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Fictionalizing Science
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Author : Pritam Panda
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-05-19
Fictionalizing Science written by Pritam Panda and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-19 with categories.
Fictionalizing science: Myths for modern age is a literary genre that combines scientific concepts, theories, and principles with elements of mythology and fiction to create a unique narrative. This genre uses science as a framework to explore and examine the human experience and our place in the universe, while also incorporating fantastical or supernatural elements to add depth and intrigue to the story. The stories in this genre often take place in a world that is recognizable and familiar to us, but with the addition of speculative or fictional elements. These elements may include advanced technologies, alternate realities, or supernatural beings. The scientific concepts and theories used in these stories are often based on real-world science, but may be exaggerated or twisted for dramatic effect. The genre of fictionalizing science: Myths for modern age can include a wide range of sub-genres, including science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, and speculative fiction. It can also cover a broad range of themes, from exploring the impact of technology on society to examining the consequences of human actions on the environment. Overall, fictionalizing science: Myths for modern age is a genre that uses the power of storytelling to engage readers with science and its potential implications, while also providing a platform to explore philosophical and ethical questions about the world we live in.
Estranging Science Fictionalizing Bodies B Viral Invasions Infectious Fictions And The Biological Discourses Of The Human 1818 2005
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Author : Laura Anne Diehl
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Estranging Science Fictionalizing Bodies B Viral Invasions Infectious Fictions And The Biological Discourses Of The Human 1818 2005 written by Laura Anne Diehl and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Science fiction categories.
In 1818, Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein causes science and literature--two different discourses, two different signifying systems, two different realities--to collide. As it addresses the givenness, or "naturalness, " of "the human, " Frankenstein reimagines the putative boundary between the human and the nonhuman, a fictive border made perceptible by contemporary scientific investigation. Catalyzing a new genre, science fiction, Shelley estranges the enlightenment discourse of "reason, " revealing it as a highly regulative structure through which societies are forged and bodies governed. "Estranging Science, Fictionalizing Bodies: Viral Invasion, Infectious Fictions, and the Biological Discourses of 'the Human, ' 1818-2005," posits a mutually infective relationship between science and literature. It both exposes the logic of purification that delimits "modern" forms of knowledge as discursively distinct (science v. literature) and considers how this distinction informs the evolutionary/philosophical shifts in how we think about the possible, the human, and the novel. Since literature plays a significant role in the history of science and science a significant role in the history of literature, the dissertation uses each imaginary technology to interpret the other. In so doing, it defamiliarizes and recontextualizes not only individual texts, but entire literary histories and scientific discourses that are rarely thought of as science fiction. Finally, the dissertation argues that the question of "the human, " of what we invoke when we invoke "the human, " emerges most powerfully through an interpretive matrix of science and literature, genre and the novel. Though radically different methods of shaping those narratives that concern us all, science and literature both employ the process by which novelty enters the world and affects our experience of the self and the relatedness of bodies. The epistemological--and epidemiological--encounters the dissertation explores make possible a whole range of new entities, properties, and kinships that connect through unfamiliar evolutionary and intellectual bonds. "Human nature" emerges as neither essential nor unchanging, random nor inevitable.
Fictionalizing Anthropology
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Author : Stuart J. McLean
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2017-11-22
Fictionalizing Anthropology written by Stuart J. McLean and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-22 with Social Science categories.
What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social science? What if it were to turn instead to exploring its affinities with art and literature as a mode of engaged creative practice carried forward in a world heterogeneously composed of humans and other than humans? Stuart McLean claims that anthropology stands to learn most from art and literature not as “evidence” to support explanations based on an appeal to social context or history but as modes of engagement with the materiality of expressive media—including language—that always retain the capacity to disrupt or exceed the human projects enacted through them. At once comparative in scope and ethnographically informed, Fictionalizing Anthropology draws on an eclectic range of sources, including ancient Mesopotamian myth, Norse saga literature, Hesiod, Lucretius, Joyce, Artaud, and Lispector, as well as film, multimedia, and performance art, along with the concept of “fabulation” (the making of fictions capable of intervening in and transforming reality) developed in the writings of Bergson and Deleuze. Sharing with proponents of anthropology’s recent “ontological turn,” McLean insists that experiments with language and form are a performative means of exploring alternative possibilities of collective existence, new ways of being human and other than human, and that such experiments must therefore be indispensable to anthropology’s engagement with the contemporary world.
Science On The Air
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Author : Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-08-01
Science On The Air written by Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Mr. Wizard’s World. Bill Nye the Science Guy. NPR’s Science Friday. These popular television and radio programs broadcast science into the homes of millions of viewers and listeners. But these modern series owe much of their success to the pioneering efforts of early-twentieth-century science shows like Adventures in Science and “Our Friend the Atom.” Science on the Air is the fascinating history of the evolution of popular science in the first decades of the broadcasting era. Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette transports readers to the early days of radio, when the new medium allowed innovative and optimistic scientists the opportunity to broadcast serious and dignified presentations over the airwaves. But the exponential growth of listenership in the 1920s, from thousands to millions, and the networks’ recognition that each listener represented a potential consumer, turned science on the radio into an opportunity to entertain, not just educate. Science on the Air chronicles the efforts of science popularizers, from 1923 until the mid-1950s, as they negotiated topic, content, and tone in order to gain precious time on the air. Offering a new perspective on the collision between science’s idealistic and elitist view of public communication and the unbending economics of broadcasting, LaFollette rewrites the history of the public reception of science in the twentieth century and the role that scientists and their institutions have played in both encouraging and inhibiting popularization. By looking at the broadcasting of the past, Science on the Air raises issues of concern to all those who seek to cultivate a scientifically literate society today.
Fictionalizing Heterodoxy
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Author : Folke Gernert
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-06-17
Fictionalizing Heterodoxy written by Folke Gernert and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-17 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The information overload produced by the printing press and the new forms of the structuring of knowledge are echoed in fictional works. The essays assembled in this book study the textualization of problematic forms of knowledge in medieval and early modern Spanish literature. Literary Works like the Libro buen amor, La Lozana Andaluza, or the Guzmán de Alfarache are read against the backdrop of scientific developments of their times.
The Language Of Popular Science
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Author : Olga A. Pilkington
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2018-12-28
The Language Of Popular Science written by Olga A. Pilkington and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
If you read (or write) popular science, you might sometimes wonder: how do the authors manage to make subjects that once put you to sleep in science class both so entertaining and approachable? The use of language is key. Based on analyses of popular science bestsellers, this linguistic study shows how expert popularizers use the voices and narratives of scientists to engage readers, demonstrating the power of science and portraying researchers as champions of knowledge. By doing so they often blur the lines between nonfiction and fiction, inviting readers to take part in thought experiments and turn ordinary scientists into omnipotent heroes.
The Unresolvable Plot
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Author : Elizabeth Dipple
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-10-01
The Unresolvable Plot written by Elizabeth Dipple and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Originally published in 1988, the last few decades had seen the appearance of some brilliant and complex new kinds of fiction. The ambitious experiments of writers such as Greene, Garcia Márquez, Borges, Nabakov, Calvino, Beckett, Eco, Spark, Hoban, Murdoch, Bellow, Ozick, and Lessing among others had all proved the vitality of contemporary fiction in discovering exciting new forms and styles. Yet because of the difficulty of many of the texts, contemporary fiction as a genre had acquired an undeservedly unpopular reputation among students and other readers. In a very real way, the reader had become nervous rather than confident in the face of a literature that in fact is more aware of and generous to that reader than earlier and more apparently accessible literature ever managed to be. And the new fiction’s seeming remoteness from the reader is exaggerated, in a sense, by the critical academic response at the time, which tended to obscure the texts themselves behind the many aesthetic and cultural theories which had sprung up in the study of fictionalizing or narrativity in general. Elizabeth Dipple is anxious to dispel readers’ fears about these texts. She has chosen an international list of major writers of the time and presents a detailed discussion of each. Beginning each chapter with a brief explanation of the context in which each fictionist is to be examined, she then concentrates on an analysis of key texts, aiming always to look beyond jargon and theory back to the sources themselves. Professor Dipple’s purpose was to convey to the reader some of her own admiration and enthusiasm for contemporary fiction and to persuade him or her to take a fresh look at a group of writers who were producing what she felt would surely be seen by future generations as among the most sophisticated and accomplished fiction of our time.
The Philosophy Of Science Fiction
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Author : James Burton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Philosophy Of Science Fiction written by James Burton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Science fiction categories.
Presented Discourse In Popular Science
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Author : Olga Pilkington
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-07-03
Presented Discourse In Popular Science written by Olga Pilkington and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In Presented Discourse in Popular Science, Olga A. Pilkington explores the forms and functions of the voices of scientists in books written for non-professionals. This analysis is an acknowledgement of the social consequences of popularization.
The Public Image Of Chemistry
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Author : Joachim Schummer
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2007
The Public Image Of Chemistry written by Joachim Schummer and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Science categories.
Stem cells have the ability to differentiate into cells that are found throughout the body. This fundamental property of stem cells suggests that they can potentially be used to replace degenerative cells within the body, and regenerate the functional capacity of organ systems that have deteriorated because of disease or aging. This authoritative textbook provides an overview of the latest advances in the field of stem cell biology, spanning topics that include nuclear reprogramming, somatic cell cloning, and determinants of cell fate; embryonic stem cells for hematopoietic and pancreatic repair; adult stem cells for cardiovascular, neural, renal, and hepatic repair; and manufacturing of stem cells for clinical use.