Rubik & ‘We Have No Future’: The science-fictionalised present

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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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Main Author:	Tan, Elizabeth
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	Curtin University 2015
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1889

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