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Description World Weavers: Globalization, Science Fiction, and The Cybernetic Revolution By Wong Kin Yuen, Gary Westfahl, Amy Kit-sze Chan Hong Kong University Press | June 2006 | PDF | ISBN10: 9622097227 | 307 pages | 16.3 mb Amazon Link : http://www.amazon.com/World-Weavers-Globalization-Cybernetic-Revolution/dp/9622097227 World Weavers is the first study the relationship between globalization and science fiction. Scientific innovations provide citizens of different nations with a unique common ground and the means to establish new connections with distant lands. This book attempts to investigate how our world has grown more and more interconnected not only due to technological advances, but also to a shared interest in those advances and to what they might lead to in the future. Contents Contributors ix Introduction From Semaphors and Steamships to Servers and Spaceships: The Saga of Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution by Gary Westfahl 1 Part I Global Perspectives 5 1. Going Mobile: Tradition, Technology, and the Cultural Monad 7 George Slusser 2. Urbe et Orbe: A Prehistory of the Postmodern World City 25 Howard V. Hendrix 3. 2001, or A Cyberpalace Odyssey: Toward the Ideographic Imagination 41 Takayuki Tatsumi 4. The Genealogy of the Cyborg in Japanese Popular Culture 55 Sharalyn Orbaugh 5. Hermeneutics and Taiwan Science Fiction 73 Wong Kin Yuen 6. Is Utopia Obsolete? Imploding Boundaries in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age 95 N. Katherine Hayles Part II: History Lessons 111 7. Tales of Futures Passed: The Kipling Continuum and Other Lost Worlds of Science Fiction 113 Andy Sawyer 8. Globalization in Japanese Science Fiction, 1900 and 1963:The Seabed Warship and Its Re-Interpretation 135 Thomas Schnellbacher 9. The Limits of "Humanity" in Comparative Perspective:Cordwainer Smith and the Soushenji 143 Lisa Raphals 10. The Idea of the Asian in Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle 157 Jake fakaitis 11. Godzilla's Travels: The Evolution of a Globalized Gargantuan 167 Gary Westfahl Part III: Contemporary Case Studies 189 12. Black Secret Technology: African Technological Subjects 191 Gerald Gaylard 13. The Teeth of the New Cockatoo: Mutation and Trauma in Greg Egan's Teranesia 205 Chris Palmer 14. When Cyberfeminism Meets Chinese Philosophy:Computer, Weaving and Women 215 Amy Kit-sze Chan 15. Hollywood Enters the Dragon 233 Veronique Flambard-Weisbart 16. Romeo Must Die: Action and Agency in Hollywood and Hong Kong Action Films 245 Susanne Rieser and Susanne Lummerding Afterword 255 Wong Kin Yuen and Amy Kit-sze Chan Notes 259 Bibliography of Works Related to Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution 287 Index 301 Sharing Widget |