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Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction
Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction explores the ethical concerns and dimensions of representations of the future of global science fiction,…
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Australian Utopian Literature
I began researching nineteenth-century Australian utopian literature during a summer research scholarship to the Australian National University in…
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Capability building for a new OER service
The University of Melbourne Library is developing a new service offering to support the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OERs). This aims to…
Locating Melbourne and Mars in the World of Literature
Australia saw a rush of utopian fiction in the late nineteenth century. Speculative accounts of futuristic Australian cities or otherworldly societies…
Melbourne and Mars: My Mysterious Life on Two Planets
When editor Joseph Fraser is asked to publish the diaries of a local merchant, he can hardly believe what he is reading. Adam Jacobs has been leading…
Science Fiction’s Ethical Modes: Totality, Infinity, and the Unenglobable Literary Space [PhD thesis]
In this thesis, I argue that the assumptions and values that underpinned pulp science fiction (SF) from the USA predisposed it to totalising themes…
Davide Panagia, Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics [book review]
A short volume, Davide Panagia’s Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics (2016) sketches a thought-provoking framework for the reconceptualisation of…
(Un)Ethical Futures: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction [conference]
The (Un)Ethical Futures: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction conference was held 15–17 December 2017 at the Monash University Law Chambers in…
Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique, no. 35/36: (Un)Ethical Futures: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction (2018)
This special double issue of Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique arises from the (Un)Ethical Futures: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction conference,…