Rebellion against the numbing effects of technology is possible, but it requires a recognition of the self and a connection with the world outside of the numbing medium.
Visual language allows us to literally express – not just describe – a key aspect to cyborg imagery, which is the destruction of the self and the blur of the abstract with the real.
Bioethics is better able to include various kinds of people, but this tension between the disability movement and modern bioethics shows that we still have a long way to go in our considerations of the moral status of patients.
Dune tells the story of two competing colonial powers warring over a resource-rich planet, one with clear parallels to Soviet Russia, and the other with clear influences of 1950s and ’60s America.
Scientific hypotheses generally come in the form of “if . . . then . . .” statements, and thus they predict a specific chronology: first one thing happens, then another. But what happens when you lose track of this neat …
If disasters harm humanity, what is the purpose of creating more disasters in fiction? A case study of the Japanese science fiction story that has been adapted nine times since its release as a novel in 1973.