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Author |
: Helga Schmid |
Publisher |
: Birkhäuser |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2020-01-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783035618112 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3035618119 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Uchronia by : Helga Schmid
What time is it? Why should we care? This book critically investigates our contemporary time crisis. The transformation of society from an agrarian to an industrial, and finally an urbanized way of living and working has created a fundamental change in our understanding of time: a 24/7 mentality. The move from natural time to the digital age leads to a fragmentation of time that deeply affects our daily biological and social rhythm. We need a new approach to time to overcome our temporal system of clocks and calendars. This book investigates a new perception of time by exploring the concept of uchronia, a term derived from the Greek u-topos and meaning ‘no time’ or ‘non-time’. Uchronia is a way of questioning, speculating on and designing new kinds of temporal systems that are more about being in tune than on time.
Author |
: Orson Scott Card |
Publisher |
: Tor Books |
Total Pages |
: 414 |
Release |
: 2009-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429966191 |
ISBN-13 |
: 142996619X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pastwatch by : Orson Scott Card
In one of the most powerful and thought-provoking novels of his remarkable career, Orson Scott Card's Pastwatch interweaves a compelling portrait of Christopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a world filled with hope and healing. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author |
: Christos a. Djonis |
Publisher |
: Page Publishing Inc |
Total Pages |
: 174 |
Release |
: 2014-07-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781628384635 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1628384638 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Uchronia by : Christos a. Djonis
Nearly 2,400 years ago, ancient philosopher Plato wrote the story of Atlantis, a compelling tale of an 11,000-year-old island civilization which has since captivated the imagination of poets, authors, and the minds of many scholars who over the centuries kept on searching for the legendary island. Today, numerous speculations place Atlantis in locations like the Azores Islands in the middle of the Atlantic, in Spain, somewhere off the coast of southeastern Cyprus, in Malta, or in more exotic lo
Author |
: Quentin Deluermoz |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 393 |
Release |
: 2021-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300227543 |
ISBN-13 |
: 030022754X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Past of Possibilities by : Quentin Deluermoz
An exploration of hypothetical turning points in history from Ancient Greece to September 11 What if history, as we know it, had run another course? Touching on alternate histories of the future and the past, or uchronias, A Past of Possibilities encourages deeper consideration of watershed moments in the course of history. Wide-ranging in scope, it examines the Boxer Rebellion in China, the 1848 revolution in France, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, and integrates science fiction, history, historiography, sociology, anthropology, and film. In probing the genre of literature and history that is fascinated with hypotheticals surrounding key points in history, Quentin Deluermoz and Pierre Singaravélou reach beyond a mere reimagining of history, exploring the limits and potentials of the futures past. From the most bizarre fiction to serious scientific hypothesis, they provide a survey of the uses of counterfactual histories, methodological issues on the possible in social sciences, and practical proposals for using alternate histories in research and the wider public.
Author |
: Kirsten Hastrup |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 142 |
Release |
: 2013-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134926558 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134926553 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Other Histories by : Kirsten Hastrup
The historization of anthropology has entailed a radically new view upon history and the nature of history. This collection of papers from the first conference of the newly formed European Association of Social Anthropologists demonstrate how ways of thinking about history are important features of any production of history, and how cultural concepts enter as forcs of historical causation.
Author |
: Paul K. Alkon |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 358 |
Release |
: 2010-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820337722 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820337722 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Origins of Futuristic Fiction by : Paul K. Alkon
For nearly two thousand years, the future was a realm reserved for prophets, poets, astrologers, and practitioners of deliberative rhetoric. Then in 1659 the French writer Jacques Guttin published his romance Epigone, which carried the subtitle "the history of the future century." Unlike the stories of space travel that were popular at the time, or the tales of travel to distant earthly lands which had long been a familiar literary genre, Guttin's romance described human societies displaced by time as well as by space and heroes not of his own day but of a future age. Paul Alkon's Origins of Futuristic Fiction examines the earliest works of prose fiction set in future time, the forgotten writings of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries that are the precursors of such well-known masterpieces of the form as H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and George Orwell's 1984. The first secular story to break the imaginative barrier against tales of the future, Epigone marked the emergence of a form unknown to classical, medieval, or renaissance literature. Guttin's courageous displacement of narrative into future time was followed by writers such as Samuel Madden, Louis-Sebastien Mercier, Cousin de Granville, Mary Shelley, and Emile Souvestre, who wrote books with such titles as Memoirs of the Twentieth Century, The Year 2440, The Last Man, and The World As It Will Be. Most extraordinary, though, may be Felix Bodin's great metafictional Le roman de l'avenir, "the novel of the future." Both a narrative of the future and a poetics of the new genre, this book identified in the previous isolated works set in future time a situation rarely encountered in literary history, in which the possibility for a new form clearly existed without yet being altogether achieved. In the introduction to his uncompleted novel, Bodin presented his vision of the futuristic novel as a literature of realism, morality, and fantasy. His remarkably astute attempt to define the aesthetics of a major transformation in the relation between literature and time still stands as the basis for the poetics of futuristic fiction. Tracing the early literary history of what became a major form of modern fiction, Origins of Futuristic Fiction examines the key works of the earliest writers of the genre not for what they betray of past expectations but for what they reveal about the formal problems that needed to be resolved before tales of the future could achieve their full power in the works of later novelists.
Author |
: Harry Harrison |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 549 |
Release |
: 1994-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466823303 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1466823305 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Hammer and the Cross by : Harry Harrison
865 A.D. Warring kings rule over the British Isles, but the Church rules over the kings, threatening all who oppose them with damnation. Only the dreaded Vikings of Scandinavia do not fear the priests. Shef, the bastard son of a Norse raider and a captive English lady, is torn by divided loyalties and driven by strange visions that seem to come from Odin himself. A smith and warrior, he alone dares to imagine new weapons and tactics with which to carve out a kingdom--and launch an all-out war between....The Hammer and the Cross. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author |
: Michael Erlhoff |
Publisher |
: Birkhäuser |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2018-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783035617429 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3035617422 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis NERD – New Experimental Research in Design by : Michael Erlhoff
Design has long expressed and established itself as an independent research competence – a fact that also companies, institutions and politicians have come to acknowledge. What is still needed, however, is a stronger public platform for design to confidently reflect upon this process and to establish and communicate the specific innovative and experimental dimension of design research. For this reason, BIRD, the Board of International Research in Design, has developed the New Experimental Research in Design / NERD format. The edited conference contributions of twelve young researchers from all over the world provide an impressive and diverse and insightful range of intelligent and inspiring approaches in design research, giving rise to further debate and action in the rapidly evolving field.
Author |
: Jennifer Raiser |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2016-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781631062568 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1631062565 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Burning Man by : Jennifer Raiser
An authorized collection of more than two hundred color photos showcases the sculptures, art, stories, and interviews from the annual celebration of artistic expression in Nevada's barren Black Rock Desert
Author |
: Grzegorz Trębicki |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2015-02-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443875264 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1443875260 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Worlds So Strange and Diverse by : Grzegorz Trębicki
This book represents an analysis of contemporary fantasy (non-mimetic) literature in all its richness and diversity, and offers a preliminary definition of the major fields of taxonomical interest, in addition to marking some of the unmapped territories of “fantastic” fiction. In its first part, the book presents an overview of all major previous theoretical discussions of the issue, particularly those by Tzvetan Todorov, Rosemary Jackson, Darko Suvin, Brian Attebery, Marek Oziewicz and Farah Mendlesohn. The second part of the book provides an interesting comprehensive taxonomy of its own, based on the notion of supragenological types of literature, first introduced by Andrzej Zgorzelski.