World weavers : globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution /

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World Weavers is the first ever study on the relationship between globalization and science fiction. Scientific innovations provide citizens of different nations with a unique common ground and the means to establish new connections with distant lands. This study attempts to investigate how our worl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wong, Kin-yuen, 1944- (Editor ), Westfahl, Gary (Editor ), Chan, Amy Kit-sze (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2005.
Temas:
Science fiction > History and criticism.
Cybernetics in literature.
Science fiction > Social aspects.
Culture and globalization.
Science-fiction > Aspect social.
Science-fiction > Histoire et critique.
Culture et mondialisation.
Cybernétique dans la littérature.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
Science fiction > Social aspects
Culture and globalization
Cybernetics in literature
Science fiction
Science-Fiction
Globalisierung
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From semaphors and steamships to servers and spaceships: the saga of globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution / Gary Westfahl
  • Going mobile: tradition, technology, and the cultural monad / George Slusser
  • Urge et Orbe: a prehistory of the postmodern world city / Howard V. Hendrix
  • 2001, or a cyberpalace odyssey: toward the ideographic imagination / Takayuki Tatsumi
  • The genealogy of the cyborg in Japanese popular culture / Sharalyn Orbaugh
  • Hermeneutics and Taiwan science fiction / Wong Kin Yuen
  • Is utopia obsolete? Imploding boundaries in Neal Stephenson's The diamond age / N. Katherine Hayles
  • Tales of futures passed: the Kipling continuum and other lost worlds of science fiction / Andy Sawyer
  • Globalization in Japanese science fiction, 1900 and 1963: The seabed warship and its re-interpretation . Thonmas Schnellbacher
  • The limits of "humanity" in comparative perspective: Cordwainer Smith and the Soushenji / Lisa Raphals
  • The idea of the Asian in Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle / Jake Jakaitis
  • Godzilla's travels: the evolution of a globalized gargantuan / Gary Westfahl
  • Black secret technology: African technological subjects / Gerald Gaylard
  • The teeth of the new cockatoo: mutation and trauma in Greg Egan's Teranesia / Chris Palmer
  • When cyberfeminism meets Chinese philosophy: computer, weaving and women / Amy Kit-sze Chan
  • Hollywood enters the dragon / Véronique Flambard-Weisbart
  • Romeo must die: action and agency in Hollywood and Hong Kong action films / Susanne Rieser and Susanne Lummerding.

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