Tag Archives: Dissemination

PhD viva examination

By Steen | December 15, 2006

Last Tuesday, I passed my PhD viva examination. It was a good day, the opponents were friendly and the atmosphere was good. The text of my presentation is provided here.

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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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Cultural Text Studies Launch

By Steen | March 24, 2006

A new book series is launched today: “Cultural Text Studies” from Aalborg University Press. As one of the contributors, I was asked to do a presentation. The text of that follows here:

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Dissemination and Contamination

By Steen | October 27, 2005

In this brief chapter I will examine the movement of dissemination - which is the process of grafting - and how we may view this in light of genre; ie what can be termed generic contamination. It should be noted that the process of dissemination is not contingent on the presence of genre and should [...]

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Cyborgs and Posthumans: The Slipstream of Theory

By Steen | October 10, 2005

In this chapter, I will examine a change which has occurred in cultural theory within these last twenty or so years; metaphors and concepts from the science fiction genre (sf) has to an increasing extent turned up in order to express occurrences in contemporary culture. Generally, these concepts are used to turn events into facts, [...]

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