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Umfang: 180 Seiten ; , 19 cm.

ISBN: 978-2-348-05891-2 , 2-348-05891-X

Inhalt: "Les anthropologues et les écrivains de science-fiction ne poursuivent-ils pas au fond une même quête, celle de l'altérité radicale ? Certes, tandis que les seconds recourent à la fiction pour figurer le monde vertigineux des aliens peuplant leur esprit, les premiers se recommandent de la science pour décrire des sociétés autres qui, aussi étranges et stupéfiantes que nous soient donné à voir leurs moeurs et leurs mentalités, n'en sont pas moins réelles. Cette frontière des genres, il arrive pourtant que certains anthropologues la franchissent: escamotant les modes de pensée des cultures qu'ils se proposent d'étudier, ils y projettent alors leur propre imaginaire métaphysique. 1900-1925 : Lucien Lévy-Bruhl invente une pensée prélogique qu'il attribue aux sociétés dites primitives. 1925-1950: Benjamin LeeWhorf invente une pensée de l'événement qu'il considère comme immanente à la langue des Hopi. 1950-1975 : Carlos Castaneda invente une pensée psychédélique qu'il prête à un Yaqui imaginaire. 1975-2000: Eduardo Viveiros de Castro invente une pensée multinaturaliste qu'il prétend dérivée des traditions amérindiennes. En exposant te brouillage des niveaux de réalité dans lequel excelle un écrivain comme Philip K. Dick pour faire résonner son oeuvre avec les fabulations théoriques de cette école de pensée informelle, Pierre Déléage entreprend une archéologie de la subjectivité spéculative et s'essaie à nouer autrement les relations, toujours conflictuelles mais toujours productives, entre science et fiction."--Page 4 de la couverture

Sprache: Französisch

Fachgebiete: Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen

Schlagwort(e): Ethnologie ; Science-Fiction ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History

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Umfang: 295 S , Ill

Serie: Revue de l'Université de Bruxelles 1985,1/2

Sprache: Französisch

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Umfang: 456 Seiten , 105 x 148 mm

Ausgabe: Mikrofiche-Ausgabe Lille Atelier national de reproduction des thèses$h2014 2 Mikrofiches

Serie: Lille-thèses

Inhalt: Si les publications se sont récemment multipliées sur le posthumain, le transhumanisme ou le human enhancement, leurs auteurs nous semblent, même lorsqu'ils mentionnent la science-fiction, passer à côté de la richesse effective du genre. C'est pourquoi ce travail se propose de mettre à l'épreuve l'idée d'une « possibologie », c'est-à-dire d'une méthode d'exploration des possibles fondée sur la science-fiction, et plus largement la « science-spéculation », en l'appliquant à la question du corps humain technologiquement modifié (« anthropotechnologie »). La Première Partie a ainsi pour rôle premier d'examiner la validité de la thèse méthodologique générale, en s'intéressant cependant déjà aux expériences de pensée sur l'identité personnelle, ainsi qu'à l'éventuelle fonction du genre en termes de prospective technologique. Ce n'est qu'en Deuxième Partie que nous appliquons systématiquement la méthode élaborée à l'anthropotechnologie spéculative. Les principaux enjeux philosophiques engagés (humanité et « personnité », corps et esprit, questions éthiques et politiques ... ) sont alors considérés à travers différentes figures emblématiques (clone, androïde, mutant, surhomme, cyborg, robot) et selon divers niveaux de focalisation et perspectives thématiques (spatiale, militaire, procréative, nanotechnologique ... ). La Troisième Partie propose enfin de tester l'extension de la méthode, au-delà de l'anthropotechnologie et de la science-fiction, à l'ensemble des mondes fictionnels possibles voire impossibles

Anmerkung: Bibliogr. p. 397-428. Index , Dissertation Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris 1 2012

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Philosopher sur les possibles avec la science-fiction : l'exemple de l'homme technologiquement modifié / Sylvie Allouche [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2012

Sprache: Französisch

Schlagwort(e): Hochschulschrift

Mehr zum Autor: Laugier, Sandra 1961-

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ISBN: 9782267048490

Inhalt: "Dans une Argentine profondément métamorphosée par le changement climatique et l'ultralibéralisme, un jeune garçon au corps de moustique est harcelé par ses camarades de classe à cause de sa difformité, de sa différence. Né d'une mère qui se tue au travail et d'un père absent, l'enfant dengue n'a d'autres choix que de se résoudre à son sort... ou de changer, radicalement, ce qu'il est au monde. En quelques pages, les destins s'entremêlent pour nous montrer une société dans toute sa splendeur et sa décadence. Ce futur étrange, où le numérique se fond parfois au réel, nous confronte aux vérités qui dérangent, tout en abordant des questions et des thèmes universels : l'identité, la famille, l'argent et, surtout, la violence. Car c'est elle le fil de ce récit : violence subie, violence donnée, elle est la peine et la rage de cette société. Héritier d'Ursula K. Le Guin, de Philip K.Dick et de Junji Ito, Michel Nieva tisse dans ce court roman une fiction spéculative excentrique, résolument politique, qui flirte avec le réalisme magique. Dans La science-ficiton capitaliste, Michel Nieva interroge la place actuelle de la science-fiction dans nos sociétés contemporaines, ou plutôt la manière dont certains de ses grands concepts ont pu à la fois imposer une certaine vision du futur dans l'imaginaire collectif, tout en donnant aux puissants seules les clés de l'avenir. Une déambulation passionnante, directe et radicale."

Inhalt: Biographisches: "Michel Nieva est né en 1988 à Buenos Aires. Poète, écrivain, essayiste et chercheur, il est aujourd'hui installé à New York. Il a été nommé en 2021 par le magazine Granta dans la liste des meilleurs jeunes auteurs de langue espagnole de la décennie." Biographisches: "Sébastien Rutés est universitaire, spécialiste des littératures latino-américaines, traducteur et romancier. Il vit aujourd'hui à Londres."

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Umfang: 295 S. : , graph. Darst.

Serie: Revue de l'Université de Bruxelles 1985,1/2

Sprache: Französisch

Fachgebiete: Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen

Schlagwort(e): Science-Fiction-Literatur ; Utopie ; Literatur ; Aufsatzsammlung

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ISBN: 9782370491213

Inhalt: "Une fable politique, dans la lignée de 1984, sur le contrôle social, la peur du changement et la plus insensée des révolutions. « Bienvenue à Amatka... où chacun joue un rôle, où le langage possède d'étranges propriétés et où rien 8211 pas même la texture de la réalité 8211 ne peut être garanti.» Ainsi se présente Amatka, cette austère colonie antarctique aux ambiances post-soviétiques. Amatka, lieu interdit à la dissidence et aux sentiments, espace exigu où la liberté niche dans les recoins obscurs du langage, est une communauté heureuse mais totalement figée. Lorsque Vanja, une « assistante d'information », est envoyée en mission là-bas pour y collecter de l'intelligence à des fins gouvernementales, elle comprend rapidement que son séjour qu'elle prévoyait expéditif sera moins routinier qu'envisagé. Et pour cause, le point de bascule n'est jamais très loin dans cette colonie d'hiver, de sorte que Vanja sera amenée à enquêter parmi les ombres d'Amatka, celles qui revendiquent l'insurrection... Jeff Vandermeer, anthologiste du Big Book of Science-Fiction et du recueil The Weird, a considéré ce roman dès le premier instant, louant cette « exploration époustouflante et véritablement originale des mystères du réel et de ce que signifie être humain ». Fille par les lettres de Margaret Atwood et d'Ursula K. Le Guin (pour son approche sociale des Dépossédés), la suédoise Karin Tidbeck dresse avec Amatka une fable d'anticipation aussi réflexive qu'inventive, s'intéressant davantage aux mécanismes du changement qu'à ses seuls effets. Par son style concis et efficace, elle nous offre le portrait d'une société où les mots, dépouillés jusqu'à l'os de leur polysémie, deviennent à la fois un objet de répression et une arme, et où la communication est au cœur des rapports de force."

Inhalt: Biographisches: "Karin Tidbeck est originaire de Stockholm, en Suède. Elle vit et travaille à Malmö en tant qu'auteur indépendant, traductrice et professeur de création littéraire, et rédige ses fictions en suédois et en anglais. Sa carrière littéraire débute en 2010 avec le recueil de nouvelles suédois Vem är Arvid Pekon ? (littéralement : « Qui est Arvid Pekon ? »). Les histoires recueillies dans Jagannath, sa première œuvre écrite et publiée en anglais en 2012, connurent un succès immédiat et remportèrent plusieurs récompenses parmi lesquelles The Crawford Award 2013, et The Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Award 2013, en plus d'être sélectionnées pour The World Fantasy Award 2013 et de recevoir les honneurs du Tiptree Award en 2012. Selon sa propre biographie, Karin Tidbeck consacre son temps libre « à étudier les phénomènes paranormaux, au point de croix subversif et au RPG nordique grandeur nature »." Rezension(2): " Publisher's Weekly : April 10, 2017 Tidbeck reimagines reality and the power of language in her dystopian sci-fi novel. Vanja lives in a world of small colonies where all produced objects revert back to primordial sludge if people do not constantly name them,the failure of one colony in this duty resulted in catastrophic loss of life. To avert similar chaos and destruction, a highly regimented communist collective tightly controls every activity (including recreation, job placement, and child-rearing) and encourages citizens to report any lapse in naming or other inappropriate behavior. The regime, however, has recently allowed some private enterprise, including Vanja’s employer, a producer of hygiene products. Despite her shyness, Vanja is sent to interview the inhabitants of the outer colony Amatka about what products would help them and their underground mushroom farms withstand the harsh tundra climate. In this new environment, Vanja encounters the small subversions of the local librarian trying to save history, her retired-doctor housemate whose questions rattle Vanja, and a famous poet who mysteriously disappeared years before. Emboldened by their actions, Vanja starts to doubt the commune’s motives and rapidly learns that there is more going on than anyone is willing to admit. Tidbeck introduces the mysteries and mechanics of her world slowly while leaving the origins of these pioneers opaque. Her ending takes a turn into much weirder territory, but her tense plotting, as well as the questions she raises about language, control, and human limits make this a very welcome speculative fiction novel. "

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Ausgabe: Unabridged

ISBN: 9781415945384

Serie: MaddAddam Trilogy

Inhalt: "A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin , winner of the Booker Prize Margaret Atwood8217 s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of Oryx and Crake , nothing will ever look the same again. The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief. With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers."

Inhalt: Biographisches: "Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939, and grew up in northern Quebec and Ontario, and later in Toronto. She has lived in numerous cities in Canada, the U.S., and Europe. She is the author of more than thirty books, novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social history, and books for children. Atwood's work is acclaimed internationally and has been published around the world. Her novels include The Handmaid's Tale and Cat's Eye , both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Robber Bride , Alias Grace , winner of the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, and a finalist for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award,and The Blind Assassin , winner of the Booker Prize and a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her new novel is Oryx and Crake . She is the recipient of numerous honours, such as The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in the U.K., the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature in the U.S., Le Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and she was the first winner of the London Literary Prize. She has received honorary degrees from universities across Canada, and one from Oxford University in England. Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson." Rezension(2): " The New Yorker :Towering and intrepid. . Atwood does Orwell one better." Rezension(3): " The Baltimore Sun :Atwood has long since established herself as one of the best writers in English today, but Oryx and Crake may well be her best work yet. . Brilliant, provocative, sumptuous and downright terrifying." Rezension(4): " The Seattle Times :Her shuddering post-apocalyptic vision of the world . summons up echoes of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess and Aldous Huxley. . Oryx and Crake [is] in the forefront of visionary fiction." Rezension(5): " The San Diego Union-Tribune :A book too marvelous to miss." Rezension(6): " The Washington Post :Majestic. . Keeps us on the edges of our seats." Rezension(7): " Newsday :A compelling futuristic vision. . Oryx and Crake carries itself with a refreshing lightness. . Its shrewd pacing neatly balances action and exposition. . What gives the book a deeper resonance is its humanity." Rezension(8): " Time Out New York :[A] stunning new novel--possibly her best since The Handmaid's Tale ." Rezension(9): " The News &,Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina):Truly remarkable. . As fun as it is dark. . A feast of realism, science fiction, satire, elegy and then some. . Atwood has concocted here an all-too-possible vision. . [She is] a master." Rezension(10): " The Economist :A roll of dry, black, parodic laughter. . One of the year's most surprising novels." Rezension(11): " The Denver Post :Sublime. . Good, solid, Swiftian science fiction from a . literary artist par excellence." Rezension(12): " People :Dances with energy and sophisticated gallows humor. . [Atwood's] wry wit makes dystopia fun." Rezension(13): " The Guardian :A crackling read. . Atwood is one of the most impressively ambitious writers of our time." Rezension(14): " The Buffalo News :Gorgeously written, full of eyeball-smacking images and riveting social and scientific commentary. . A cunning and engrossing book by one of the great masters of the form." Rezension(15): " The New York Times Book Review :A powerful vision. . Very readable." Rezension(16): " The Atlanta Journal-Constitution :Brilliant, impossible to put down. . Atwood . is at once commanding and enchanting. Piercingly intelligent and piquantly witty, highly imaginative and unfailingly compassionate, she is a spoonful-of-sugar storyteller, concealing the strong and necessary medicine of her stinging social commentary within the balm of dazzlingly complicated and compelling characters and intricate and involving predicaments." Rezension(17): " Pittsburgh Post-Gazette :Original and chilling. . Powerful, inventive, playful and difficult to resist." Rezension(18): " The Daily Telegraph :Brilliantly constructed. . Jimmy and Crake grip like characters out of Greek tragedy. . Atwood herself is one of our finest linguistic engineers. Her carefully calibrated sentences are formulated to hook and paralyse the reader." Rezension(19): " The Dallas Morning News :Atwood does not disappoint." Rezension(20): " St. Petersburg Times :Gripping. . Bursts with invention and mordant wit, none of which slows down its headlong pace. . Atwood is in sleek form. . [Her] prescience is unsettling." Rezension(21): " USA Today :Biting, black humor and absorbing storytelling. . Atwood entices." Rezension(22): " The Onion :Compelling. . Packed with fascinating ideas. . Her most accessible book in years, a gripping, unadorned story." Rezension(23): " The Times (London):This superlatively gripping and remarkably imagined book joins The Handmaid's Tale in the distinguished company of novels ( The Time Machine, Brave New World and 1984 ) that look ahead to warn us about the results of human shortsightedness." Rezension(24): " Seattle Weekly :Absorbing. . Atwood ahs not lost her touch for following the darker paths of speculative fiction--she easily creates a believable, contained future world." Rezension(25): " Rocky Mountain News :Engrossing. . A novel of ideas, narrated with an almost scientific dispassion and a caustic, distanced humor. The prose is fast and clean." Rezension(26): " Richmond Times-Dispatch :Riveting and thought-provoking. . Keen and cutting. . [Atwood] has grown into one of the most consistently imaginative and masterful fiction writers writing in English today." Rezension(27): "AudioFile Magazine:Snowman may be the last man alive after a killer virus has decimated the world. In flashback, Snowman reveals his pre-plague world and the events leading to its inevitable devastation. In a society whose morality and ethics have fallen to the Great God Science, biotechies tampering with the genetic code have engineered brainless chickens with three breasts,designer babies,BlyssPlus, the Fountain of Youth in a pill,and a grotesque assortment of animals created for organ and tissue transplants. Campbell Scott's husky, intimate tones intensify Snowman's exhaustion and complement Atwood's always credible scenario. Atwood's impeccable storytelling offers tantalizing what ifs but no solutions. This is an important book by one of the great authors of our time read in the sexiest rasp since Frank Muller. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine" Rezension(28): " Publisher's Weekly : Starred review from May 1, 2003 Atwood has visited the future before, in her dystopian novel, The Handmaid39"

Anmerkung: Auszeichnungen: Governor General of Canada:Governor General's Literary Award Finalist

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Hörbuch

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Mehr zum Autor: Atwood, Margaret

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ISBN: 9780062418616

Serie: Thousandth Floor

Inhalt: " New York Times bestseller New York City as you've never seen it before. A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible—,f you want it enough. Welcome to Manhattan, 2118. A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. But people never change: everyone here wants something...and everyone has something to lose. Leda Cole's flawless exterior belies a secret addiction—,o a drug she never should have tried and a boy she never should have touched. Eris Dodd-Radson's beautiful, carefree life falls to pieces when a heartbreaking betrayal tears her family apart. Rylin Myers's job on one of the highest floors sweeps her into a world—,nd a romance—,he never imagined...but will her new life cost Rylin her old one? Watt Bakradi is a tech genius with a secret: he knows everything about everyone. But when he's hired to spy by an upper-floor girl, he finds himself caught up in a complicated web of lies. And living above everyone else on the thousandth floor is Avery Fuller, the girl genetically designed to be perfect. The girl who seems to have it all—,et is tormented by the one thing she can never have. Perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying and Big Little Lies, debut author Katharine McGee has created a breathtakingly original series filled with high-tech luxury and futuristic glamour, where the impossible feels just within reach. But in this world, the higher you go, the farther there is to fall "

Inhalt: Rezension(1): " Katharine McGee is from Houston, Texas. She studied English and French literature at Princeton and has an MBA from Stanford. It was during her years living in a second-floor apartment in New York City that she kept daydreaming about skyscrapers . and then she started writing. She now lives in Philadelphia. The Thousandth Floor is her first novel and The Dazzling Heights her second. " Rezension(2): "Cecily von Ziegesar, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gossip Girl:The luxe lives of Manhattan's elite are even more extraordinary in Katharine McGee's futuristic, highly addictive page-turner. The Thousandth Floor will give you vertigo and leave you eager for more." Rezension(3): "Alyson Noë,, #1 New York Times Author:Katharine McGee's vision of glamorous twenty-second century teens makes for an addictive and compelling read that left me longing for the second installment!" Rezension(4): "Melissa de la Cruz, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author:Twenty-second century Gossip Girl-like fun. Sexy and engrossing!" Rezension(5): "Kass Morgan, New York Times bestselling author of The 100:An unparalleled mash-up of romance, mystery, and science fiction unlike anything I've read before. Katharine McGee gives the speculative fiction genre a much-needed make-over with a novel that's as glamorous as it is fiercely intelligent." Rezension(6): "Anna Godbersen, New York Times bestselling author of The Luxe:A gleaming future where a dirty secret still has pull on any human heart." Rezension(7): "Amy Tintera, author of Ruined:Compelling and imaginative - I loved everything from the fascinating vision of the future to the scandalous lives of the characters." Rezension(8): "Publishers Weekly:A confident debut, replete with romance, jealousy, and enticing future fashions and tech, McGee's story delivers more than enough drama and excitement to hook readers and leave them anticipating the next book in the trilogy." Rezension(9): "School Library Journal:This will be gobbled up by fans of Gossip Girl. An excellent hook and familiar tropes make this title a likely hit." Rezension(10): "Bulletin of the Center for Children’, Books:McGee has done her work in world building and character development to make a juicy, memorable future that readers will want to revisit." Rezension(11): " Publisher's Weekly : May 30, 2016 In a confident debut, McGee creates a fascinating 22nd-century world set in a single thousand-floor mega-tower that houses all of Manhattan. Centering on the genetically flawless Avery Fuller, 16, who lives on the top floor and has everything a wealthy girl could want or need, McGee shifts smoothly among the intersecting stories of a handful of teens. Avery is always the most beautiful girl in the room, much to the chagrin of her best friend Leda, who is hiding a serious drug addiction. Meanwhile, Eris’s perfect life crumbles when she learns that her father is not her biological father and, therefore, she and her mother are penniless. Rylin, an orphan, takes a job as a maid for spoiled Cord Anderton, only to begin an uncertain courtship. Watt, a computer genius, creates an illegal “quant” named Nadia that helps him navigate the social structure of the tower. Replete with romance, jealousy, and enticing future fashions and tech, McGee’s story delivers more than enough drama and excitement to hook readers and leave them anticipating the next book in the trilogy. Ages 13–up. Agency: Alloy Entertainment. "

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