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oapen-20.500.12657-631322024-03-28T08:18:52Z Extreme Fabulations Shaviro, Steven sociology fashion design sociology books knitting sewing coffee table books art book dress coffee table book makeup history history books embroidery fashion books color cosplay dresses costume fashion design fashion book fashion books coffee table books design books gifts for artists fashion coffee table books fashion design book design book artist gifts fashion designer books gifts for artist self help feminism psychology culture philosophy health business gender music self improvement love thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FL Science fiction thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences An examination of science fiction narratives and the light they shed on human life, the unknowable future, and the vagaries of unforeseeable change. With this book, Steven Shaviro offers a thought experiment. He discusses a number of science fiction narratives: three novels, one novella, three short stories, and one musical concept album. Shaviro not only analyzes these works in detail but also uses them to ask questions about human, and more generally, biological life: about its stubborn insistence and yet fragility; about the possibilities and perils of seeking to control it; about the aesthetic and social dimensions of human existence, in relation to the nonhuman; and about the ethical value of human life under conditions of extreme oppression and devastation. Shaviro pursues these questions through the medium of science fiction because this form of storytelling offers us a unique way of grappling with issues that deeply and unavoidably concern us but that are intractable to rational argumentation or to empirical verification. The future is unavoidably vague and multifarious; it stubbornly resists our efforts to know it in advance, let alone to guide it or circumscribe it. But science fiction takes up this very vagueness and indeterminacy and renders it into the form of a self-consciously fictional narrative. It gives us characters who experience, and respond to, the vagaries of unforeseeable change. 2023-05-24T12:56:28Z 2023-05-24T12:56:28Z 2021 book ONIX_20230524_9781912685875_20 9781912685875 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63132 eng application/pdf 9781912685875.pdf Goldsmiths Press Goldsmiths Press acec4c9d-1c7b-4283-b478-0ac91e6dcfdd 9781912685875 Goldsmiths Press open access
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An examination of science fiction narratives and the light they shed on human life, the unknowable future, and the vagaries of unforeseeable change. With this book, Steven Shaviro offers a thought experiment. He discusses a number of science fiction narratives: three novels, one novella, three short stories, and one musical concept album. Shaviro not only analyzes these works in detail but also uses them to ask questions about human, and more generally, biological life: about its stubborn insistence and yet fragility; about the possibilities and perils of seeking to control it; about the aesthetic and social dimensions of human existence, in relation to the nonhuman; and about the ethical value of human life under conditions of extreme oppression and devastation. Shaviro pursues these questions through the medium of science fiction because this form of storytelling offers us a unique way of grappling with issues that deeply and unavoidably concern us but that are intractable to rational argumentation or to empirical verification. The future is unavoidably vague and multifarious; it stubbornly resists our efforts to know it in advance, let alone to guide it or circumscribe it. But science fiction takes up this very vagueness and indeterminacy and renders it into the form of a self-consciously fictional narrative. It gives us characters who experience, and respond to, the vagaries of unforeseeable change.
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