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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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Robopoetics: the robot-lyric voice
TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop a "robopoetics" for reading and writing lyric poetry, which is both an exploration of the lyric voice/voicing and a cultural study of the robot as icon.
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Do exoskeletons dream of plastic sleep?: Comment on "The embodiment of assistive devices-from wheelchair to exoskeleton" by M. Pazzaglia and M. Molinari.
TL;DR: It is proposed that the sense of bodily borders does not have to be confined to the bodily self, and may extend to habitually used mobility devices (exoskeletons and wheelchairs) that dynamically expand the corporeal area beyond the boundary between the self and the external world.
Urban Spaces in Dystopian Science Fiction
TL;DR: The analysis of the urban paradigm allows us to distinguish the genre of dystopian science fiction from neighboring, openly anti-realistic genres, such as the Fantastic, the Marvelous and space opera as mentioned in this paper.
Content-based instruction: A tale with two flavors
Mamoru Takahashi,Stephen Shucart +1 more
TL;DR: Content-Based Instruction (CBI) is a powerful tool for improving a student's communicative competencies as mentioned in this paper, especially in the field of ESP (English for Special Purposes).
Disrupting Heteronormative Codes: When Cylons in Slash Goggles Ogle AnnaKournikova
TL;DR: This paper interprets Julie Levin Russo’s Slash Goggles algorithm, fictional software for exploring variant romantic pair possibilities and sexual subtexts on the remake of the television program “Battlestar Gallactica", and develops a framework for viewing the heteronormative code in other functioning algorithms.