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Author : Colin Greenland
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Entropy Exhibition written by Colin Greenland and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin Greenland
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575127597
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)
Download or read book The Entropy Exhibition written by Colin Greenland and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Moorcock edited and produced the magazine New Worlds from 1964 to 1973. Within its pages he encouraged the development of new kinds of popular writing out of the genre of science fiction, energetically reworking traditional themes, images and styles as a radical response to the crisis of modern fiction. The essential paradox of the new writing lay in its fascination with 'entropy' - the universal and irreversible decline of energy into disorder. Entropy provides the key both to the anarchic vitality of the magazine and to its neglect by critics and academics, as well as its intimate connection with other cultural experiments of the 1960s. The fiction of the New Worlds writers, who included Brian Aldiss, J. G. Ballard and Moorcock himself, was not concerned with the far future and outer space, but with the ambiguous and unstable conditions of the modern world. As Ballard put it: 'The only truly alien planet is Earth.' The Entropy Exhibition is the first critical assessment of the literary movement known as 'New Wave' science fiction. It examines the history of the magazine and its background in the popular imagination of the 1960s, traces the strange history of sex in science fiction and analyses development in stylistic theory and practice. Detailed attention is given to each of the three principal contributors to New Worlds - Aldiss, Ballard and Moorcock. Moorcock himself is most commonly judged by his commercial fantasy novels instead of by the magazine he supported with them, but here the balance is at last redressed: New Worlds emerges as nothing less than a focus and a metaphor for many of the transformations of English and American literature in the past two decades.
Author : Colin Greenland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (826 download)
Download or read book The Entropy Exhibition written by Colin Greenland and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin Greenland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Entropy Exhibition written by Colin Greenland and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Colin Greenland
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 0575119535
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Take Back Plenty written by Colin Greenland and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-moving space adventure featuring mysterious aliens, a journey to a de-populated planet, a mad run from space cops, a ship captain in trouble, and her AI (Artificially Intelligent) companion/ship's computer. It is carnival time on Mars, but Tabitha Jute isn't partying. She is in hiding from the law, penniless and about to lose her livelihood and her best friend, the space barge "Alice Liddell". Then, the intriguing Marco Metz offers her some money to take him to Plenty, and then the adventure begins. Winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of the year and the British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel of the year--the only book ever to win both prestigious British awards. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best novel, 1991 Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 1991
Author : Alex Wellerstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022602038X
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Restricted Data written by Alex Wellerstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nuclear weapons, since their conception, have been the subject of secrecy. In the months after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American scientific establishment, the American government, and the American public all wrestled with what was called the "problem of secrecy," wondering not only whether secrecy was appropriate and effective as a means of controlling this new technology but also whether it was compatible with the country's core values. Out of a messy context of propaganda, confusion, spy scares, and the grave counsel of competing groups of scientists, what historian Alex Wellerstein calls a "new regime of secrecy" was put into place. It was unlike any other previous or since. Nuclear secrets were given their own unique legal designation in American law ("restricted data"), one that operates differently than all other forms of national security classification and exists to this day. Drawing on massive amounts of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time at the author's request, Restricted Data is a narrative account of nuclear secrecy and the tensions and uncertainty that built as the Cold War continued. In the US, both science and democracy are pitted against nuclear secrecy, and this makes its history uniquely compelling and timely"--
Author : Sherry Ginn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476600864
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Sex Is Out of This World written by Sherry Ginn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Science fiction" can be translated into "real unreality." More than a genre like fantasy, which creates entirely new realms of possibility, science fiction constructs its possibilities from what is real, from what is, indeed, possible, or conceivably so. This collection, then, looks to understand and explore the "unreal reality," to note ways in which our culture's continually changing and evolving mores of sex and sexuality are reflected in, dissected by, and deconstructed through the genre of science fiction. This book is a collection of new essays, with the general objective of filling a gap in the literature about sex and science fiction (although some work has gone before, none of it is recent). The essays herein explore the myriad ways in which authors--regardless of format (print, film, television, etc.)--envision very different beings expressing this most fundamental of human behaviors.
Author : Philip Tew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135001169X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The 1960s written by Philip Tew and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during and leading up to the 1960s shape modern British fiction? The 1960s were the "swinging decade†?: a newly energised youth culture went hand-in-hand with new technologies, expanding educational opportunities, new social attitudes and profound political differences between the generations. This volume explores the ways in which these apparently seismic changes were reflected in British fiction of the decade. Chapters cover feminist writing that fused the personal and the political, gay, lesbian and immigrant voices and the work of visionary experimental and science fiction writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, this volume covers such writers as J.G. Ballard, Anthony Burgess, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, John Fowles, Christopher Isherwood, Doris Lessing, Michael Moorcock and V.S. Naipaul.
Author : Lloyd Godman
Publisher : PHOTO - synthesis Media
ISBN 13 : 0645715190
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Entropy written by Lloyd Godman and published by PHOTO - synthesis Media. This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This EBook has been specifically designed as an EPublication and is optimized for viewing on Thorium Reader. Thorium Reader is the free EPUB reader of choice for Windows 10 and 11, MacOS and Linux. https://www.edrlab.org/software/thorium-reader/ Entropy is Lloyd Godman’s photographic response to the devastating Victorian Black Saturday bushfire in Australia of February 2009, near where he lives at St Andrews. It does not deal with the impact on humanity with photographs of burnt cars and destroyed houses, but focuses entirely on plants and the regeneration of the bush. His ongoing intrigue with light and photosynthesis is fully engaged in this project photographing the revival of the bush from grey powder ash and black tree trunks to thick verdant green bush over a period of years. The EBook follows the evolution of the project from taking a few single photographs, through to the many thousands of triptychs, and beyond to the giant photographic intricate mosaics and the innovative and complex self-generating video projection work. It documents the creative process from taking a few photographs to the realization of a significant body of work and a major exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography. In the process it offers information on creating triptychs and panorama images, the power of wide angle photographic perspectives. For the botanist it offers a visual insight to how nature can respond after an extreme fire event, which species of plants recover and the rate of recovery, while for fire fighters it presents a visual clue to how the bush burns. The project is a metaphor for his concept of the planet as a gigantic abstract photosensitive emulsion. “the largest photosensitive emulsion we know of is the planet earth. As vegetation grows, dies back, changes colour with the seasons, the “photographic image” that is our planet alters. Increasingly human intervention plays a larger role in transforming the image of the globe we inhabit”. Lloyd Godman The work acts as witness to the green spirit within the earth that overcomes a grey ghost. The macro becomes micro and visa versa, forbidding monotones are replaced with subtlety of texture and colour, simplicity is replaced with complexity. Paradoxically, both order and chaos is found in ash and regenerated emerald bush.
Author : Derek Littlewood
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042000322
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Impossibility Fiction written by Derek Littlewood and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impossibility fiction is an 'intergenre' that has recently been the resort of many writers searching for new ways of understanding and expressing the real world of the imagination, making use of fantasy, alternative history and science fiction. Coping with ideas that are both impossible and realistically constructed is the ultimate contemporary challenge of our technology. The chapters of this book move towards establishing appropriate readings that allow contemporary readers to negotiate unreality, a skill that the end of the millennium is making inevitably necessary. Such strategies have long been the preserve of literary and cultural study, and here a number of well-regarded scholars and some new to the field make their contribution to an area that has become increasingly important in recent years. From Mary Shelley to Philip K. Dick, Iain M. Banks to J.G. Ballard, taking in African-American science fiction, Jurassic Park, and Kurt Vonnegut, and exploring issues of alternative history and ideology, feminism, the holocaust, characterisation, and impossible geography, this collection is an important source-book for all those interested in the literature, culture and philosophy of realistic impossible worlds.
Author : Iain Sinclair
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838715177
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Crash written by Iain Sinclair and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Cronenberg's Crash (1996) brought down a storm of controversy and opprobrium when it was first screened in London. And yet it's a cool, controlled, formal film, unsensational, more analytic than titillating, a brilliant exposé of modern pathologies. It has almost none of the violence and explicit sexual content of the J.G. Ballard novel from which it is adapted. What is the relationship between Ballard himself and the character 'James Ballard' in Crash? In this book, which includes an exclusive and revealing interview with Ballard, Sinclair explores the uncanny temporal loop which connects film and novel. If Cronenberg's 'adapted' Crash, he also absorbed it, ingested it, made it into something new. But, on the other hand, the novel controls the film, or uses the film to disguise its truly subversive intent. And, for Sinclair, there are more startling permutations still. To what extent, for example, is Crash a premonition of some of the more remarkable media events of recent times?
Author : Stefano Rabolli Pansera
Publisher : AA Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781907896064
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Beyond Entropy written by Stefano Rabolli Pansera and published by AA Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text marks the conclusion of the 'Beyond Entropy' cluster, and is produced in tandem with an exhibition on show at the AA in May 2011.
Author : The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030923819
Total Pages : 1597 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book TMS 2022 151st Annual Meeting & Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings written by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 1597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents papers from the 151st Annual Meeting & Exhibition of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.
Author : David M. Higgins
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609387856
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Reverse Colonization written by David M. Higgins and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reverse colonization narratives are stories like H. G. Wells’s War of the Worlds, in which technologically superior Martians invade and colonize England. They ask Western audiences to imagine what it’s like to be the colonized rather than the colonizers. David Higgins argues that although some reverse colonization stories are thoughtful and provocative, reverse colonization fantasy has also led to the prevalence of a very dangerous kind of science fictional thinking in our current political culture. It has become popular among groups such as anti-feminists, white supremacists, and far-right reactionaries to appropriate a sense of righteous, anti-imperial victimhood—the sense that white men, in particular, are somehow colonized victims fighting an insurgent resistance against an oppressive establishment. Nothing could be timelier, as an armed far-right mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an effort to stop the presidential election from being “stolen from them.” Higgins shows that this reverse colonization stance depends upon a science fictional logic that achieved dominance within imperial fantasy during the 1960s and has continued to gain momentum ever since. By identifying with fantastic forms of victimhood, subjects who already enjoy social hegemony are able to justify economic inequality, expansions of police and military power, climatological devastation, new articulations of racism, and countless other forms of violence—all purportedly in the name of security, self-defense, and self-protection.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Foundation written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Baxter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230346480
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book J. G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions written by J. Baxter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an extensive reassessment of dominant and recurring themes in Ballard's writing, including historical violence, pornography, post 9/11 politics, and urban space, this book also engages with Ballard's 'late' modernism; his experimentation with style and form; and his sustained interests in psychology and psychopathology.
