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  1. What is an ideal theory in political philosophy?Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    I present two senses in which a political philosophy may be an ideal theory. They are not identified by Laura Valentini, in her much-cited paper. The paper is written as a pastiche of the writing style of the distinguished legal and political philosopher Joseph Raz, who recently passed away, with my notes at the foot of the page within square brackets.
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  2. A dilemma for Laura Valentini’s ideal theory paradox.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    The dilemma I present for Laura Valentini’s paradox of ideal theory concerns a theory which includes idealizations but also an account of how you apply the theory to less ideal reality. If this does not count as an ideal theory, then theories of justice need not be ideal. If it does, then ideal theories can be action guiding.
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  3. A sense of “ideal theory”.Terence Rajivan Edward - manuscript
    I present a sense of the term “ideal theory” based on Joseph Raz’s response to the situation of a lifeguard faced with three drowning on one side and two on the other and unable to save all. From what is of value, such a theory builds up a conception of an ideal political state or an aspect of it which we have reason to realize, but ignoring whether it is possible for us to realize this.
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  4. Science Fiction, Utopia, and the Icarian Project.Philip Abbott - forthcoming - Theory and Event 13 (4).
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  5. Ousados e insubordinados: protesto e fugas de escravos na Província do Grão-Pará-1840/1860.José Maia Bezerra Neto - forthcoming - Topoi.
  6. Review of Darko Suvin's Defined by a Hollow: Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction and Political Epistemology. [REVIEW]Gerry Canavan - forthcoming - Historical Materialism.
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  7. Il progetto grande scimmia.P. Cavalieri & P. Singer - forthcoming - Theoria.
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  8. Gemistus Plethon, the Essenes, and More's Utopia.J. Duncan M. Derrett - forthcoming - Bibliothèque d'Humanisme Et Renaissance.
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  9. Science, Technology and Utopia in the seventeenth Century.A. Rupert Hall - forthcoming - Science and Society.
  10. On What Political Normativity Is.Robert Jubb - forthcoming - Political Studies Review.
    Realists in normative political theory aim to defend the importance of “distinctively political thought” as opposed to the applied ethics they believe characterizes much contemporary political theory and causes it to misunderstand and make mistakes about its subject matter. More conventional political theorists have attempted to respond to realism, including Jonathan Leader Maynard and Alex Worsnip, who have recently criticized five supposedly realist arguments for a distinctive political normativity. However, while Leader Maynard and Worsnip's arguments are themselves less decisive than (...)
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  11. Avoiding capture Samuel Ely Bagg, The Dispersion of Power, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024; 304pp, £90. [REVIEW]Robert Jubb - forthcoming - European Journal of Political Theory.
    Samuel Bagg's The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy is an excellent book. It lays out and defends, in detail, an ambitious new account of the significance of democratic institutions and practices, which it sees as centrally concerned with avoiding state capture. That account powerfully illuminates many important topics in democratic theory, responding in persuasive and novel ways to old questions as well as offering new areas to explore. However, its near-exclusive focus on domination by the very (...)
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  12. 100 Years of Oz.Andrew Karp - forthcoming - Utopian Studies.
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  13. Non-Ideal Theory as Ideology.Philipp Kremers - forthcoming - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.
    Charles W. Mills developed an argument against ideal theorizing that is inspired by the early writings of Marx and Engels. He argues that the development and refinement of non-ideal theories contributes more to ending oppressive power structures than the development and refinement of ideal theories. For this reason, he concludes that ideal theories play the role of an ideology. In this article, I expose a yet undiagnosed weakness of this argument: I point out that history is rife with examples of (...)
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  14. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Political Normativity.Adrian Kreutz & Enzo Rossi - forthcoming - Political Studies Review.
    Do salient normative claims about politics require moral premises? Political moralists think they do, political realists think they do not. We defend the viability of realism in a two-pronged way. First, we show that a number of recent attacks on realism, as well as realist responses to those attacks, unduly conflate distinctively political normativity and non-moral political normativity. Second, we argue that Alex Worsnip and Jonathan Leader-Maynard’s recent attack on realist arguments for a distinctively political normativity depends on assuming moralism (...)
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  15. Power to the powerless: evolutionary liberalism and social emancipation.Otto Lehto - forthcoming - In Mikayla Novak, Liberal Emancipation: Explorations in Political and Social Economy. Springer.
    In his influential 1949 essay, The Intellectuals and Socialism, F.A. Hayek prophesied that the “revival of liberalism” must coincide with the resurgence of “the courage to be Utopian.” Today, at a time when liberalism is under attack from multiple fronts, we need courage more than ever. Indeed, the rediscovery of the Utopian potential of liberalism coincides with going back to its roots. My paper shows that liberalism, especially in its so-called “epistemic” or "evolutionary" branch whose notable theorists include Adam Smith, (...)
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  16. (1 other version)Directory of Utopian Scholars: Supplement 1.Arthur O. Lewis - forthcoming - Utopian Studies.
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  17. (1 other version)Directory of Utopian Scholars: 1996.Arthur O. Lewis - forthcoming - Utopian Studies.
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  18. A personagem dostoievskiana ea relação autor/herói em Grande sertão: veredas/The Dostoevskian character and the relationship author/hero in Grande sertão: veredas.Sandra Mara Moraes Lima - forthcoming - Bakhtiniana.
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  19. Ideology Critique in Times of Crisis.James S. Pearson - forthcoming - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
    According to epistemic ideology critics, a belief or set of beliefs is ideological when it: (a) empowers those responsible for disseminating these beliefs and (b) lacks compelling independent justification. In their view, beliefs satisfying these criteria are defective and ought to be debunked. I contest this claim by showing how, under conditions of political crisis, it is often both epistemically unwarranted and pragmatically inadvisable to debunk seemingly ideological beliefs. I examine the types of beliefs that constitute what are commonly called (...)
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  20. Gemistus plethon, the essenes, and more's utopia.A. Pellissier - forthcoming - Bibliothèque d'Humanisme Et Renaissance.
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  21. Utopia and creative thinking.Martin Plattel - forthcoming - Humanitas.
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  22. Ideologia şi utopia: două expresii ale imaginarului social, în Eseuri de hermeneutică, trad. de Vasile Tonoiu, Bucureşti.Paul Ricoeur - forthcoming - Humanitas.
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  23. Review of Nomos LXI: Political Legitimacy. [REVIEW]Enzo Rossi - forthcoming - Perspectives on Politics.
  24. Fact-Centric Political Theory, Three Ways: Normative Behaviourism, Grounded Normative Theory, and Radical Realism.Enzo Rossi - forthcoming - Political Studies Review.
    In the last two decades Anglophone political theory witnessed a renewed interest in social-scientific empirical findings—partly as a reaction against normative theorizing centred on the formulation of abstract, intuition-driven moral principles. This brief paper begins by showing how this turn has taken two distinct forms: (i) a non-ideal theoretical orientation, which seeks to balance the emphasis on moral principles with feasibility and urgency considerations, and (ii) a fact-centric orientation, which seeks to ground normative conclusions in empirical results. The core of (...)
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  25. What Can Epistemic Normativity Tell Us About Politics? Ideology, Power, and the Epistemology of Radical Realism.Enzo Rossi - forthcoming - Topoi:1-12.
    This paper examines how radical realism, a form of ideology critique grounded in epistemic rather than moral normativity, can illuminate the relationship between ideology and political power. The paper argues that radical realism can has both an evaluative and a diagnostic function. Drawing on reliabilist epistemology, the evaluative function shows how beliefs shaped by power differentials are often epistemically unwarranted, e.g. due to the influence of motivated reasoning and the suppression of critical scrutiny. The paper clarifies those mechanisms in order (...)
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  26. Plato and more's" utopia".James Steintrager - forthcoming - Social Research: An International Quarterly.
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  27. On the practicality of more's" utopia".Richard G. Stevens - forthcoming - Social Research: An International Quarterly.
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  28. JSTOR: Utopian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1990), pp. 69-83.D. Suvin - forthcoming - Utopian Studies.
    ... Lenin, Philosophical Notebooks 1. The Pragmatics of Utopian Studies1 1.1. ... The detour is apparent because, as argued above, pragmatics subsumes?but also needs to be based upon?not only syntactics but also semantics (in this case, of Utopian studies). 2.1. ... \n.
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  29. Taking political normativity seriously: legitimacy and political realism.Yun Tang - forthcoming - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.
    The article challenges the notion that political realism necessarily requires a distinctively political normativity. Drawing on the works of Weber and Nietzsche, it offers an alternative reading of political realism. The article uncovers in Williams’ scholarship a dual-layered legitimacy framework, displaying three inherent demands (namely, discursive, intelligibility, and reflective vindication demand) in his idea of legitimacy. In so doing, the article demonstrates how political realism employs its own prescriptive resources to critically scrutinize politics, while highlighting the crucial distinction between political (...)
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  30. Lequyer (Lequier), Jules.Donald Viney - forthcoming - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
    Jules Lequyer (Lequier) (1814—1862) Like Kierkegaard, Jules Lequyer (Luh-key-eh) resisted, with every philosophical and literary tool at his disposal, the monistic philosophies that attempt to weave human choice into the seamless cloth of the absolute. Although haunted by the suspicion that freedom is an illusion fostered by an ignorance of the causes working within us, he […].
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  31. Ben Laurence, Agents of Change[REVIEW]David Wiens - forthcoming - The Review of Politics.
  32. From The Best To The Rest: Idealistic Thinking in a Non-Ideal World.David Wiens - forthcoming - New York: Oxford University Press.
    From Plato to the present day, political theorists have used models of idealistic societies to think about politics. How can these idealistic models inform our thinking about political life in our non-ideal world? Not, as many political theorists have hoped, by providing normative guidance -- by showing us how things should be or where we should go. Even still, we can use these models to interpret the concepts we depend on to explain and evaluate political behavior and institutions, thereby sharpening (...)
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  33. The Fall and Rise of an Antipodean Utopia: Brisbane, Australia. William - forthcoming - Utopian Studies.
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  34. Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement by Irvin J. Hunt (review).Verena Adamik - 2025 - Utopian Studies 35 (2):718-722.
    Contributors to Utopian Studies and members of various utopian studies networks have acknowledged that Black utopias—in all the faces that utopianism can take—are still largely neglected and underrepresented in our publications, meetings, and theorizations (this also goes for utopias outside of White, Western normativity in general). Studies from within our field that sought to take the first steps to address this exclusion convincingly argue that, in the wake of Antiblackness (to use Christina Sharpe's term), utopianism takes on different forms—spatial and (...)
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  35. Critical Theory and Dystopia by Patricia McManus (review).Burcu Kayışcı Akkoyun - 2025 - Utopian Studies 35 (2):692-697.
    Scholars of utopian studies commonly note the recent surge in dystopian representations in written and visual narratives, reflecting the crisis-ridden dynamics of the contemporary moment. They investigate the meanings and significance of this phenomenon within literary, historical, and cultural frameworks. Patricia McManus's Critical Theory and Dystopia is one such notable contribution to the field, with its insightful comparisons among a selection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century dystopias. Her main concern is the form of dystopia, which, she explains, contains utopia as its (...)
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  36. Utopías Hispanas. Historia y Antología by Juan Pro Ruiz, Hugo García Fernández, and Emilio J. Gallardo Saborido (review).Miguel A. Ramiro Avilés - 2025 - Utopian Studies 35 (2):727-735.
    If we take a look at the main generalist books on utopian or dystopian literature, we can note the absence of a body of works that would constitute a utopian literary tradition written in Spanish. In a quick review, we may note that Frank Manuel and Fritzie Manuel acknowledge in Utopian Thought in the Western World that "the absence of a sustained utopian tradition in Spain is peculiar, though free-floating utopian affect may have somehow attached itself to the figure of (...)
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  37. Climate Refugeehood, Political Realism, and Political Autonomy: A Counter-Counterargument.Thomas Carnes - 2025 - Philosophia:1-14.
    In a recent paper, Felix Bender (2024) argues that we should reject the notion of climate refugeehood because existing defenses of climate refugeehood cannot be squared with political realism, according to which refugees fulfill a specific function and possess a specific value for admitting states. On this view, refugees serve admitting states’ self-interest by allowing admitting states to undermine rival regimes whose illegitimate practices render their citizens refugees, thus enhancing admitting states’ domestic and international perceptions of legitimacy. This article argues (...)
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  38. The Theory and Practice of Utopia in Our Troubled Times: A Conversation with Author Larissa Lai and Critic Sherryl Vint.Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco, Irene López-Rodríguez, Larissa Lai & Sherryl Vint - 2025 - Utopian Studies 35 (2):520-541.
    Amid current global crises, the international conference "The Knock at the Door: Utopian Dreams for Post-Covid Times," jointly organized by the University of Huelva (Spain) and the University of Calgary (Canada) on May 21–24, 2023, at the University of Huelva, provided a forum for reflecting upon the role played by speculative fiction in (re)imagining better futures, while remaining vigilant to possible threats and dangers. The title of the conference, borrowed from philosopher John Rajchman,1 is intentionally ambiguous. Lying behind that door (...)
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  39. Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors ed. Grist (review).Britta Colligs - 2025 - Utopian Studies 35 (2):707-712.
    What do we see when we imagine the year 2200? Where do we see humanity? How has the environment changed and how can we imagine a creative climate solution for a community-centered future? Questions such as those are addressed in the short-story collection Afterglow, published in 2023 in collaboration with Grist, a nonprofit online media organization dedicated to publishing environmental news and commentary. The twelve published short stories, finalists of the climate fiction contest from Fix, Grist's solution lab, are diverse (...)
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  40. Response 1: "Many pasts to access": Recent Dystopian Fiction by Asian North American Women Writers.Pilar Cuder-Domínguez - 2025 - Utopian Studies 35 (2):542-548.
    In her conversation with critic Sherryl Vint and scholars Rocío Carrasco and Irene López Rodríguez, Chinese Canadian author Larissa Lai points out that "the future can only come out of the past, but we have many pasts to access." I take my cue from this perspicacious comment on what I believe is one of the outstanding features of utopian/dystopian fiction of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries, the substantial contribution of authors from the Global South and from diasporan communities (...)
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  41. Utopian Imaginaries, 23rd Utopian Studies Society/Europe Annual Conference, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, July 4–7, 2023. [REVIEW]Iva Dimovska - 2025 - Utopian Studies 35 (2):776-782.
    Utopian Imaginaries, the 23rd annual conference of the Utopian Studies Society/Europe (USS/E) that took place in July 2023 in Cluj, Romania, offered a wide array of academic topics and insights on utopianism. Four areas of inquiry emerged persistently over the course of three days: the role of feminism in utopian studies; utopia/dystopia(nism) as theoretical and philosophical frameworks; utopianism and the climate crisis; and Central and Eastern European utopias. Given the location of the conference, this last area was of particular interest (...)
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  42. Response 2: The Neoliberal Dystopian Present and Utopian Reactions.Cristina Dodson-Castillón - 2025 - Utopian Studies 35 (2):549-556.
    The twenty-first century's shifting intellectual framework is accompanied by shifts in the character of current dystopian fiction. Contemporary society is now characterized by globalization in which privatization, consumerism, and neoliberal politics prevail. We are witness to a faltering Western progressivism, massive economic recessions, the expansion of alt-right ideologies, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian incursion into Ukraine, and the war in Gaza. Thus, neoliberalism plays a key role in the depiction of current fictional dystopias that commonly reflect society and are known (...)
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  43. Dreamworld or Dystopia? The Nordic Model and Its Influence in the 21st Century by Michael A. Livingston (review).Eric S. Einhorn - 2025 - Utopian Studies 35 (2):703-707.
    For nearly a century outsiders have remarked the interesting developments in the Nordic countries. Norway, Finland, and Iceland achieved full independence early in the twentieth century. All five countries became parliamentary democracies, but what foreign journalists, scholars, and politicians noticed was their generally successful responses to the challenges of modernity. All but Finland had avoided World War I and had introduced democratic government and universal suffrage without significant violence. Finland broke free of the collapsing Russian Empire in 1917, but suffered (...)
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  44. Un/Building the Future: The Country and The City in the Anthropocene, University of Warwick, UK, June 14–16, 2023.Arianwen Evans, Heather McKnight & Eleonora Rossi - 2025 - Utopian Studies 35 (2):783-793.
    Even when something has completely ceased to be, it does not immediately disappear. A gap remains one that retains the form of its previous fullness. The house which has been torn down and has become a thing of the past still clearly occupies the space in which it once stood.Science fiction (SF) frequently invites us to step into realms other than our own and observe what happens within these new conditions. Philip K. Dick defines the genre as one that builds (...)
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  45. Annie Denton Cridge's Healthy Utopia: The Associative Underpinnings of "Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?".Ashley Garcia - 2025 - Utopian Studies 35 (2):403-421.
    In 1870, _Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly_ published the first number of Annie Denton Cridge's utopian novel entitled "Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?" Scholars have traditionally characterized Cridge's story as a work of early feminist writing. However, they have overlooked Cridge's connection to the American Associationist movement, a utopian-socialist movement inspired by the writings of French philosopher, Charles Fourier. Cridge and her husband were inspired by Fourier and the work of American Associationists as early as the 1850s. While (...)
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  46. Introduction: Hope Through Action—Solarpunk Blueprints, Desires, and Politics.Christian Haines - 2025 - Utopian Studies 35 (2):462-466.
    What can solarpunk make us believe? What can it make us do? Can it inspire the kind of action that might resolve, overcome, or adapt to climate crisis? These are the questions asked in Alexa Weik von Mossner's "Wish We Were There: Hope, Desire, and Utopian Community in Contemporary Solarpunk," the feature article of this Critical Forum on the emergent genre of solarpunk. Weik von Mossner praises solarpunk's "dynamic of realist audacity and radical hope," the way that it couples scrutiny (...)
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  47. Response 3: "Unshakeable Want": Solarpunk, Petromodernity, and the Death Drive.Christian P. Haines - 2025 - Utopian Studies 35 (2):508-518.
    Dex escapes the city: "Sometimes, a person reaches a point in their life when it becomes absolutely essential to get the fuck out of the city." They change careers, become a tea monk, a vocation blending botanical remedy with therapeutic conversation. Dex embraces a new form of life; they learn to occupy time and attune to nature in a different way. They also repeat the foundational reconciliation between civilization and nature that is the signature of solarpunk and of Becky Chambers's (...)
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  48. Response 3: Reframing the Anthropocene.K. Allison Hammer - 2025 - Utopian Studies 35 (2):654-657.
    Thomas Whitmarsh's Writing Our Extinction and Anne Stewart's Angry Planet engage the utopian within the literary to offer new temporal and material framings that resist ecopessimism and its reinforcement of the neoliberal status quo. I cannot imagine a more consequential topic for utopian studies, or for cultural theory more broadly, as both Whitmarsh and Stewart connect the conceptualization and representation of the Anthropocene to questions of identity, solidarity, and social justice. Whitmarsh maps the vertical topologies of post-1960s fiction, which are (...)
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  49. "Unruly Alliances," Female Phallicism, and Other Forms of New Masculinities.K. Allison Hammer - 2025 - Utopian Studies 35 (2):633-641.
    We are living in a time crisis—one of selective care and empathy. Many of our hearts are broken. As I enter into this discussion, I want to leave space for those who are being directly targeted and attacked. Harms compound by the day. And toxic, or what I call normative, masculinity—as the air we breathe—actively curates this selective care and empathy.However, the stories, films, poems, and performances in my book, Masculinity in Transition, show that there is also creative power in (...)
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  50. Science Fiction by Sherryl Vint (review).Dan Hassler-Forest - 2025 - Utopian Studies 35 (2):735-739.
    Ask the average adult whether they like science fiction, and the answer will usually be "no." But ask them whether they appreciate Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, or remember Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking film 2001: A Space Odyssey, or enjoy watching the TV series Black Mirror, and watch them perk up. As it is still most commonly perceived, science fiction (hereafter SF) is a term that remains tainted by its perceived association with childish interests: shiny spaceships, goofy aliens, laser swords, and action (...)
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