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The Black Mirror and Other Stories
Handsomely equipped with a comprehensive introductory historical essay, editor's notes and selected bibliography, this distinguished anthology is a model of genre research. These previously untranslated stories, published from 1871 onward, offer reading virtually unknown to most American (and many German) readers. Some authors combine scientific and philosophical issues, like Kurd Lasswitz in his witty tale "To the Absolute Zero of Existence: A Story from 2371, " while others, as in Erik Simon's 1983 title story, pose psychological puzzles involving alien phenomena. Though the earlier stories in particular demand painstaking reading, all of them repay it with rewarding insights into German and Austrian culture and the many possible uses and misuses of science.
LOST in Media
The television series LOST initiated a wide-ranging academic debate which centered on its narrative and temporal complexity, while also addressing the massive expansion into other media and consequently crossing established genre categories. This expansion poses the essential question about the status of the original medium (television) within recent multiple media configurations. Can LOST be regarded as a symptom of television in the process of media change? What is the relation between LOST's temporality and that of television in general? And how can LOST be understood as a phenomenon of mediatized worlds? The contributions in this book examine these questions. The book's editors are members of the project "TV Series as Reflection and Projection of Change," which is part of the DFG Priority Program 1505: "Mediatized Worlds". (Series: Medien'welten. Braunschweiger Schriften zur Medienkultur - Vol. 19)
The World Hitler Never Made
A fascinating 2005 study of the place of alternate histories of Nazism within Western popular culture.
Becoming Ray Bradbury
Becoming Ray Bradbury chronicles the making of an iconic American writer by exploring Ray Bradbury's childhood and early years of his long life in fiction, film, television, radio, and theater. Jonathan R. Eller measures the impact of the authors, artists, illustrators, and filmmakers who stimulated Bradbury's imagination throughout his first three decades. Unprecedented access to Bradbury's personal papers and other private collections provides insight into his emerging talent through his unpublished correspondence, his rare but often insightful notes on writing, and his interactions with those who mentored him during those early years. Beginning with his childhood in Waukegan, Illinois, an...
Utopias in Nonfiction Film
'Comprehensive and thorough, Utopias in Nonfiction Film takes a new direction in its surprise application to documentary that has the potential to shake up the field.'- Jane Gaines, Columbia University, USA 'Spiegel has introduced a new sub-genre to utopian studies, the documentary film. The book covers an impressive range of films, making the book one of the few truly international and comparative works in utopian studies.'- Lyman Tower Sargent, University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA "Simon Spiegel’s magisterial overview of utopian documentaries and nonfiction films is a treasure trove of information and unearths many forgotten and half-forgotten films, providing perceptive discussions of ...
Militarizing Outer Space
Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare and violence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third and final volume in the groundbreaking European Astroculture trilogy, Militarizing Outer Space zooms in on the interplay between security, technopolitics and knowledge from the 1920s through the 1980s. Often hailed as the site of heavenly utopias and otherworldly salvation, outer space transformed from a promised sanctuary to a present threat, where the battles of the future were to be waged. Astroculture proved instrumental in fathoming forms and functions of warfare’s futures past, both on earth and in space. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current American space force rhetorics.
We Are All Astronauts
"We are all astronauts", the American architect and thinker Richard Buckminster Fuller wrote in 1968 in his book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, where he compared Earth to a spaceship, provided only with exhaustible resources while flying through space. These words show the presence the phenomenon of the astronaut and the cosmonaut had in the public mind from the second half of the twentieth century on: Buckminster Fuller was able to drive his point home by asking his audience to identify with one of the most prominent figures in the public sphere then: the space traveler. At the same time, Buckminster Fuller's words themselves seem to have played a significant role in further shaping the space-exploring human as a symbol and an image of humankind in general. The twelve contributions in this book by authors from the fields of literature, music, politics, history, the visual arts, film, computer games, comics, social sciences, and media theory track the development, changes and dynamics of this symbol by analyzing the various images of the astronaut and the cosmonaut as constructed throughout the different decades of space exploration, from its beginning to the present day.
Zweifelfischs Hirn. Materialien I
Erster von sieben Bänden (Materialien I bis Materialien VII), circa fünftausend Seiten: Ideen, Ursprünge, Quellen, Zitate, Paraphrasen, Bearbeitungen, Reflexionen. Prosa, Lyrik, Essays, Biographisches, Religion, Blasphemie, Philosophie, Ideologie, Anschauung, Kommunismus, Kapitalismus, Futurismus, Dadaismus, Ismen aller Art, Erotik, Liebe, Sexualität, Pornographie, Musik, Lieder, Songs, Stich- und Schlagwörter, Oberfläche, Tiefe, Ab- und Umwege, Notizen, Listen, Sudeleien et cetera, deren Verfasser: »Autor, Erzähler, Berichter, (innere) Schrei(b)er, Automat, Buntschriftsteller, Schwärmer, Enthusiast, Thaumaturg, (m)ein Binnenschilderer, der An(n)al(i/y)st, (m)ein Analytiker, das beobachtende Ich, der Leser, die Reflektorfigur, der Metaphrast, Tran(s)s(c/k)riptor, Transliterat, Prosopograph, Epitomator, Zwiebelfischer (FBI ewer zilches), sie sind alle ich, auch ich, nur ich.« (samt und sonders deskriptiv bekennend programmatisch unten auf S. 584 erwähnt). - Universum, enzyklopädische Werkstatt, Sammelsurium, Chaos, Entropie?
Andere Welten - Interviews zur Science Fiction - Band 3
Usch Kiausch lernte in ihrer langen Karriere als Journalistin, Autorin und Übersetzerin viele bedeutende Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller sowie Kolleginnen und Kollegen kennen und führte zahllose Interviews, die meisten davon auf den Jahreskonferenzen der »International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts« in Fort Lauderdale/Florida. Der abschließende Band der drei Bände umfassenden Reihe präsentiert unter anderem den Essay »Utopia und Post-Utopia«, zwölf Interviews sowie eine Erzählung von Usch Kiausch. Interviews in Band 3 mit: Frank Schätzing, Brian W. Aldiss, Philip José Farmer, Stephen R. Donaldson, Roger Corman, Michael Bishop, Robert Holdstock, Peter Straub, John Clute, David Hartwell und Christopher Priest.
Die Macht des Wortes oder: Die gefährlichste Waffe der Welt ist der Bleistift
Mit diesem Buch stellt der Autor ein sehr komplexes Thema verständlich dar: Die Macht des Wortes. Die ersten Soziologen und Philosophen wie Zarathustra, Buddha und Sokrates haben sich schon des gesprochenen, aber auch des geschriebenen Worts bedient. Und dies, um ihre Ideen zu entwickeln und weiterzutragen. Wie weit sie damit gekommen sind, wissen wir alle. Hier ist festzustellen, dass sowohl das Judentum, das Christentum und auch der Islam Religionen des Buches sind. Und wir wissen: ein Buch ohne Wörter ist nicht denkbar. Selbst die Ägypter haben zu ihrer Zeit durch Hieroglyphen ihre Praktiken verewigt. Krieg und Frieden wurden durch Worte entschieden. Worte befeuerten Revolutionen und Umstürze. Dialektik, Wortsprache und Rhetorik haben die gesamte Menschheitsgeschichte geprägt, wenn nicht sogar bestimmt. Daher ist es notwendig, dass die Jugend und jeder einzelne Erwachsene darin geschult wird, die Macht des Wortes zu erkennen und verantwortungsvoll zu nutzen.
