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Assignments & Announcements
• Reading:Reading:– Bennett: Chapters 6, 7, 9, 10; Ch. 4 pages 102-104
• Homework: Homework: – Planet Temperature Solver:
• Homework #2 (7 pts): Last Day Accepted
• Homework #3 (8pts): Due Today; Last Day Accepted will be Wed., Nov. 17
• Announcements:Announcements:– Movie Report Rewrite due: Mon., Nov. 15– Review Session #3: Mon., Nov. 16, SW119, 7:30-9:00pm– Exam #3: Wed., Nov. 17.– Rooftop Observing (5 pts): Mon., Nov. 15 & Thurs., Nov. 18.
Meet outside SW319 at 8:00pm sharp.
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Guest LectureProfessor Katrina G. Boyd
Communication and Culture
• Science Fiction as a Genre
• The Alien as “The Other”
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Science Fiction
• Emerges as a literary genre in the late 19th century, a period marked by – Scientific and technological discovery
• novelty and innovation
– Major social shifts (urbanization) and rapid industrialization
– Concept of Social and Technological “Progress”
– Encounters with other cultures• Empires, anthropology, etc.
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Science Fiction and “The New”
The Novum (plural “Nova”)
The point of difference from the world
we know
The element that does not exist in our reality
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Defining Science Fiction
Negative Example:
Why is this NOT science fiction?
• Person travels to another world in manmade object
• Arrives in a strange new land
• “First contact” situation with different types of “humanoids”
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Why Isn’t This Science Fiction?
Group Work:Question AWhat elements are “wrong”
for science fiction?Question BWhat could be changed to
fit the requirements of the science fiction genre?
Question C (for all)What is your working
definition of science fiction?
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Science Fiction Nova and “Stock Elements”
Genres (such as the western, the musical) necessarily repeat key elements.
Science fiction has a range of stock “nova” and plot situations:
--android/robot
--alien (first contact stories)
--technological innovations
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Defining Science Fiction
Darko Suvin defines science fiction as a genre of “cognitive estrangement”
• Cognition = the mental process of knowing, particularly based on reasoning and judgment
Science Fiction relies on scientific/psuedoscientific language/reasoning
• Estrangement = a process in literature/art of “making the familiar strange”
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Science Fiction and the Present
• In Suvin’s definition, science fiction is not so much about the “future” as about estranging our perception of our own “present.”
• Rids us of “automatic perception”
• Allows us to gain “critical distance” on our own perceptions
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Imagining the “Other”: Alien Encounter Science Fiction
• Self vs. the “Other” Ex: categories of “race”
– “Other” as monstrous, irredeemable and horrific• As a projection of what we deny in ourselves rather than a
true understanding
– “Other” as essentially the same• Reducing “otherness” to “sameness”
– “Other” as beyond our understanding• As truly “other”
• In science fiction the self vs. other conflict is estranged into the human vs. non-Human
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“Other” as Monstrous
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H.G. WellsWar of the Worlds (1898)
• Monstrous alien• Alien body (large
head, tentacles) encased in a towering machine
• Technologically and intellectually superior
• Power of aliens analogous to that of the British Empire
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50s Sci-Fi and the Monstrous Other
Them! (1954) The Thing from Another World (1951)
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Alien (1979)
• H.R. Giger’s design concept for alien:Biomechanics
• Alien as both organic and technological
• Crossing Boundaries
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“Otherness” as “sameness”
• Star Trek, especially the original series and Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Cognitive Estrangement: Aliens and allegories of race relations
“Let This Be Your Last Battlefield”
Watt’s Riots (1965)
(1969)
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Star Trek and Liberal Humanism
• Star Trek’s “Prime Directive”
• Progress and “natural” development
• Essential “sameness”
Who Watches the Watchers
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The Transformation of The BorgCyborg=fusion of technological and organic components
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The “Other” as Truly Other