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11 gru 2013 · Drawing on theories of posthumanism, this paper explores the contemporary city through a reading of China Miéville's fantasy novel Perdido Street Station, which exposes the imaginative potential of monsters and magic for developing new and resistant metropolitan mythologies.
1 maj 2011 · At one level, this paper poses a general question about the relationship between ‘fictional’ texts in general and ‘actual’ cities; between creative or poetic work and the realities of city life and more empirical forms of discourse that attempt to track those realities.
28 lip 2018 · The discussion will bring together a filmmaker, urban planner, researcher and technologist, to explore how science fiction both reflects and influences our real-world cities.
18 wrz 2017 · Urban worldbuilding is at the heart a lot of speculative fiction classics. But authors don’t develop the history, geography and ecology of their imaginary worlds in a vacuum. Often, their creations reflect present (or predicted) conditions right here on Earth.
1 gru 2013 · Science fiction has long been concerned with imagining cities of the future but contemporary ‘posturban’ cities are ‘strange zones’ where the future has already happened.
13 wrz 2016 · A low presence of urban space is found in science fiction compared to general fiction, alongside a historical trend, and no such dip is present in other types of fiction across the twentieth century. Expand
1 maj 2011 · Can the rigidly bound city-buildings of science fiction (SF) provide a critical space to resist a movement towards structural divisions within the urban realm?
