Zepke Stephen: Head in the Stars. Essays on Science Fiction
Science fiction concerns the future, of course, this being its simple, organising essence. But science fiction wants to do more than just be in the future, it wants to predict the future, to reveal its horrors and beauty, its similarities and difference, and more importantly, tell us about all the cool stuff. This means that the ‘future’ science fiction explores has changed a lot over the years, and has a fascinating past, one with a twistier time-line than a Phillip K. Dick story […]. But this book is not a history of science fiction, because although historical context plays a part – the Cold War from which alien arrival films emerge, or our biopolitical present in which interface films become symptomatic – this book is most concerned with science fiction futures that crack history open, allowing something unaccountable to emerge, something singular and new. As a result, this book sees the ‘new’ and its ‘future’ in science fiction in a very different way from Darko Suvin and Frederic Jameson, whose astoundingly influential theory sees science fiction futures as forms of ‘cognitive estrangement’ that seek to reflect on the present that produces them. [from the Introduction] Layout: Dejan Dragosavac Ruta 260 pages [Paperback : 13,5 x 19 cm] Publisher: Multimedijalni institut [Zagreb, Croatia] ISBN: 978-953-7372-67-5 — the book is available via Amazon: https://www.amazon.de/dp/9537372677/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=
Science fiction concerns the future, of course, this being its simple, organising essence. But science fiction wants to do more than just be in the future, it wants to predict the future, to reveal its horrors and beauty, its similarities and difference, and more importantly, tell us about all the cool stuff. This means that the ‘future’ science fiction explores has changed a lot over the years, and has a fascinating past, one with a twistier time-line than a Phillip K. Dick story […].
But this book is not a history of science fiction, because although historical context plays a part – the Cold War from which alien arrival films emerge, or our biopolitical present in which interface films become symptomatic – this book is most concerned with science fiction futures that crack history open, allowing something unaccountable to emerge, something singular and new. As a result, this book sees the ‘new’ and its ‘future’ in science fiction in a very different way from Darko Suvin and Frederic Jameson, whose astoundingly influential theory sees science fiction futures as forms of ‘cognitive estrangement’ that seek to reflect on the present that produces them. [from the Introduction]
Layout: Dejan Dragosavac Ruta
260 pages [Paperback : 13,5 x 19 cm]
Publisher: Multimedijalni institut [Zagreb, Croatia]
ISBN: 978-953-7372-67-5
— the book is available via Amazon: https://www.amazon.de/dp/9537372677/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=
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tearfully declares ‘how fuckin’ amazin’ it is that I got you’,
and goes on to explain;
when I’m messin’ around with someone else, it’s like
you’re always tellin’ me, from that book of yours, that
I’m fuckin’ with another part of you or the world or
the universe and – I guess – God. ‘Cause everything’s
a part of everything else, and that’s why I always get
home extra horny. And I always got you there to hump
and hang onto your dick and nuzzle on your nuts and
stick my fingers up your asshole and smell your farts
under the covers and take a leak in your mouth and hug
onto you and breathe in how your breath smells in the
mornin’ before you wake up and lick inside your nose
and rub my dick all over your butt and gettin’ it in and
hangin’ onto you. Or just suck your damned dick. And
its mine to hold onto pretty much whenever I want.”
Another breath, “Wow...” (678)
This list defining the affectual assemblage of Eric and
Shit’s relationship is an often repeated device that focusses
our attention on physical actions and experiences,
but encompasses in its implicitly open and infinite
ramifications a world, perhaps a universe. 111 The minutiae
of empirical experience is inseparable from the feelings
it evokes, so when it comes from the one I love, a fart
gives me joy and increases my power to act, increases my
knowledge. There is, of course, something humorous about
this, but the joke also carries a profound philosophical
point; from the most base can come the most joy, the
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