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- Ehriander, Helene, 1962-, et al.
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Rymdäventyr i barn- och ungdomslitteraturen
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rymden och människan: Rymdforskning i humaniora, konst och samhällsvetenskap. - Växjö & Kalmar : Linnéuniversitetet. ; , s. 8-9
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Godhe, Michael, 1964-
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After Work : Anticipatory Knowledge on Post-Scarcity Futures in John Barnes’s Thousand Cultures Tetralogy
- 2018
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Ingår i: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. - : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 2000-1525 .- 2000-1525. ; 10:2, s. 246-262
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What would happen if we could create societies with an abundance of goods and services created by cutting-edge technology, making manual wage labour unnecessary – what has been labelled societies with a post-scarcity economy. What are the pros and cons of such a future? Several science fiction novels and films have discussed these questions in recent decades, and have examined them in the socio-political, cultural, economic, scientific and environmental contexts of globalization, migration, nationalism, automation, robotization, the development of nanotechnology, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence and global warming. In the first section of this article, I introduce methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives connected to Critical Future Studies and science fiction as anticipatory knowledge. In the second and third section, I introduce the question of the value of work by discussing some examples from speculative fiction. In section four to seven, I analyze the Thousand Culture tetralogy (1992–2006), written by science fiction author John Barnes. The Thousand Cultures tetralogy is set in the 29th century, in a post-scarcity world. It highlights the question of work and leisure, and the values of each, and discusses these through the various societies depicted in the novels. What are the possible risks with societies where work is voluntary?
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- Godhe, Michael, 1964-, et al.
(författare)
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Beyond Capitalist Realism - Why We Need Critical Future Studies
- 2017
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Ingår i: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. - 2000-1525 .- 2000-1525. ; 9:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper introduces the interdisciplinary field of Critical Future Studies (CFS).CFS investigates the scope and constraints within public culture for imagining anddebating different potential futures. It interrogates imagined futures founded – oftensurreptitiously – upon values and assumptions from the past and present, aswell as those representing a departure from current social trajectories. CFS drawson perspectives from various disciplines including sociology, political studies,intellectual history, cultural history, media and cultural studies, utopian studies,science and technology studies, and philosophy. CFS also engages with discoursesand ideas from the natural sciences (including popular science), computing andeconomics. And, given our concern with public culture, CFS aims to contributeconstructively to vigorous and imaginative public debate about the future – a futuralpublic sphere – and to challenge a prevalent contemporary cynicism about ourcapacity to imagine alternative futures while trapped in a parlous present. To thatextent, we propose CFS as a programme of engaged and open-ended social critique,not as a solely academic endeavour. Our paper begins by describing the relationshipbetween CFS and mainstream Future Studies. Subsequently, we discussthe contemporary context for Critical Future Studies. Here we make the case thatCFS is a timely and even urgent project at our current historical juncture, arguingalso for the significance of both utopian and dystopian imaginings. We then go onto discuss methodologies within CFS scholarship. Finally, we conclude by reflectingon the values underpinning CFS. Overall, this paper not only describes CFSas a field of research but also serves as an invitation to cultural scholars to considerhow their own work might intersect with and contribute to CFS.
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- Godhe, Michael, 1964-, et al.
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Critical Future Studies : A Thematic Introduction
- 2018
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Ingår i: Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research. - : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 2000-1525 .- 2000-1525. ; 10:2, s. 151-162
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Introduction theme issue Culture Unbound
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- Godhe, Michael, 1964-
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Science fiction som framtidsoffentlighet
- 2019
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Ingår i: humtank 2014-2019: Humanistiska dimensioner. Blogginlägg i urval, red Isak Hammar & Jenny Larsson. - Lund, Sweden : humtank. ; , s. 24-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Godhe, Michael, 1964-
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“The Old Stories Had Become Our Prison” : Globalisation and Identity Politics in John Barnes’s Science Fiction Novels A Million Open Doors and Earth Made of Glass
- 2018
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Ingår i: Fafnir. - Juvaskyla, Finland : Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research. - 2342-2009. ; 5:1, s. 9-20
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article discusses how issues raised by globalisation are represented in John Barnes’s novels A Million Open Doors (1992) and Earth Made of Glass (1998). I will argue that science fiction can work as a model for a futural public sphere, bridging the gap between the humanities and natural science, and enabling a broader public discourse about the societal impacts of science and technology.Through the novels’ protagonists, Barnes discusses matters of authenticity and identity politics triggered by the globalisation discourse of the 1990s – issues that have again been brought to the fore in the political sphere. By setting the stories in our galaxy in the 29th century, Barnes is debating, challenging, and contesting dystopian as well as utopian conceptions of globalisation in our time. Barnes’s novels highlight the implications of nationalist ideologies, identity politics, and notions of authenticity.But Barnes also shows how utopian thinking on a borderless global world and idyllic visions of a post-national society (expressed in some of the more utopian streams of globalization literature) are undermined by identity politics. In this sense, Barnes’s novels are opening up a terrain for debating these issues, forming a basis for a futural public sphere
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- Godhe, Michael, 1964-
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The Right Kind of Curiosity
- 2019
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Ingår i: Fafnir. - Juvaskyla, Finland : Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research. - 2342-2009. ; 6:1, s. 110-117
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this reflection, the author examines Tenfjord and Oxaal’s popular Norwegian children’s novel Jens krysser himmelrommet (Jens Crosses Space), published in 1954, as an exceptional case among typical juvenile novels of the time, in that it portrayed in moral terms both the practice of science and the attitudes and attributes of scientists. He argues that in the early (and politically charged) days of the space race, this novel was unusual in offering young readers moral and intellectual models that aimed to encourage them to move beyond a simplistic enjoyment of science fiction for children to the rigors of mature scientific exploration.
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- Godhe, Michael, 1964-
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Underhållning bör tas på största allvar
- 2017
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Ingår i: Svenska Dagbladet. ; 29/7
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Recension (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Underhållning är den kanske mest betydelsefulla kulturkategorin i vår samtida västerländska kultur. Ändå har den fortfarande svårt att tas på allvar. Men om vi inte förstår vad det innebär att ha roligt förstår vi inte heller den värld vi lever i.
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