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アンドロイドは電気羊の夢を見るか? : Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Philip K. Dick,久志 浅倉 +1 more
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A TURTLE WHICH EXPLORER CAPTAIN COOK GAVE TO THE KING OF TONGA IN 1777 DIED YESTERDAY. It was NEARLY 200 YEARS OLD as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
A TURTLE WHICH EXPLORER CAPTAIN COOK GAVE TO THE KING OF TONGA IN 1777 DIED YESTERDAY. IT WAS NEARLY 200 YEARS OLD. THE ANIMAL, CALLED TU'IMALILA, DIED AT THE ROYAL PALACE GROUND IN THE TONGAN CAPITAL OF NUKU, ALOFA. THE PEOPLE OF TONGA REGARDED THE ANIMAL AS A CHIEF AND SPECIAL KEEPERS WERE APPOINTED TO LOOK AFTER IT. IT WAS BLINDED IN A BUSH FIRE A FEW YEARS AGO. TONGA RADIO SAID TU'IMALILA'S CARCASS WOULD BE SENT TO THE AUCKLAND MUSEUM IN NEW ZEALAND.read more
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Design fiction as world building
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the best way to contribute to the establishment of an evidence-based first paradigm, is by adopting a research through design approach, and they describe the creation of two Design Fictions through which they consider the relationship between narrative and Design Fiction and argue that links between the two are often drawn erroneously.
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A Defense of the Rights of Artificial Intelligences
Eric Schwitzgebel,Mara Garza +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, two principles for ethical AI design recommend themselves: (1) design AIs that tend to provoke reactions from users that accurately reflect the AIs' real moral status, and (2) avoid designing AIs whose moral status is unclear.
Hacking the Future: The Space and Place of Earth in Postcolonial Science Fiction
TL;DR: Hacking the Future as discussed by the authors proposes a spatially attuned reading protocol to assist scholars engaging twenty-first century post-colonized science fiction, arguing that postcolonial writers use Earth-spaces to "hack" into constructions of the future, establishing postcolonial SF as a type of literary activism.
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The Dreadful Credibility of Absurd Things: A Tendency in Fantasy Theory
TL;DR: Although it is unclear whether, by ‘fantasy,’ Butler intended a narrow denition (generic fantasy, i.e., imitation Tolkien heroic or epic fantasy and sword ’n’ sorcery) or a broad denition as mentioned in this paper, such statistics nonethless make the need for a Marxist theory or preferably, Marxist theories of the fantastic selfevident.
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Design fiction:does the search for plausibility lead to deception?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the plausibility of design fictions, looking at examples that are (1) obviously design fiction, (2) identified as design fiction and (3) whose status is either ambiguous or concealed.
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From the Grotesque to Nuclear-Age Precedents: The Modes and Meanings of Cli-fi Humor
TL;DR: This paper analyzed how humor operates on crucial rhetorical and narrative levels in the climate fiction of Atwood and Ian McEwan and found that humor can distract from and snap us out of the paralysis of fear, encouraging a self-reflexive mode of reading.
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Utilitarianism and animal cruelty: Further doubts
TL;DR: The relationship between utilitarianism and animal welfare has come under tension from many directions as discussed by the authors, and the aim of this article is to add further considerations in support of that tension, and suggest three ways in which utilitarianism comes significantly apart from mainstream concerns with animal welfare.
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Comic books, politics and readers : the influence of the 2000AD group of comics creators on the formation of Anglo-American comics culture
TL;DR: In this article, the influence on the mainstream American comic book industry of a group of comics creators from the cult British science fiction magazine 2000AD in the early 1980s is discussed.
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Quiet Refusals: Androids as Others in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how science fiction literature in general and Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in particular can be read as a symptom of the post-modern era we live in.
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Do Elders Dream of Electric Seals? : A SCOT analysis of the mental commitment robot PARO in elderly care
TL;DR: The thesis concludes that a traditional caring paradigm competes with a new robot care paradigm, and the caregiver and the social factors are crucial elements to why the robot works so well at some places, while not working in other situations.