뒤로SF EXAM 1
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Sense of Wonder:
An emotional reaction of awe and awakening triggered by expanding your awareness of what is possible or confronting the vastness of space and time.
Novum
A new thing introduced into the textual world that serves as the catalyst for the different between the textual and the reader's worlds.
Cognitive Engagement
A literary genre driven by the combined presence of estrangement (distancing readers from their normal reality) and cognition (using a rational, understandable framework to make sense of that new world).
Extrapolation
A prediction, prophecy, prognostication. Making a scientific prediction about what the future might look like.
Transhumanism
A movement or concept exploring the enhancement of human physical and mental abilities through cutting-edge science and technology.
Singularity
The hypothetical point in the future where artificial intelligence becomes recursive self-improvement, radically changing human civilization.
First Contact
The historic initial meeting between humans and an extraterrestrial intelligent species.
Jules Verne wrote what book?
Journey to the Center of the Earth
(pg.26-28)
H. G. Wells wrote what book?
The Star
(pg.39-49)
E. M. Forster wrote what book?
The Machine Stops
(pg.50-78)
Edmond Hamilton wrote what book?
The Man Who Evolved
(pg.79-95)
Leslie F. Stone wrote what book?
The Conquest of Gola
(pg.96-109)
C. L. Moore wrote what book?
Shambleau
(pg.110-135)
Stanley G. Weinbleaum wrote what book?
A Martian Odyssey
(pg.136-159)
Sublime
A subgenre and thematic approach where stories evoke a deep sense of awe, terror, and wonder by confronting the absolute limits of human comprehension, scale, and technology.
Hugo Gernsback's definition of science fiction:
"A charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision".
John W. Campbell's definition of science fiction:
"Scientific methodology involves the proposition that a well-constructed theory will not only explain already known phenomena, but will also predict new and still undiscovered phenomena".
Robert Heinlein's definition of science fiction:
"Realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method".
What was the Suvin Event?
To replace Sense of Wonder and extrapolation.
It became the formal definition of science fiction.
Emphasis on subversive potential.
Cognitive estrangement based on introduction of a totalizing novum.
Alterity
Ethical recognition of unassimilable; difference qua difference; radical difference as such.
What does science fiction text do with its "difference"?
Shut it down.
Return to normal conditions (fear of alterity).
Open it up.
Radical possibility (embrace of alterity).
Estrangement
The difference in the science fiction world.
How do Novums effect the Sublime?
Novums produce a confrontation with he sublime.
From Sense of Wonder to alterity.
Voyages extraordinaries Ideology
Applying western scientific thought and rationality to "known and unknown worlds".
Colonial ideology: Undo alterity
Tame/map out.
Assimilate.
Colonial exploretion
Measurable standers to create unearth.
Scientific Romance
Focus on long vista brooded upon by meditative portraitists.
An absinthe of much sense of the frontier.
Scarcity of the kind pulp here who is designed to penetrate any frontier availate.
How is Sense of Wonder treated today in science fiction?
Today, debased term in science fiction community for cheap, gimmicky science fiction.
Mirrors as Crucible.
Science fiction is a socio-political and philosophical-literary thought experiment.
Cognition
Rational extrapolation.
Reflect on fictional world and our world.
"Ideal possibility" vs. 'a real possibility'.
Cognitive Estrangement
Confrontation with the alterity of the sublime.
Stasis.
Transformation.
Hard and Soft Science Fiction
Thematic Differences between Verne and Wells.
Hostility
A state of deep-seated ill will, unfriendliness, or aggressive opposition toward people, ideas, or groups.
Communitarianism
A social and political philosophy that emphasizes how deeply a person’s identity, values, and well-being are shaped by their surrounding community rather than by isolated individualism.
Hospitality
The friendly, welcoming reception and treatment of guests, visitors, or strangers.
Limits is intelligentce/Rationality.e
Hmanitarian
A person who works to help others, improve human life, and reduce suffering.
Communitarianism
A social and political philosophy that prioritizes the common good and community relationships over extreme individualism.
Purity of the community.
Vint. Alterity
Different that the difference makes.
Alterity
The state of being "other" or fundamentally different from oneself, a group, or an established norm.