Search results for "FICTION"
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The Conference Reimagined. Postcards, Letters, and Camping Together in Undressed Places
2019
In this paper, five authors account for the rethinking of a conference as a series of postcards, letters, rules and silent moments so that traditional hierarchies of knowledge could be overturned or, at least, sidelined. We recount how the place we convened was enlisted as an actor and the dramas and devices we applied to encounter it. We use this accounting to problematize the conventional practices of goal-oriented meetings and co-authored papers as forms of academic meaning-making. In finding a meeting point where expertise was disorientated and status undressed, we were able to investigate the idea of co-being between human and nonhuman realities as the step social theory needs to take …
El cine de ciencia ficción para desarrollar cuestiones sociocientíficas y el pensamiento crítico
2021
espanolEste articulo de reflexion describe como el cine de ciencia ficcion [CCF] puede ser utilizado en la ensenanza de las ciencias desde la perspectiva de las cuestiones sociocientificas [CSC] para contribuir al desarrollo de competencias de pensamiento critico [PC], ya que el CCF se nutre de la ciencia, de la que obtiene conocimiento, pero tambien de problematicas que relacionan el mundo cientifico con la sociedad, la economia o la moral. Por ello, se reflexiona sobre el PC y su relacion con las ciencias. A continuacion, vemos que el cine legitima visiones del mundo. Sin embargo, debido a que el CCF trata temas como la manipulacion genetica, la inteligencia artificial o el calentamiento …
Suomenkielinen näkymä tieteisfiktion kenttään
2018
Markku Soikkeli, Tieteiskirjallisuuden käsikirja. Helsinki, Avain 2015, 352 s.
From South to North? Mobility of Southern Italian Students at the Transition from the First to the Second Level University Degree
2018
In the last decades, the Italian University System has encountered several structural reforms aimed at making it more internationally competitive. Among them, the introduction of the University financial autonomy has triggered an “internal” competition among Universities to attract students from the entire country. Students’ enrollment at the first level has decreased significantly especially after the economic crisis of 2008, while the students’ migration from the South to the Central and Northern regions of the country has increased. These phenomena have created further inequalities within the country and a cultural and socio-economic loss for the South that does not appear to slow down. …
Truth in Fiction Reconsidered
2018
Possible and narrative worlds are traditionally the most influential tools for explaining our understanding of fiction. One obvious implication of this is considering fiction as a matter of pretence. The theory I offer claims that it is a mistake to take truth as a substantial notion. This view rejects possible worlds and pretence as decisive features in dealing with fiction. Minimalist theory of fiction offers a solution that gives a way to combine a philosophical theory of meaning and views of literary theory. Narrative worlds approach saves its usefulness since its focus is more in the psychological process of reading. Minimalist theory of fiction is based on the minimal theory of truth …
Le vignoble bourguignon fictionné: Moi je suis vigneron
2018
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Gordimer's Short Novel The Late Bourgeois World. Elisabeth, a Woman in the Interregnum
1997
Focusing on a close-reading of Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer's short novel The Late Bourgeois World, the essay investigates the history of Apartheid South African society and its racial tensions in one of its most critical moments. Gordimer's fiction and non-fiction frame the study, as well as an array of references to the major critical texts regarding the author.
Frontiera geografica e frontiere mentali nella «Saga di Eirik il Rosso»
2022
La «Saga di Eirik il Rosso» («Eiríks saga rauða») appartiene al gruppo delle “Family Sagas” ("Íslendinga sögur") dell’antica letteratura islandese. Essa si configura come un testo di straordinario interesse storico e antropologico perché contiene una delle più antiche narrazioni della penetrazione dei Vichinghi, prima in Groenlandia e poi nel Nuovo Continente (la cosiddetta Vinlandia), circa 500 anni prima della “scoperta” dell’America da parte di Cristoforo Colombo. Ma è anche un testo ricco di suggestioni che afferiscono alle dimensioni del magico, del meraviglioso, dell’immaginario, e insieme un’opera nella quale la “frontiera” geografica si fonde e si confonde – nella redazione scritta …
Miten konesydän sykkii? Ruotsalainen Hubotit – melkein ihmisiä ei pelkää kysyä isoja kysymyksiä.
2013
Hubotit - melkein ihmisiä (Äkta Människor, Ruotsi 2011-) tuo pohjoismaiseen televisiofiktioon tieteisfiktion tutut teemat kuten ihmisen ja koneen risteymät sekä kuolemattomuuden. Teknologisen kehityksen takana tieteisfiktiossa piilee usein, ellei jopa aina, kysymyksiä kehityksen vaikutuksesta ihmisyyteen. Myös Hubotit - melkein ihmisiä esittää näitä suuria kysymyksiä: Mitä meille tapahtuu teknologian kehittyessä? Voimmeko muuttua joksikin paremmaksi teknologian avulla, vai onko ihmisyys jotain, jota ei voi teknologian avulla luoda tai laajentaa? Millainen voisi olla ihmismielen, -sydämen ja -sielun ohjelmakoodi? nonPeerReviewed