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Category: Images of the Future: Science Fiction across the Media

New Article: The Futurism of Hip Hop: Space, Electro and Science Fiction in Rap

Adam de Paor-Evans Published Online: 2018-07-25 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0012 Abstract In the early 1980s, an important facet of hip hop culture developed a style of music known as electro-rap, much of which carries narratives linked to science...

New Article: Bacon’s New Atlantis and the Fictional Origins of Organised Science

Peter Lucas Published Online: 2018-07-18 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0011 Abstract It is a commonplace that science fiction draws inspiration from science fact. It is a less familiar thought – though still widely acknowledged – that science has sometimes...

Planet Lem, July 1, 2011 | © Courtesy of Kevan/Flickr.

New Article: “Exquisite cadaver” according to Stanisław Lem and Andrzej Wajda

Elżbieta Ostrowska Published Online: 2018-06-28 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0010 Abstract The article examines Andrzej Wajda’s Roly Poly (Przekładaniec, 1968), a 35-minute film made for Polish public television, that is an expanded version of Stanisław Lem’s...