ENG237H1 : ENG237 Science Fiction REVISION.docx
Document Summary
Excluded, only for a certain type of community. Actively dismissed and marginalized, kept away from the center of true proper literary worthiness. Community that appreciates and reads science fiction actively separates itself and talks to itself. Difference, otherness, the strange, the unfamiliar, the new. Challenge received ideologies (our scientific, empirical, rational worldview; our practices and beliefs related to sex, sexuality, and reproduction; our relationship to/with technology. ) Scientific fiction scientifiction science fiction (hugo gernsback, 1920s) Science = kind of practice, specific ideological discourse and language, imperial and logical experience of the world. Legitimized into the social and cultural and historical context. Mechanical robots; genetic engineering; biological robots (cyborgs) Worlds that are radically different than our own in some way. Setting- space, future or alternate earth, another planet, a spaceship, alien environments and cultures, a technologically highly advanced society. Characters- robots, machines, ais, aliens, transhumans/ posthumans, cyborgs.
