Rubik & ‘We Have No Future’: The science-fictionalised present
This thesis investigates the intrusion of science-fictional tropes and iconography onto our current social reality, and the cultural anxieties that this has produced. I characterise these anxieties broadly as a fear of obsolescence – ‘obsolescence’ signifying a loss of agency, relevance, uniqueness,...
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Curtin University
2015
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| description | This thesis investigates the intrusion of science-fictional tropes and iconography onto our current social reality, and the cultural anxieties that this has produced. I characterise these anxieties broadly as a fear of obsolescence – ‘obsolescence’ signifying a loss of agency, relevance, uniqueness, and competence. My collection of short stories and exegesis experiment and engage with narrative strategies drawn from two closely overlapping narrative forms, science fiction and postmodern fiction, to articulate and represent obsolescence. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-18892017-02-20T06:39:40Z Rubik & ‘We Have No Future’: The science-fictionalised present Tan, Elizabeth This thesis investigates the intrusion of science-fictional tropes and iconography onto our current social reality, and the cultural anxieties that this has produced. I characterise these anxieties broadly as a fear of obsolescence – ‘obsolescence’ signifying a loss of agency, relevance, uniqueness, and competence. My collection of short stories and exegesis experiment and engage with narrative strategies drawn from two closely overlapping narrative forms, science fiction and postmodern fiction, to articulate and represent obsolescence. 2015 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1889 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Tan, Elizabeth Rubik & ‘We Have No Future’: The science-fictionalised present |
| title | Rubik & ‘We Have No Future’: The science-fictionalised present |
| title_full | Rubik & ‘We Have No Future’: The science-fictionalised present |
| title_fullStr | Rubik & ‘We Have No Future’: The science-fictionalised present |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rubik & ‘We Have No Future’: The science-fictionalised present |
| title_short | Rubik & ‘We Have No Future’: The science-fictionalised present |
| title_sort | rubik & ‘we have no future’: the science-fictionalised present |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1889 |