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And Then There Was Nothing. Existentialism and Horror in Science Fiction

Author : Allison Monahan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783668023123
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book And Then There Was Nothing. Existentialism and Horror in Science Fiction written by Allison Monahan and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2015 in the subject English - History of Literature, Eras, California State University, Fullerton, course: Science Fiction Literature, language: English, abstract: "There is no traced-out path to lead man to his salvation; he must constantly invent his own path (Vasey)." With this freedom comes immense fear- fear of choices, of the consequences of those choices. Perhaps worse than this, is the thought of no consequence at all. Not because of proper decision-making or behavior, but simply because the consequence would be irrelevant. In the end, it mattered not what anyone did-it all just ends. Existentialist philosophy begs these kinds of questions; many of which play directly into the newly bled together works or horror and science fiction. "Blood Music" by Greg Bear is a terrifying work of art that incorporates existentialist theory into its story to contemplate human existence, or the potential lack thereof, and the implications of a genre composed of both science or speculative fiction and horror.

Existential Science Fiction

Author : Ryan Lizardi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793647364
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Existential Science Fiction written by Ryan Lizardi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores contemporary existential science fiction media, including film, television, and video games, and their influence on society’s conceptions of memory, identity, and humanity. Most poignantly, Ryan Lizardi argues, are the ways in which a recent cluster of science fiction media, including Gravity (2013), Interstellar (2014), Legion (2017-2019), Westworld (2016-present), Soma (2015), and Death Standing (2019), among others, present a vision of the future that is inextricably tied to an exploration of humanity that is more contemplative and comparative than traditional science fiction. The combination of the existential nature of this current trend in science fiction with the genre’s ability to manifest these abstract concepts in a generic environment that is historically focused on new frontiers and ideas creates a powerful set of media texts that ask audiences to contemplate what it means to exist, think, and connect as human beings. Scholars of media studies, film studies, television studies, genre studies, and philosophy will find this book particularly useful.

Science Fiction as Existentialism

Author : Colin Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction as Existentialism written by Colin Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Around the Outsider

Author : Colin Stanley
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1846946689
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book Around the Outsider written by Colin Stanley and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1956, aged just 24, Colin Wilson achieved success and overnight fame with his philosophical study of alienation and transcendence in modern literature and thought, The Outsider. Fifty-four years on, and never out of print in English, the book is still widely read and discussed, having been translated into over thirty languages. In a remarkably prolific career, Wilson, a true polymath, has since written over 170 titles: novels, plays and non-fiction on a variety of subjects. This volume brings together twenty essays by scholars of Colin Wilson's work worldwide and is published in his honour to mark the author's 80th birthday. Each contributor has provided an essay on their favourite Wilson book (or the one they consider to be the most significant). The result is a varied and stimulating assessment of Wilson's writings on philosophy, psychology, literature, criminology and the occult with critical appraisals of four of his most thought-provoking novels. Altogether a fitting tribute to a writer

Science Fiction and Psychology

Author : Gavin Miller
Publisher : Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies
ISBN 13 : 1789620600
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction and Psychology written by Gavin Miller and published by Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The psychologist may appear in science fiction as the herald of utopia or dystopia; literary studies have used psychoanalytic theories to interpret science fiction; and psychology has employed science fiction as an educational medium. Science Fiction and Psychology goes beyond such incidental observations and engagements to offer an in-depth exploration of science fiction literature's varied use of psychological discourses, beginning at the birth of modern psychology in the late nineteenth century and concluding with the ascendance of neuroscience in the late twentieth century. Rather than dwelling on psychoanalytic readings, this literary investigation combines with history of psychology to offer attentive textual readings that explore five key psychological schools: evolutionary psychology, psychoanalysis, behaviourism, existential-humanism, and cognitivism. The varied functions of psychological discourses in science fiction are explored, whether to popularise and prophesy, to imagine utopia or dystopia, to estrange our everyday reality, to comment on science fiction itself, or to abet (or resist) the spread of psychological wisdom. Science Fiction and Psychology also considers how psychology itself has made use of science fiction in order to teach, to secure legitimacy as a discipline, and to comment on the present.

The Philosophy of Paranoia

Author : Jack R. Ernest
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9780244983451
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Paranoia written by Jack R. Ernest and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short stories contains six stories that revolve around science-fiction and existential themes. In one story, the unnamed narrator who lives in solitude in the wilderness, discusses his life of seclusion. In another story, a planet called Elysium is the last refuge of mankind. The stories encompass themes of alienation and existentialism.

Gothic Science Fiction

Author : S. MacArthur
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137389273
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Gothic Science Fiction written by S. MacArthur and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic Science Fiction explores the fascinating world of gothic influenced science fiction. From Frankenstein to Doctor Who and from H. G Wells to Stephen King, the book charts the rise of a genre and follows the descent into darkness that consumes it.

Cybernetic-Existentialism

Author : Steve Dixon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042963238X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Cybernetic-Existentialism written by Steve Dixon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory. It argues that fusing perspectives from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from the ‘universal science’ of cybernetics provides a new analytical lens and deconstructive methodology to critique art. In this study, Steve Dixon examines how a range of artists’ works reveal the ideas of Existentialist philosophers including Kierkegaard, Camus, de Beauvoir, and Sartre on freedom, being and nothingness, eternal recurrence, the absurd, and being-for-others. Simultaneously, these artworks are shown to engage in complex explorations of concepts proposed by cyberneticians including Wiener, Shannon, and Bateson on information theory and ‘noise’, feedback loops, circularity, adaptive ecosystems, autopoiesis, and emergence. Dixon’s groundbreaking book demonstrates how fusing insights and knowledge from these two fields can throw new light on pressing issues within contemporary arts and culture, including authenticity, angst and alienation, homeostasis, radical politics, and the human as system.

Perpetual Existentialism

Author : Gordon Sean Mcwhorter
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781478102786
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Perpetual Existentialism written by Gordon Sean Mcwhorter and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perpetual Existentialism is a book of fiction and truth that leads down the rabbit hole of multiple stories to help those who know death is near.

Modern Science Fiction: A Critical Analysis

Author : James Gunn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476673195
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Modern Science Fiction: A Critical Analysis written by James Gunn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Gunn--one of the founding figures of science fiction scholarship and teaching--wrote in 1951 what is likely the first master's thesis on modern science fiction. Portions were in the short-lived pulp magazine Dynamic but it has otherwise remained unavailable. Here in its first full publication, the thesis explores many of the classic Golden Age stories of the 1940s and the critical perspective that informed Gunn's essential genre history Alternate Worlds and his anthology series The Road to Science Fiction. The editor's introduction and commentary show the historical significance of Gunn's work and its relevance to today's science fiction studies.

Walter Tevis Sci-Fi Novels

Author : Walter Tevis
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795351313
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Walter Tevis Sci-Fi Novels written by Walter Tevis and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three science fiction novels from the Nebula Award–nominated author of The Hustler and The Color of Money. The Man Who Fell to Earth After his home planet is devastated by war, an alien disguised as a human comes to Earth on a mission to save his people. He begins amassing wealth needed to build a spacecraft to bring his people to join him, but his plans get sidelined when he descends into alcoholism. Mockingbird On a post-apocalyptic Earth where humanity has suffered devastating losses, people are drugged from childhood on, there is no art, and reading is illegal. A suicidal machine runs the world, while the passion between two humans provides the only hope for humankind. The Steps of the Sun When the world’s richest man travels to the stars in search of the mineral wealth America needs to get it out of an energy crisis, he finds more than he bargains for—and gets more than he ever believed was possible . . . “Among the finest science fiction novels . . . . Just beneath the surface it might be read as a parable of the Fifties and of the Cold War. Beneath that as an evocation of existential loneliness, a Christian fable, a parable of the artist. Above all, perhaps, as the wisest, truest representation of alcoholism ever written.” —James Sallis, Fantasy & Science Fiction on The Man Who Fell to Earth “A moral tale that has elements of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Superman, and Star Wars” —Los Angeles Times Book Review on Mockingbird “Engaging and effortlessly readable.” —Publishers Weekly on The Steps of the Sun

2052

Author : Jack R. Ernest
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9780244609566
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book 2052 written by Jack R. Ernest and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inflated novella contains three distinct stories that are intertwined with each other. In one story, the world is on the brink of destruction with an asteroid heading for collision. Law and order breaks down and man tries desperately to maintain survival by sending space ships to the stars, hoping to find a new home. In the second story, three friends embark on a crusade to conquer the film industry in Hollywood. They laugh, smoke, and drink, and try to forget their failures. In the third story, a man keeps a diary of his time in a psychiatric hospital. This work of philosophical fiction deals with existential and nihilistic themes.

Existential Threats

Author : Lisa Vox
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249194
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Existential Threats written by Lisa Vox and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author assembles a wide range of media—science fiction movies, biblical tractates, rapture fiction—to develop a critical history of the apocalyptic imagination from the late 1800s to the present.--Publisher's description.

Science Fact and Science Fiction

Author : Brian M. Stableford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415974607
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Science Fact and Science Fiction written by Brian M. Stableford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Existentialism For Dummies

Author : Christopher Panza
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470436891
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Existentialism For Dummies written by Christopher Panza and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what the phrase “God is dead” means? You’ll find out in Existentialism For Dummies, a handy guide to Nietzsche, Sartre, and Kierkegaard’s favorite philosophy. See how existentialist ideas have influenced everything from film and literature to world events and discover whether or not existentialism is still relevant today. You’ll find an introduction to existentialism and understand how it fits into the history of philosophy. This insightful guide will expose you to existentialism’s ideas about the absurdity of life and the ways that existentialism guides politics, solidarity, and respect for others. There’s even a section on religious existentialism. You’ll be able to reviewkey existential themes and writings. Find out how to: Trace the influence of existentialism Distinguish each philosopher’s specific ideas Explain what it means to say that “God is dead” See culture through an existentialist lens Understand the existentialist notion of time, finitude, and death Navigate the absurdity of life Master the art of individuality Complete with lists of the ten greatest existential films, ten great existential aphorisms, and ten common misconceptions about existentialism, Existentialism For Dummies is your one-stop guide to a very influential school of thought.

Roche Limit Volume 3

Author : Michael Moreci
Publisher : Image Comics
ISBN 13 : 9781632158352
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book Roche Limit Volume 3 written by Michael Moreci and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A missing person leads to discoveries about the most dangerous place in the galaxy: Roche Limit.

Science Fiction and The Abolition of Man

Author : Mark J. Boone
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498232353
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction and The Abolition of Man written by Mark J. Boone and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis's masterpiece in ethics and the philosophy of science, warns of the danger of combining modern moral skepticism with the technological pursuit of human desires. The end result is the final destruction of human nature. From Brave New World to Star Trek, from steampunk to starships, science fiction film has considered from nearly every conceivable angle the same nexus of morality, technology, and humanity of which C. S. Lewis wrote. As a result, science fiction film has unintentionally given us stunning depictions of Lewis's terrifying vision of the future. In Science Fiction Film and the Abolition of Man, scholars of religion, philosophy, literature, and film explore the connections between sci-fi film and the three parts of Lewis's book: how sci-fi portrays "Men without Chests" incapable of responding properly to moral good, how it teaches the Tao or "The Way," and how it portrays "The Abolition of Man."