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what Edward Said has called ‘imaginative geography’ (Said 1995: 49). This special issue will include critical discussions of how creative texts have challenged the totalizing, supposedly authoritative version of world geography that is common in maps of Empire, and more generally in Western cartography.
14 Οκτ 2024 · science fiction, a form of fiction that deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals. The term science fiction was popularized, if not invented, in the 1920s by one of the genre’s principal advocates, the American publisher Hugo Gernsback.
9 Οκτ 2020 · Engaging the public in applied research that borrows from science fiction calls for a common understanding. Accepting a popular comprehension of the genre supports successful research outcomes in communication, advocacy, and pedagogy that employ science fiction to effect results.
2 Οκτ 2014 · While some have seen extrapolation and speculation as opposites, others have seen them as sequential stages in an imaginative process, and still others have used the terms interchangeably, the distinctions between them blurred by differing conceptions of plausibility and of science.
Solvation is the interaction of a solvent with the dissolved solute—in the case of water, solvation is often referred to as hydration. Solvent polarity is the most important factor in determining how well it solvates a particular solute.
26 Ιουλ 2018 · Literary and cultural historians describe science fiction (SF) as the premiere narrative form of modernity because authors working in this genre extrapolate from Enlightenment ideals and industrial practices to imagine how educated people using machines and other technologies might radically change the material world.
7 Νοε 2019 · The primary way we engage with fiction is through story and feeling. While theories of stories abound, little has been done in terms of investigating how stories produce feelings—what I call atmospheres in this essay. Atmospheres describe the feelings and moods that permeate a fictional world.
