David Seed

Bio: David Seed is an academic researcher from University of Liverpool. The author has contributed to research in topics: Narrative & Dystopia. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 64 publications receiving 529 citations.

Archaeologies of the Future

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Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction

Abstract: Introduction 1. Voyages into space 2. Alien encounters 3. Science fiction and technology 4. Utopias and dystopias 5. Fictions of time 6. The field of science fiction

The Narrative Method of Dracula

Abstract: Etude de la technique narrative dans l'oeuvre de Bram Stoker : la place des journaux tenus par les protagonistes, les echanges croissants de lettres et d'informations permettent de diminuer le mystere entourant Dracula et de lui resister

Peer Review and the Social Construction of Knowledge in the Management Discipline

Abstract: Prior research on the peer-review process has almost exclusively focused on its surface features--its impartiality, validity, and reliability What has received relatively less attention is the influence of the social component that shapes the content of the discipline's published record and, in turn, determines its scientific progress As the product of social processes, all knowledge-claims are socially constituted rather than the products of an absolute truth Taking a sociology-of-knowledge perspective, I argue that the social processes underlying the peer-review process warrant closer scrutiny In doing so, I contend that there must be a balancing of the inevitable author-editor-referee tensions operating throughout the editorial process so as to ensure that a clear authorial voice is preserved I offer suggestions for assuring the integrity of the scientific enterprise, while respecting the prerogatives and ethics of authorship

Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age. By Alan Nadel. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. xvi, 332 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8223-1701-X. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8223-1699-4.)

Abstract: Alan Nadel provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment. These narratives, which embodied an American postwar foreign policy charged with checking the spread of Communism, also operated, Nadel argues, within a wide spectrum of cultural life in the United States to contain atomic secrets, sexual license, gender roles, nuclear energy, and artistic expression. Because these narratives were deployed in films, books, and magazines at a time when American culture was for the first time able to dominate global entertainment and capitalize on global production, containment became one of the most widely disseminated and highly privileged national narratives in history.Examining a broad sweep of American culture, from the work of George Kennan to \"Playboy Magazine,\" from the movies of Doris Day and Walt Disney to those of Cecil B. DeMille and Alfred Hitchcock, from James Bond to Holden Caulfield, Nadel discloses the remarkable pervasiveness of the containment narrative. Drawing subtly on insights provided by contemporary theorists, including Baudrillard, Foucault, Jameson, Sedgwick, Certeau, and Hayden White, he situates the rhetoric of the Cold War within a gendered narrative powered by the unspoken potency of the atom. He then traces the breakdown of this discourse of containment through such events as the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, and ties its collapse to the onset of American postmodernism, typified by works such as \"Catch-22\" and \"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence.\"An important work of cultural criticism, \"Containment Culture \"links atomic power with postmodernism and postwar politics, and shows how a multifarious national policy can become part of a nation's cultural agenda and a source of meaning for its citizenry.

Climate change in literature and literary criticism

Abstract: This article provides an overview of climate change in literature, focusing on the representation of climate change in Anglophone fiction. It then evaluates the way in which these fictional representations are critiqued in literary studies, and considers the extent to which the methods and tools that are currently employed are adequate to this new critical task. We explore how the complexity of climate change as both scientific and cultural phenomenon demands a corresponding degree of complexity in fictional representation. For example, when authors represent climate change as a global, networked, and controversial phenomenon, they move beyond simply employing the environment as a setting and begin to explore its impact on plot and character, producing unconventional narrative trajectories and innovations in characterization. Then, such creative complexity asks of literary scholars a reassessment of methods and approaches. For one thing, it may require a shift in emphasis from literary fiction to genre fiction. It also particularly demands that environmental criticism, or ecocriticism, moves beyond its long-standing interest in concepts of 'nature' and 'place', to embrace a new understanding of the local in relation to the global. We suggest, too, that there are synergies to be forged between these revisionary moves in ecocriticism and developments in literary critical theory and historicism, as these critical modes begin to deal with climate change and reimagine themselves in turn. © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Remembering Hope: Transnational activism beyond the traumatic.

Abstract: This article argues for the need for memory studies to go beyond its present focus on traumatic memories and to develop analytical tools for capturing the cultural transmission of positivity and the commitment to particular values. Building on an emerging interest in the relationship between memory and activism, it puts its case for a re-orientation of memory studies through a close analysis of the commemoration of the Paris Commune which shows how the festive mode of commemoration itself turned the memory of defeat into a carrier of hope.