Monthly Archives: June 2006

Kathryn Kramer, A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space

By Steen | June 21, 2006

A piece from my dissertation, I’m briefly discussing representational issues in Kathryn Kramer’s A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space. I’m trying to establish its connection the the slipstream “movement” as Bruce Sterling began defining.

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Damien Broderick, Transrealist Fiction

By Steen | June 8, 2006

Broderick’s book investigates a new kind of writing first coined by Rudy Rucker to be ‘transrealism’. Rucker’s term was meant to save [science fiction] from itself, by adding a certain degree of literary quality and real-world connection to it. His manifesto was written in 1983 and he was soon gobbled up by the cyberpunks, yet [...]

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Jerry A. Varsava, Contingent Meanings

By Steen | June 7, 2006

Just a bit on Jerry A. Varsava’s interesting work on {postmodernism} and mimesis. His basic point is that postmodern fiction is relevant as a socio-cultural movement and not just an aesthetic programme.

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David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity

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A few notes from David Harvey’s excellent work The Condition of Postmodernity. In the following, I am mostly interested in his concept of time-space compression and the cultural and aesthetic responses to it.

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