The Fantastic in the Arts: Science Fiction Studies and Literary Criticism
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Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth The Gothic Anthropocene Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund and Johan Höglund, Editors 2022 Spring
- An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era
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Training for Catastrophe Fictions of National Security after 9/11 Lindsay Thomas 2021 Spring
- A timely, politically savvy examination of how impossible disasters shape the very real possibilities of our world
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Timescales Thinking across Ecological Temporalities Bethany Wiggin, Carolyn Fornoff and Patricia Eunji Kim, Editors 2020 Fall
- Humanists, scientists, and artists collaborate to address the disjunctive temporalities of ecological crisis
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The Computer’s Voice From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 2020 Fall
- A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk
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Infrastructures of Apocalypse American Literature and the Nuclear Complex Jessica Hurley 2020 Fall
- A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures
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Invoking Hope Theory and Utopia in Dark Times Phillip E. Wegner 2020 Spring
- An appeal for the importance of theory, utopia, and close consideration of our contemporary dark times
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The Metabolist Imagination Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction William O. Gardner 2020 Spring
- Japan’s postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors
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Furious Feminisms Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill and Barbara Gurr 2020 Spring
- A provocative peek into this complicated film as a space for subversion, activism, and imaginative power
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The Monster Theory Reader Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editor 2020 Spring
- A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributions
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Re-Enchanted The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century Maria Sachiko Cecire 2019 Fall
- From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world
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An Ecotopian Lexicon Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy, Editors 2019 Fall
- Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation
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Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2019 Spring
- Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?
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None of This Is Normal The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer Benjamin J. Robertson 2018 Fall
- How the otherworldly worlds created by the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy speak to—and even affect—our own
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The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall
- Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor
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The Sound of Things to Come An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film Trace Reddell 2018 Fall
- A groundbreaking approach to sound in sci-fi films offers new ways of construing both sonic innovation and science fiction cinema
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Wild Child Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics Naomi Morgenstern 2018 Spring
- Exploring how the figure of the “wild child” in contemporary fiction grapples with contemporary cultural anxieties about reproductive ethics and the future of humanity
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Double Visions, Double Fictions The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature Baryon Tensor Posadas 2018 Spring
- A fresh take on the doppelgänger and its place in Japanese film and literature—past and present
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Transhumanism Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia Andrew Pilsch 2017 Fall
- Exploring the rich history and utopian potential of transhumanism’s belief that humanity is on the cusp of radical evolutionary transformation
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring
- Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
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The Perversity of Things Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction Hugo Gernsback 2016 Fall
- The founder of science fiction and his other inventions
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Fuel A Speculative Dictionary Karen Pinkus 2016 Fall
- Undoing the dream of free, clean power from A to Z
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Farm Worker Futurism Speculative Technologies of Resistance Curtis Márez 2016 Spring
- How one of America’s key social movements led the way in using new media for justice
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The Age of Lovecraft Carl H. Sederholm and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editors 2016 Spring
- The first sustained look at Lovecraft in relation to twenty-first-century critical theory and culture
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Speculative Blackness The Future of Race in Science Fiction André M. Carrington 2016 Spring
- Examines race through fanzines, Star Trek, comic books, and Harry Potter
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Ambient Media Japanese Atmospheres of Self Paul Roquet 2016 Spring
- How atmospheric media have come to shape urban Japan
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Simultaneous Worlds Global Science Fiction Cinema Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells, Editors 2015 Fall
- Reframes science fiction cinema as a global genre
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Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction Quentin Meillassoux 2015 Spring
- Imagining a fiction where science is impossible
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The Universe of Things On Speculative Realism Steven Shaviro 2014 Fall
- An up-to-the-moment critique of a recent turn in philosophical thought
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The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami Matthew Carl Strecher 2014 Fall
- A journey through the mysterious metaphysical realm where Haruki Murakami’s strangest characters lurk, bizarre scenes unfold, and dark secrets emerge
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Summa Technologiae Stanisław Lem 2014 Spring
- From the acclaimed author of the science fiction novel Solaris, a pre-Dawkins exposition of evolution as a blind and chaotic watchmaker
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Universes without Us Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature Matthew A. Taylor 2013 Fall
- Reimagining posthumanism through the work of canonical American writers
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Mechademia 7 Lines of Sight Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2012 Fall
- Tracing the impact of anime and manga’s radical break with Cartesian perspective
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Beautiful Fighting Girl Saito Tamaki 2011 Spring
- From Nausicaä to Sailor Moon, understanding girl heroines of manga and anime within otaku culture
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Nakagami, Japan Buraku and the Writing of Ethnicity Anne McKnight 2011 Spring
- How Japan's most canonical postwar writer brought that country's largest social minority into the mainstream
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I Think I Am Philip K. Dick Laurence A. Rickels 2010 Spring
- Sounds out the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Philip K. Dick’s influential fiction
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From Utopia to Apocalypse Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe Peter Y. Paik 2010 Spring
- The pitfalls and limitations of utopian politics as revealed by science fiction
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The Devil Notebooks Laurence A. Rickels 2008 Fall
- This sequel to The Vampire Lectures takes on the Devil
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Murder Most Modern Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture Sari Kawana 2008 Spring
- Surveillance, sexuality, war, and censorship in Japanese detective fiction
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Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. and Takayuki Tatsumi, Editors 2007 Fall
- Connecting Japan’s vibrant science fiction tradition to the global phenomenon of anime
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The Souls of Cyberfolk Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory Thomas Foster 2005 Spring
- Considers the construction of race, gender, and sexuality in virtual reality