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Joe Hoffman replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis may sound weird, but the only SF work I can think of in which a map drives the action is Starman Jones. Maps are a much bigger deal in fantasy.
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Dana Gavin replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoOne of the notes I made as I was thinking about your original query is the ethics of map-making (of imaginary worlds as well as “real” ones). It sounds like both Tally and Harvey might be helpful with that? I’m thinking about my own biases as I try to make up my own maps, assumptions, that sort of thing. Have you run into any of those issues in…[Read more]
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James Gifford started the topic CFP: Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory (Due: 3 Jul 2018) in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoHobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory”
Special feature in The New Americanist
In association with the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw“A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism.” The Communist Manifesto (1850)
A frightful hobgoblin stalks through genre ficti…[Read more]
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Sophie A. Lewis deposited Enjoy It While It Lasts: From Sterility Apocalypses to Non-Nihilistic Non-Reproduction in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoIn this essay, I discuss salient themes of The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). I hold that The Child To Come’s main thrust is this: ‘The issue is not that there is no future but rather that there is no sure way of orienting toward that future, either to save it or to survive it’. The chall…[Read more]
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Kirsten Ashley Bussière replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThank you for your helpful response! I actually have not looked at the article or book that you mentioned. My previous research took me to Robert J. Tally’s comments on Cognitive Mapping, in <i>Utopia in the Age of Globalization </i>David Harvey’s Spaces of Hope both of which are less about maps per-se but rather a discussion of the geop…[Read more]
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Dana Gavin replied to the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoI am so interested in this topic — thank you for introducing it!
You are probably well familiar with this online article, but I found it really helpful to get myself situated: https://bookriot.com/2015/09/02/making-maps-books-two-cartographers-tell-us-done/
I find the idea of the back-and-forth between the map-makers and the authors really…[Read more]
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Kirsten Ashley Bussière started the topic Maps and Speculative Fiction – Research Recommendations in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoI am currently working on a project that involves digitally mapping contemporary post-apocalyptic spaces from Speculative Fiction. I was wondering if anyone knows of any useful articles or books on the tradition of maps in Speculative and Science Fictions. Any recommendations welcome! Thank you!
I would also love to discuss this further if anyone…[Read more]
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Catherine Winters started the topic Revolt! Student Protests from 1968 to Today, A Symposium in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoFebruary 1968: three African American men are shot and killed at South Carolina State University during a protest against racial segregation. March 1968: Warsaw University students protest the banning of a performance of the play Dziady by Adam Mickiewicz.
May 1968: tens of thousands of students and workers take to the streets in France,…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Subversion of Nostalgia as a Strategy of Engagement in Alternate History TV: 11.22.63 and The Man in the High Castle in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoBeginning with television’s popularization and mass availability in the 1950s, TV has extensively been employed to transport and mediate history. From the early televisual experiments of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek to more recent examples such as Quantum Leap, The X-Files and Continuum, Science Fiction television and its subgenre of A…[Read more]
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Marissa K. López replied to the topic ANNC: 2018 Futures of American Studies Institute (June 18 – 24) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoWondering why 2013 was the last year (at least as far as I’ve been able to tell, apologies if I’m mistaken) there were Latinx studies faculty at the institute. Are we not part of the future too?
A 2016 conference at Princeton on “The Contemporary” similarly included no Latinx studies scholars.
Though I am primarily a scholar of 19th century…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson started the topic ANNC: 2018 Futures of American Studies Institute (June 18 – 24) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe 2018 Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~futures
http://www.facebook.com/futures.of.american.studiesMONDAY JUNE 18, 2018 – SUNDAY JUNE 24, 2018.
DIRECTOR: Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)
CO-DIRECTORS: Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth College), Soyica Diggs Colbert (Georgetown University),…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Obsolescence and Innovation in the Age of the Digital in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe relationship between obsolescence and innovation in the digital age is a peculiar one, conveying not past and future but instead demonstrating their eternal simultaneity.
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David E. Roy, Ph.D. deposited Can Whitehead’s Philosophy Provide an Adequate Theoretical Foundation for Today’s Neuroscience? in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis article shows the high degree of correlation between the ways in which the right and the left hemispheres process and organize information and Whitehead’s understanding of the two pure and direct modes of perception, causal efficacy and presentational immediacy. The neuroscience is drawn from the recent work of Iain McGilchrist and Robert…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Geologies of Finitude: The Deep Time of Twenty-First-Century Catastrophe in Don DeLillo’s Point Omegaand Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe twenty-first century has seen a transformation of twentieth-century narrative and historical discourse. On the one hand, the Cold War national fantasy of mutually assured destruction has multiplied, producing a diverse array of apocalyptic visions. On the other, there has been an increasing sobriety about human finitude, especially considered…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Vernacular Soliloquy, Theatrical Gesture, and Embodied Consciousness in The Marrow of Tradition in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoCharles Chesnutt’s Marrow of Tradition (1901) is overwhelmingly understood as an historical novel. Critics have again and again focused on its journalistic historicity; its ambivalent racial politics; its attitudes towards assimilation, separatism, vengeance, and resistance; and Chesnutt’s alleged biographical identification with various cha…[Read more]
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David E. Roy, Ph.D. posted an update in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoWhen I returned to reading science fiction (after a 30+ year gap, age 20 to 50-something), one of the authors that I fell in love with was Ursula K. Le Guin. More recently, I came across Vandana Singh who writes in imaginative and unpredictable ways. She shared in her eulogy for Ursula that the old master had sought her out and provided mentoring.…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Fulbright Lecturership in Italian American Studies in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please see the attached opportunity for those who work in Italian American
Studies. This is a wonderful opportunity for scholars of any rank. For more
information, see the link below or write directly to Margherita Ganeri.A new Fulbright Lectureship in Italian American Culture and Literature has
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Kathryn Laity started the topic Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in the discussion
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoAre other folks writing about this book and its adaptation? I have a new essay out on its use of tarot (at Mythlore), but I’ve also been writing about its medievalism. Just curious: there’s been a fantastic Wiki on the book but it’s being shut down this summer.
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Javier Arturo Velásquez Ruiz deposited La literatura gótica no es el antagonista en la historia de los valores ilustrados in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe gothic literature is not necessarily the antagonist in the history of the Enlightenment values.
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Ben Carver posted an update in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoAn essay on evolutionary theory and speculative fiction in nineteenth-century culture, now published by the excellent folk at urbanomic.
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