HUMAN BEING AS ANTHROPOCENTRE IN STRONG POSITIONSOF SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORY TEXTS

A Science Fiction Story in Nonsmooth Optimization Originating at IIASA

As in a fairy tale, this story starts in a castle, Schloss Laxenburg, one of the residences of the imperial Habsburg family located south of Vienna. In fact, it was one of Maria Theresa’s summer houses. Many long years ago (forty plus) there once was a meeting of representatives from the Eastern and Western blocks which begat an international research organization to be located in Laxenburg, Au...

features of short story in translated and non-translated literature: a polysystemic perspective

ترجمه متون ادبی در دنیای امروز از اهمیت ویژه ای برخوردار است. فرهنگ های مختلف با استفاده از متون ادبی ملل و فرهنگ های دیگر سعی در غنی کردن فرهنگ و ادبیات کشور خود دارند. کشور ما نیز از این قاعده مستثنی نیست. در ایران، ترجمه متون ادبی اروپائی که با دوران مشروطه ایرانی آغاز می شود موجب تغییرات اساسی در فرهنگ، شیوه زندگی و تفکر ایرانیان شده است. در این دوران نه تنها در امورات سیاسی و فکری کشور تغی...

Tell me a story: using short fiction in teaching law and bioethics.

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.