest Video Game Franchises: Deus Ex

Deus Ex: Cyberpunk and the Choice of a Transhuman Future

With the rapid changes in computer technology, popular discourses reflect an anxiety about the future and the role of humans in the world. Cyberpunk—a mode of science fiction highlighting information technologies and degrees of social disorder—in some ways captures these anxieties.

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Cyberpunk and Dystopia: William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)

1. Background

1.1 Terminologies and Definitions

As with any literary genre, a clear-cut definition of cyberpunk is hard to find. Among scholars of science fiction (sf), many differentiate between a historical group of writers who met at the beginning of the 1980s, were originally known as ‘the Movement,’ and consisted of William Gibson (*1948), Bruce Sterling (*1954), John Shirley (*1953), Rudy Rucker (*1946) and Lewis Shiner (*1950), and a sub-genre of science fiction that emerged at that time with that group but soon expanded beyond it.

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Von Diversität, Intersektionalität und Repräsentation: Politische Dimensionen der Fantastik

Vortrag auf dem PAN Branchentreffen in Köln, gehalten am 19.04.2018 als Impuls zur Diversität in der Fantastik vor einer Paneldiskussion zum Thema „Rassismus – Sexismus – Homophobie – welche Verantwortung hat die Phantastik?“ — Angesichts der Twitterdiskussionen im Nachgang und der notwendigen Auseinandersetzung habe ich mich – entgegen meiner normalen Praxis – dazu entschlossen den Entwurf meines Vortrags hier einzustellen.

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Sean McQueen: Deleuze and Baudrillard: From Cyberpunk to Biopunk

Mit seinem Buch Deleuze and Baudrillard zeichnet Sean McQueen Bewegungen kritischer Positionen nach, wie sie in den letzten Jahrzehnten die intellektuelle Auseinandersetzung mit zeitgenössischer Kultur bestimmt haben. Seine Arbeit fokussiert dabei eine Entwicklung, die am besten anhand der sie eingrenzenden Pole beschrieben ist – er selbst formuliert sie als ein „cognitive mapping of the transition from late capitalism to biocapitalism“ (S.1).

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Lorenzo Servitje and Sherryl Vint, eds. The Walking Med: Zombies and the Medical Image

As a scholar of zombie fiction, one tends to get hung up on one’s specific method of dealing with the shambling dead – prefer a gun, a baseball bat or rather a sword? Academically speaking that means that once you look at the hordes of undead roaming in popular culture with an eye for consumerism, you find anti-capitalist notions everywhere.

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Mediensysteme

Veranstalter  Lars Schmeink 
Thema  Mediensysteme
Art der Veranstaltung  Seminar 
Zeit des Seminars  Block
Raum  KMM 1
Beginn  WiSe 2017

 

Seminarbaustein „Medien“ im Fernstudium Master Kultur- und Medienmanagement am KMM Hamburg, Wintersemester 2017Weiterlesen

Medien und Gesellschaft

Veranstalter  Lars Schmeink 
Thema  Medien und Gesellschaft
Art der Veranstaltung  Seminar 
Zeit des Seminars  Do 14-18 Uhr
Raum  KMM 1
Beginn  WiSe 2017

 

Seminarbaustein „Medien“ im Masterstudium Kultur- und Medienmanagement am KMM Hamburg, Wintersemester 2017Weiterlesen

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