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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"sci-fi"”.
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The Precarity of Images: Sci-fi Worldbuilding and its Uses in Agitprop
… how theories of worldbuilding common to the science fiction genre are applied to the making of agitational propaganda for liberation movements. In doing so, it questions how both explicit and implicit political images—posters, games, comics, illustrations, social media posts—either light a …
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Power On: The ‘Digital Other’ and Emergent Personhood in American Sci-Fi
… and community that occur when we and the many figures of contemporary society confront the digital other. This project will also track our relationship to technology, considering the psychic toll and new solidarities that can emerge in a time where technology so suffuses everyday existence that …
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"We Weren't Kidding": Prediction as Ideology in American Pulp Science Fiction, 1938-1949
In 1971, Isaac Asimov observed in humanity, a science-important society. For this he credited the man who had been his editor in the 1940s during the period known as the golden age of American science fiction, John W. Campbell, Jr. Campbell was editor of Astounding Science-Fiction, the magazine …
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Ichor
… bible for a one-hour teleplay titled Ichor, a sci-fi epic.
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Anxieties and artificial women: disassembling the pop culture gynoid
… robot, or gynoid, in three popular sci-fi texts: The Stepford Wives (1975), Ex Machina (2013), and Westworld (2017). Centralizing a critical feminist rhetorical approach, this thesis outlines the symbolic meaning of gynoids as representing cultural anxieties about women and …
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Liminal identity in contemporary American television science fiction
… protagonist in contemporary American television Science Fiction. These protagonists, which I have termed the ‘unliving,’ exist in-between the realms of life and death, simultaneously both alive and dead whilst occupying an indistinct middleground. I examine how the liminal nature of these …
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Another Beast Entirely
… University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Master of Fine Arts Creative writing program. It includes short stories, nonfiction essays, and an excerpt from a novel. The pieces range in genre from literary, magical realism, and military fiction, to sci-fi, fantasy, western, and mythology. The variety of …
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From Star Trek to Siri: (Dis)Embodied Gender and the Acousmatic Computer in Science Fiction Film and Television
… are not just the products of innovative computer scientists; they have been directly influenced by fictional technology. Computer scientists and programmers have openly drawn inspiration from Science Fiction texts such as Gene Roddenberry's television show Star Trek and Stanley Kubrick's 1968 …
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Edge of the Wagon Wheel
This is a satirical sci-fi novel set in the near future. Following the inadvertent melting of the ice caps, the United States splits—peacefully, like a mutual breakup—into four new countries. In an attempt to prove that the earth is flat, the Best States of America (BSA) have launched a replica of …
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Measuring and optimizing for network conditions on drones
… like streaming real-time video, sounds less like sci-fi and more like a quickly-approaching reality. In order to take full advantage of the capability of drones, we must understand the state of network conditions in the air and determine how we can best optimize for them. Here, we contribute …
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Of Minutemen and Boomers: Fallout and Doing History in Imagined Space
… 1950s American ideals, Fallout merges historical fiction with sci-fi fantasy, exploring themes of American exceptionalism, hyper-Capitalism, anti-communism, nuclear anxiety, and militarism through exaggerated symbols of Americana. This thesis posits that Fallout serves as a critique of Cold War …
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AMPHORM : form giving through gestural interaction to shape changing objects
Shape-shifting materials have been part of sci-fi literature for decades. But if tomorrow we invent them, how are we going to communicate to them what shape we want them to morph into? If we look at our history, for thousands of years humans have been using the dexterity of their hands as primary …
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Heavy Ink: A Documentary on the Comicbook Revolution
… as both a standout comic magazine, and how it fits into the larger tradition of comic books. What started off in 1977 as a sci-fi offshoot of National Lampoon ushered in a new era of comics by bridging the gap between American and European comic sensibilities with a talent pool from all over …
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Mapping the works of Manuel de Pedrolo in relation to the post-civil war Catalan landscape
… Manuel de Pedrolo stands as one of the most prolific Catalan writers in the twentieth century. Furthermore, he is a figure unquestionably associated with Catalan identity and the region’s struggle for self-determination. His corpus comprises over one hundred and twenty titles – poetry, drama, …
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(Im)possible baby : how to stimulate discussions about possibilities of two-mum and two-dad children
… same-sex parents is starting to not look like a sci-fi dream anymore recent developments in genetics and stem cell research, such as the achievements of scientists from Cambridge University in England and Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science 1 have made this dream much closer to reality. Jacob …
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Esoterika
<p>At first, the short story collection, <i>Esoterika</i>, seems like a disjointed collection of stories from all different genres mashed into one collection without rhyme or reason. It goes from the literary fiction settings of "A World Apart," "Crash" and "All Good Things..." through haunted …
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All Things Weird and Wonderful: A Creative Exploration of Disability Representation
… of disability representation in TV and film to set the stage for the one-hour supernatural drama pilot I wrote, which I also adapted into a complete Adult urban fantasy novel.</p> <p>Pitched as the supernatural drama version of Hulu’s <em>Only Murders in the Building</em> meets …
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“Young Adult Books Don’t Realize They Have that Power”: Reader Response to Ideology in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
<p>The purpose of this research is to find out how readers interact with novels in the Young Adult dystopian genre. I will examine the ways in which readers resist the dominant patriarchal ideological discourses in the YA dystopian novel and how readers submit to this ideology. Through an …
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The routes beneath the roots : a system map for prospective food innovators striving for sustainable disruption
From sci-fi food-substituting floury drinks to lab-engineered, plant blood-based patties that grill and smell just like steak, food innovation is blossoming. The modern food movement is challenging the assumptions at the root of our current food system in the face of an appalling health and …
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Taxidermy of Thought
… to inhabit everyone's dark corners, able to fill that creepy void that everyone shies away from. I feel my work has a similar relationship to that of an entomologist. They can find the beauty in an insect, while the rest of the world will recoil in disgust.</p> <p>I have been inspired by many …
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