World Weavers : Globalization, Science Fiction, and The Cybernetic Revolution

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World Weavers : Globalization, Science Fiction, and The Cybernetic Revolution

出版社：香港大學出版社
出版日期：2005-11-01
語言：繁體書

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型式	價格	供應商	所屬目錄
	$ 706	TAAZE 讀冊生活	中文書

圖書名稱：World Weavers : Globalization, Science Fiction, and The Cybernetic Revolution

World Weavers is the first ever study on the relationship between globalization and science fiction. Scientific innovations provide citizens of different nations with a unique common ground and the means to establish new connections with distant lands. This study attempts to investigate how our world has grown more and more interconnected not only due to technological advances, but also to a shared interest in those advances and to what they might lead to in the future.
Science fiction has long been both literally and metaphorically linked to the emerging global village. It now takes on the task of exploring how the cybernetic revolution might transform the world and keep it one step ahead of the real world, despite ever-accelerating developments. As residents of a world that is undeniably globalized, science-fictional and virtual, it is incumbent on us to fully understand just how we came to live in such a world, and to envisage where this world may be heading next. World Weavers represents one small but significant step toward achieving such knowledge.

作者簡介：

Wong Kin Yuen is Director of the Technoscience Culture Research and Development Centre, and Professor and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature, at Hong Kong Shue Yan College. Gary Westfahl is Co-ordinator of English Programs in the Language Learning Center at the University of California, Riverside. Amy Kit-sze Chan is Assistant Director of the Technoscience Culture Research and Development Centre, and Assistant Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, at Hong Kong Shue Yan College.

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名人推薦：'World Weavers makes a timely and significant contribution to the critical literature on contemporary science fiction and globalisation. It includes a broad range of theoretical approaches and an excellent overview of the field, and should appeal to readers interested in critical accounts of the genre, as well as the interdisciplinary crossovers to be found in cyberculture.' - Jenny Wolmark, Department of Design, University of Lincoln, UK, and author of Aliens and Others: Science Ficti...

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