On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre

Suvin, Darko

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“…Producen un extrañamiento con respecto a la realidad empíricamente verificable a través de la introducción de uno o varios novum: innovaciones, muchas veces técnicas, que constituyen Paakat: Revista de Tecnología y Sociedad Año 9, núm. 16, marzo-agosto 2019, e-ISSN: 2007-3607 el núcleo cognitivo de la trama (Suvin, 1972) y en las que reside la dislocación entre el mundo diegético del relato y el mundo extradiegético de la realidad empírica. En torno al novum dominante se construye una "red de innovaciones" (Novell, 2008, pp.…”

Section: Ficción Ciencia Ficción Y Mímesis De La Memoria Coordenadaunclassified

Memory restlessness. Technology and amplified memories in Black Mirror series

Trujillo¹

2019

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ResumenUna de las temáticas recurrentes en la ciencia ficción audiovisual contemporánea ha girado en torno a las relaciones entre memoria y tecnología. En este tipo de relatos se han abordado con relativa frecuencia las implicaciones sociales e individuales de una memoria transhumana, es decir, tecnológicamente mejorada o aumentada. En este trabajo, se analizan cómo se ha representado la relación entre memoria y tecnología en la exitosa serie de ficción televisiva Black Mirror. Desde un enfoque basado en los estudios sobre memoria cultural y ficción televisiva, y a partir del análisis de contenido cualitativo, examino específicamente dos capítulos que tematizan de manera explícita las relaciones entre memoria y tecnología: The Entire History of You (2011) y Crocodile (2017). Janny Amaya TrujilloLos resultados del análisis muestran cómo, en estos episodios, la irrupción de innovaciones mnemotecnológicas conlleva a un descentramiento en torno a los conceptos mismos de recordar y olvidar, trastornando los límites entre el registro y el recuerdo, entre el archivo y la memoria, entre lo personal y lo público e incluso, entre pasado y presente. En estos capítulos, los alcances sociales y humanos de la amplificación mediante prótesis tecnológicas de las capacidades biológicas de registro, almacenamiento y recuperación de la memoria se delinean críticamente a partir de dos ejes fundamentales: por una parte, la memoria como objeto de consumo compulsivo, y por otra, la memoria como objeto de control social. Palabras claveMemoria cultural; ciencia ficción; tecnologías de la memoria; ficción televisiva; transhumanismo. AbstractOne of the recurring themes in contemporary audiovisual science fiction has revolved around the relationship between memory and technology. In these types of stories, the social and individual implications of a transhuman memory, that is, technologically improved or augmented, have been approached with relative frequency. In this paper, I intend to analyze how the relationship between memory and technology has been represented in the successful television fiction series Black Mirror. From an approach based on studies on cultural memory and television fiction, and from the analysis of qualitative content, I specifically examine two chapters that explicitly thematize the relationships between memory and technology: The Entire History of You (2011) and Crocodile (2017). The results of the analysis show how, in these episodes, the irruption of mnemotechnological innovations leads to a decentering around the very concepts of remembering and forgetting, upsetting the limits between registration and recall, between the archive and memory, between personal and public and even between past and present. In these chapters, the social and human reaches of the amplification by technological prostheses of the biological capacities of registration, storage and recovery of memory are delineated critically from two fundamental axes: on the one hand, memory as an object of compulsive consumption, and on the other, memor...

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Memory restlessness. Technology and amplified memories in Black Mirror series

Trujillo¹

2019

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“…Darko Suvin's 1972 definition of science fiction still provides a useful starting point: a 'literary genre whose necessary and sufficient conditions are the presence and interaction of estrangement and cognition, and whose main formal device is an imaginative framework alternative to the author's empirical environment' [25]. In other words, science fiction opens up a cognitive space of estrangement between the fictional world and the empirical world of the reader that must be negotiated [26].…”

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Cities of the imagination: Science fiction, urban space, and community engagement in urban planning

Collie

2011

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“…This is immense and unresolved, stemming partly from the fact that utopias cut across disciplines. Scholars who study literary texts, for example, are sometimes inclined to define utopias as literary texts (see, for example, Suvin 1972 and 1973; Kumar 1991). Others (including myself) define them more broadly, to include lived experiments (Sargisson and Sargent, 2004).…”

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Friends Have All Things in Common: Utopian Property Relations

Sargisson

2010

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Utopian theory has long challenged the conventions of private property. Drawing on two case studies, this article explores utopian practices that challenge dominant property narratives. These practices range from the mundane to the profound and occur inside the domestic, economic, interpersonal and ideological structures of the cases in question. These cases are Riverside and Centrepoint Communities: two intentional communities, comprised of people who have chosen to live and work together for a common purpose, are critical of current socioeconomic (and ideological, spiritual and interpersonal) norms and who intend to create a better life for their members.

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On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre

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Memory restlessness. Technology and amplified memories in Black Mirror series

Memory restlessness. Technology and amplified memories in Black Mirror series

Cities of the imagination: Science fiction, urban space, and community engagement in urban planning

Friends Have All Things in Common: Utopian Property Relations

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