By J. Weldes
This quantity explores the technological know-how fiction/world politics intertext. via specific analyses of such texts as Blade Runner, Stalker, megastar Trek, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the chapters during this quantity study the advanced and infrequently contradictory family members among global politics, either as self-discipline and as perform, and discourses of technology fiction. supplying a unique mixture of pop culture research with significant theoretical and empirical matters touching on global politics, to find New Worlds offers insights into the discursive structure of either technology fiction and global politics whereas highlighting the occasional demanding situations that the technology fiction/world politics intertext launches at our good judgment.
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Bennett (1986) provides a useful discussion of some of the problems in defining popular culture. 7. While the relationship between discourse and ideology is neither simple nor settled, it is useful to see discourse as enabling a process of making meaning and ideology as an effect of that process (Purvis and Hunt, 1993: 496). A discourse thus has ideological effects in that it, for instance, privileges certain groups and interests over others, and is always implicated in the production and reproduction of power relations.
For Greenblatt, as a literary scholar, the main point is to demonstrate how this circulation may account for the power of the plays. For a social scientist, the main point will be how the representations offered in plays, novels, television series, and the like contribute to the constitution of the social. The first half of Constance Penley’s (1997) NASA/Trek begins to take such a turn by teasing out the interdiscursivity between American space travel and Star Trek. S. diplomacies are concerned.
When the Founders and the Borg are nonetheless liminars of diplomacy, and not simply alien to the concept, it is because they recognize the value of communication in certain senses and in certain situations. For example, when the Borg plan an invasion of Earth in order to “add new biomatter to their own,” they abduct Captain Picard and enhance him genetically to fit into their collective. ” Locutus is Latin for “the one who addresses,” and addressing one collective on behalf of another is a typical diplomatic function.