This interdisciplinary article discusses fictional games, focusing on those appearing in works of sf. ‘Fictional games’ are playful activities and ludic artefacts that were conceptualised to be part worlds. These games cannot - or at least not originally meant actually played. The article’s objective is explore how can function as utopian devices. Drawing game studies, studies sf the first half...

MOTIVATION In recent years, the gulf between the mass of accumulating-research data and the massive literature describing and analyzing those data has widened. The need for intelligent tools to bridge this gap, to rescue the knowledge being systematically isolated in literature and data silos, is now widely acknowledged. RESULTS To this end, we have developed Utopia Documents, a novel PDF rea...

This article focuses on the Western philosophical traditions responsible for objectifying women and animals. It looks at how Margaret Atwood has engaged with these issues in The Testaments, which is sequel of Handmaid’s Tale. purpose this study to use a deconstructive approach analyse sexual differences through animal differences. Animals have been standing periphery since start western civilis...

The fall of the Berlin wall in 9 November 1989 marked the end of the socialist Utopia and the victory of post-modern, anti-utopian neo-liberalism. A few months later, in 1990, Francis Fukuyama published his polemical article ‘The End of History and the Last Man’, subsequently expanded into a bestselling book. Also in 1990 the master of puns Jean-Luc Godard shot a film with the apt title Allemag...