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1	Le devenir-autre de l'utopie : représentations d'un imaginaire politique conflictuel dans le Cycle de la Culture d'Iain M. Banks / The becoming-other of utopia : representations of a conflictual political imaginary in Iain M. Banks' Culture novels Carabédian, Alice 23 September 2016 (has links) Il est difficile de ne pas concevoir l’utopie du côté de la rupture : division spatiale originelle, tension temporelle, désaccord critique. Pourtant les théories et attaques des anti-utopistes voient dans l’utopie un monde illusoire voire inutile, clos, signant la fin des temps et potentiellement dangereux pour l’humanité. Et si l’utopie n’était pas le programme de la société meilleure à réaliser, mais bien au contraire une pratique transgressive, une apparition de discontinuité dans notre « ici et maintenant », un excès qui vient doubler le réel plutôt qu’un possible à réaliser dans le futur ?Iain M. Banks est un auteur de science-fiction contemporain original et audacieux, qui, conscient des dangers inhérents à l’utopie, a su jouer avec ces limites pour proposer une société utopique totalement inédite : cette utopie s’appelle la Culture. Comment réinvestir singulièrement l’utopie ? Comment la science-fiction – et plus précisément le genre du space-opéra – permet-elle de mettre en scène des problématiques politiques dignes d’un intérêt philosophique ?Iain M. Banks imagine une utopie tout entière tournée vers la rencontre, la proximité, la nouveauté. Subvertissant les traditions utopique et science-fictionnelle, le Cycle de la Culture est traversé par l’altérité et le conflit. Ces deux caractéristiques sont les fils directeurs de cette thèse qui vise à reconceptualiser l’utopie dans une perspective philosophique, politique et littéraire, en travaillant les représentations du discours utopique au sein du laboratoire science fictionnel.Ce discours prend ici trois formes : dystopie, hétérotopie, (e)utopie. Ensemble, elles dessinent une « culture utopique radicale ». / It is difficult not to conceive utopia as a rupture: through original spatial division, temporal tension, critical discordance. Yet, theories and attacks from anti-utopians consider utopia as an illusory world, even useless, enclosed, marking the end of times and potentially dangerous for humanity. What if utopia was not the programme of a better society to realize,but instead a transgressive practice, an apparition of discontinuity in our « now and here », an excess which overtakes reality rather than a possible that has yet to be realized in the future? Iain M. Banks is a contemporary, original and audacious science-fiction author, who,aware of the inherent dangers of utopia, has known how to challenge these limits in order to provide a completely unique utopian society: this utopia is called the Culture. How to critically reinvest utopia? How can science fiction – and more precisely the genre of space-opera – depict political issues, worthy of philosophical enquiry? Iain M. Banks imagines a space for utopia, entirely oriented towards encounter,proximity, and novelty. Subverting science-fictional and utopian traditions, notions of alterity and conflict span the Culture Cycle. These two characteristics are the guiding principles of this dissertation, which aims at reconceptualizing utopia through a philosophical, political and literary perspective, by way of analysing the representations of utopian discourses within the science-fictional laboratory. These discourses take three shapes: dystopia, heterotopia, (e)utopia. Together, they outline a “radical utopian culture”. Cycle de la Culture Utopia Science fiction Iain M. Banks Politics Conflict Alterity Dystopia Heterotopia
2	Bodies In and Out of Information: Consumption and Life in the Virtual Merryman, Walter Emerson 06 August 2014 (has links) No description available. Literature Technology Playstation posthumanism posthuman subjectivity science fiction technology Iain M Banks
3	Becoming Other: Virtual Realities in Contemporary Science Fiction Franks, Jamie N 17 March 2015 (has links) The purpose of this thesis was to explore the boundary between human and other created by virtual worlds in contemporary science fiction novels. After a close reading of the three novels: Surface Detail, Existence, and Lady of Mazes, and the application of contemporary literary theories, the boundary presented itself and led to the discovery of where the human becomes other. The human becomes other when it becomes lost to the virtual world and no longer exists or interacts with material reality. Each of the primary texts exhibits both virtual reality and humanity in different ways, and each is explored to find where humanity falls apart. Overall, when these theories are applied to real life there is no real way to avoid the potential for fully immersive virtual worlds, but there are ways to avoid their alienating effects. virtual reality science fiction iain banks iain m. banks david brin karl schroeder lady of mazes existence surface detail literary criticism jean luc nancy Other English Language and Literature
4	Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction Long, Bruce Raymond January 2009 (has links) Master of Philosophy (MPhil) / Informationist Science Fiction theory provides a way of analysing science fiction texts and narratives in order to demonstrate on an informational basis the uniqueness of science fiction proper as a mode of fiction writing. The theoretical framework presented can be applied to all types of written texts, including non-fictional texts. In "Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction" the author applies the theoretical framework and its specific methods and principles to various contemporary science fiction works, including works by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and Vernor Vinge. The theoretical framework introduces a new informational theoretic re-framing of existing science fiction literary theoretic posits such as Darko Suvin's novum, the mega-text as conceived of by Damien Broderick, and the work of Samuel R Delany in investigating the subjunctive mood in SF. An informational aesthetics of SF proper is established, and the influence of analytic philosophy - especially modal logic - is investigated. The materialist foundations of the metaphysical outlook of SF proper is investigated with a view to elucidating the importance of the relationship between scientific materialism and SF. SF is presented as The Fiction of Veridical, Counterfactual and Heterogeneous Information. Science Fiction Information Theory Informationism Anti-simulacra Simulacra Information Types Veridical information Literary theory Pseudo-information William Gibson Iain M Banks Neal Stephenson Alastair Reynolds Science Fiction Theory Novum Pseudo-novum Character-novum Auto-novum Pseudo novum character novum Darko Suvin N. Katherine Hayles William Paulson High information Claude E Shannon Adrian Moles Hyperreal Hyperreality Hyperreal information Samuel R Delany Damien Broderick David Lewis Transrealism Transrealist Manifesto SF Mega-text SF Codon Thomas Pynchon Information Synthesis Synthesis Multivariate nexus Heterogeneous information profile Cognitive Aesthetic Complexity Aesthetic of Complexity
5	Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction Long, Bruce Raymond January 2009 (has links) Master of Philosophy (MPhil) / Informationist Science Fiction theory provides a way of analysing science fiction texts and narratives in order to demonstrate on an informational basis the uniqueness of science fiction proper as a mode of fiction writing. The theoretical framework presented can be applied to all types of written texts, including non-fictional texts. In "Informationist Science Fiction Theory and Informationist Science Fiction" the author applies the theoretical framework and its specific methods and principles to various contemporary science fiction works, including works by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and Vernor Vinge. The theoretical framework introduces a new informational theoretic re-framing of existing science fiction literary theoretic posits such as Darko Suvin's novum, the mega-text as conceived of by Damien Broderick, and the work of Samuel R Delany in investigating the subjunctive mood in SF. An informational aesthetics of SF proper is established, and the influence of analytic philosophy - especially modal logic - is investigated. The materialist foundations of the metaphysical outlook of SF proper is investigated with a view to elucidating the importance of the relationship between scientific materialism and SF. SF is presented as The Fiction of Veridical, Counterfactual and Heterogeneous Information. Science Fiction Information Theory Informationism Anti-simulacra Simulacra Information Types Veridical information Literary theory Pseudo-information William Gibson Iain M Banks Neal Stephenson Alastair Reynolds Science Fiction Theory Novum Pseudo-novum Character-novum Auto-novum Pseudo novum character novum Darko Suvin N. Katherine Hayles William Paulson High information Claude E Shannon Adrian Moles Hyperreal Hyperreality Hyperreal information Samuel R Delany Damien Broderick David Lewis Transrealism Transrealist Manifesto SF Mega-text SF Codon Thomas Pynchon Information Synthesis Synthesis Multivariate nexus Heterogeneous information profile Cognitive Aesthetic Complexity Aesthetic of Complexity

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