Experimental science-fiction films as filmic heterotopia

The power of communication. apps as human substitutes in science-fiction films

Inanimate entities being able to speak belongs to the traumatic experiences during modernism’s initial phase around 1800. After all, the preceding century had witnessed the movement of Enlightenment put at the center of knowledge and science man, i.e. the man of reason, able of speech. Thusly Herder had described it in his treatise on the origin of language, a superlative corollary from a numbe...

Fiction informed by science.

Towards the interactive filmic narrative - "Transparency": An experimental approach

Nowadays, the cinematographic language claims for a specific type of interpretation and understanding. The emergence of the digital image and the innovative immersive reception devices provide new and diverse possibilities of reading and interacting within the filmic narrative. That is to say, cinema is constantly reinvented and explores potential renewals within the new interactive medias. Thi...

Vortex lattice melting theories as example of science fiction.

Vortex lattice melting theories as example of science fiction. Abstract It is shown that the popular conception of the vortex lattice melting have appeared in consequence of a incorrect notion about the Abrikosov state and incorrect definition of the phase coherence. The famous Abrikosov solution gives qualitatively incorrect result. The transition into the Abrikosov state must be first order i...

Science Fiction as an Introduction to AI Research

The undergraduate computer science curriculum is generally focused on skills and tools; most students are not exposed to much research in the field, and do not learn how to navigate the research literature. We describe how science fiction reviews were used as a gateway to research reviews. Students learn a little about current or recent research on a topic that stirs their imagination, and lear...