Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World
Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World

Author: Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro

Publisher: World Weaver Press

Published: 2018-08-07

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780998702292

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Imagine a sustainable world, run on clean and renewable energies that are less aggressive to the environment. Now imagine humanity under the impact of these changes. This is the premise Brazilian editor Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro proposed, and these authors took the challenge to envision hopeful futures and alternate histories. The stories in this anthology explore terrorism against green corporations, large space ships propelled by the pressure of solar radiation, the advent of photosynthetic humans, and how different society might be if we had switched to renewable energies much earlier in history. Originally published in Brazil and translated for the first time from the Portuguese by Fábio Fernandes, this anthology of optimistic science fiction features nine authors from Brazil and Portugal including Carlos Orsi, Telmo Marçal, Romeu Martins, Antonio Luiz M. Costa, Gabriel Cantareira, Daniel I. Dutra, André S. Silva, Roberta Spindler, and Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro.

Storying the Ecocatastrophe
Storying the Ecocatastrophe

Author: Helena Duffy

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1040025862

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How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action or at least raise their environmental awareness without, however, appearing didactic? Storying the Ecocatastrophe attempts to answer this question while interrogating the potential of narrative to become a viable political force. The collection of essays achieves this by examining the representational strategies and ideological goals of contemporary cultural productions about climate change. These productions have been created across different genres, such as the traditional novel, dance performance, solarpunk, economic report, collage, and space opera, as well as across different languages and cultures. The volume’s twelve chapters demonstrate that rising temperatures, erratic weather, extinction of species, depletion of resources, and coastal erosion and flooding are an effect of our abusive relationship with nature. They also show that our use of nuclear power, extraction of natural resources and extensive farming, including heavy reliance on pesticides, intersect with intrahuman violence, as fleshed out by heteropatriarchy, racism, (neo)colonialism, and capitalism. They finally argue that human activity has indirectly contributed to other contemporary crises, namely the migrant crisis and the spread of contagious diseases such as Covid-19.

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate

Author: Adeline Johns-Putra

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-04-07

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1316512169

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This volume unfolds the complex relationship between literature and climate by uniquely illuminating historical complexity, diverse viewpoints, and emerging issues.

Rethinking Technology and Engineering
Rethinking Technology and Engineering

Author: Albrecht Fritzsche

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-05-30

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 3031252330

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This book gives insight into the ongoing work of the forum on Philosophy, Engineering and Technology (fPET), which brings together philosophers and engineers from all over the world to discuss philosophical issues of engineering across disciplinary boundaries. Drawing on presentations and conversations at the fPET 2020 online conference hosted by the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Chile, the chapters establish connections and describe discoveries that have so far been neglected in the discussions held within the young discipline of philosophy of engineering. This volume appeals to students and researchers in the field, through twenty-four proposals brought forward by leading scholars and emerging voices. Pertinent themes covered are: the broader engagement of engineers in problem-solving beyond the scope of their own profession the exploration of new goals for technology development and the implementation of strategies to reach these goals the need for philosophical content and unique pedagogical approaches to engineering education, digital transformations, artificial intelligence and the ethics of online collaboration in social media critical revisions of fundamental terminology and theoretical modelling of key concepts in engineering design, ethics, innovation and the anthropology of technology

Rikka Zine Vol.1 (English Edition): Shipping Issue
Rikka Zine Vol.1 (English Edition): Shipping Issue

Author: Renan Bernardo

Publisher: Rikka Zine

Published: 2022-11-05

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13:

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Rikka Zine is a new exhilarating Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology. This very first issue is a collection of stories about “shipping” that explores delivery work, the human relationship, and migration to other worlds. We encourage SFF in translation, new and emerging writers from non-Anglophone countries and diaspora writers. English is not the first language of most of our contributing writers, with two thirds of them from Asia and the other third from Brazil. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Delivery “Flightless” by Shu Chiba (JP-EN Tr. by Matt Treyvaud) “The Time Traveler’s Delivery” by Renan Bernardo (Reprint) “Enclosure” by Mu Hai (CN-EN Tr. by Judith Huang) Chapter 2: Weird “A Flawless Cicada Skin” by Hitokoe Inada (JP-EN Tr. by Kalau Almony) “How Much Does an Evil Spirit Weigh?” by Hayane Neya (JP-EN Tr. by Macha Spoehrle) Chapter 3: Chosen Family “Our Lives on Tides” by Soham Guha (Reprint) “Elysium: A Tale of Homecoming” by Toori Haito (JP-EN Tr. by Brian Bergstrom) “For Those Who Stay” by Vitória Vozniak “Happiness Comes Three Nights Later” by Sasaboushi (JP-EN Tr. by Burntends and Terrie Hashimoto​​) Chapter 4: Immigration to New Worlds ​​ “The People of the Missing Recipient” by Rodrigo Ortiz Vinholo “What the Sea Made Me Leave Behind” by Giu Yukari Murakami “Swifter Than the Cucumber, Slower Than the Eggplant” by Motoimoto (JP-EN Tr. by Sylvia Gallagher) 10 of 12 stories have never been published before. ---------------------------------- About Editor Terrie Hashimoto, Editor, has been working on the publication of science fiction and fantasy in Japan for over fourteen years as a book reviewer, critic and anthologist.

(Re-)Imagining New Media
(Re-)Imagining New Media

Author: Christoph Ernst

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-05-31

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 3658328991

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The late 20th century was a formative phase in the history of digital media culture. The introduction of "new media" was associated with promises for the future that still resonate today. This book brings together contributions that discuss key aspects of the "imaginaries" surrounding new media in this epoch. The focus is on the works of the media artist group Van Gogh-TV, especially the historically very important interactive television project "Piazza virtuale" (1992).

Come With Me If You Want to Live
Come With Me If You Want to Live

Author: Michael Harris

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-11-02

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1666940143

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If our near future sometimes feels like a dystopian sci-fi movie, that’s because it is. In Come With Me If You Want to Live: The Future as Foretold in Classic Sci-Fi Films, Michael Harris reveals the hidden-in-plain-sight meanings of the greatest science fiction films of the past fifty years, the ways in which they predicted the future that we are increasingly living in, but how we can still avoid the worst of what they warned us about. The 1970s saw the start of a new wave of science fiction that predicted environmental destruction, out-of-control technology, and escalating political crises. These were not the fantastical imaginings of filmmakers, they were based on rising environmental consciousness and solid scientific research. The explanation of why we didn’t heed these warnings might be the most important story of our time – and now our future. Each chapter focuses on a classic sci-fi film: among them Blade Runner, Terminator 2, 12 Monkeys, Brazil, , Soylent Green, and the Back to the Future series; these films are used to consider our likely environmental, technological, and political future. But taking sci-fi seriously again could help us to regain our power to create different tomorrows guided by practical utopianism, and to imagine new science fictions for a better world. If you’re wondering what the future holds, maybe you’ve already seen it.