World weavers : globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution / / edited by Wong Kin Yuen, Gary Westfahl and Amy Kit-sze Chan.
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Year of Publication: | 2005 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | xi, 307 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- From semaphors and steamships to servers and spaceships: the saga of globalization, science fiction, and the cybernetic revolution / Gary Westfahl
- Going mobile: tradition, technology, and the cultural monad / George Slusser
- Urge et Orbe: a prehistory of the postmodern world city / Howard V. Hendrix
- 2001, or a cyberpalace odyssey: toward the ideographic imagination / Takayuki Tatsumi
- The genealogy of the cyborg in Japanese popular culture / Sharalyn Orbaugh
- Hermeneutics and Taiwan science fiction / Wong Kin Yuen
- Is utopia obsolete? Imploding boundaries in Neal Stephenson's The diamond age / N. Katherine Hayles
- Tales of futures passed: the Kipling continuum and other lost worlds of science fiction / Andy Sawyer
- Globalization in Japanese science fiction, 1900 and 1963: The seabed warship and its re-interpretation . Thonmas Schnellbacher
- The limits of "humanity" in comparative perspective: Cordwainer Smith and the Soushenji / Lisa Raphals
- The idea of the Asian in Philip K. Dick's The man in the high castle / Jake Jakaitis
- Godzilla's travels: the evolution of a globalized gargantuan / Gary Westfahl
- Black secret technology: African technological subjects / Gerald Gaylard
- The teeth of the new cockatoo: mutation and trauma in Greg Egan's Teranesia / Chris Palmer
- When cyberfeminism meets Chinese philosophy: computer, weaving and women / Amy Kit-sze Chan
- Hollywood enters the dragon / Veronique Flambard-Weisbart
- Romeo must die: action and agency in Hollywood and Hong Kong action films / Susanne Rieser and Susanne Lummerding.