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Mar 3, 2020 · An extraordinary amount of science fiction (SF) carries significant content of a moralistic nature consistently reflecting concerns about social becoming nested within the context of the times the works were written (Blackford, 2017).
Oct 2, 2017 · Binarism in Post-colonial Theory. From ‘binary’, meaning a combination of two things, a pair, ‘two’, duality (OED), this is a widely used term with distinctive meanings in several fields and one that has had particular sets of meanings in post-colonial theory. The concern with binarism was first established by the French structural ...
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Jan 3, 2018 · Observations. When Science Fiction Meets Social Science. Sci-fi author Ada Palmer explains why she goes less into the details of antimatter engines and more into sociological questions of of...
Dec 1, 2015 · Therefore, science fiction engages in post-conventional gender traits by transgressing the system of binary oppositions that has characterised most societies for centuries, and that has privileged men over women. Oppositions are essential for creating images of the “other” but are also crucial for defining the “one” in science fiction.
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Aug 1, 2018 · Finally, sci-fi is itself a social field in the world, characterized by its own norms, cultures, logics, and inequalities. While it’s easy to identify a progressive orientation to many of sci-fi’s visions of the future, there is also a long tradition of sexist and racist sci-fi writing.
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Social science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, usually (but not necessarily) soft science fiction, concerned less with technology/ space opera and more with speculation about society. In other words, it "absorbs and discusses anthropology" and speculates about human behavior and interactions. [1]
Dualism and Social Rhetoric. One crucial way that identities, both visual and inner, are created is with reference to dualisms. A dualism (or a binary) is a pair of contrasted opposites like light/dark, good/bad, or up/down, where often times one is defined completely in relation to its opposite. It is this relational definition that makes ...
