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Ïan Larue
Ïan Larue, (2 September 1958) is a French essayist, science fiction author and painter. She has published two science fiction novels, ''La Vestale du calix'' and ''La fille geek''. One of her best-selling books, ''Libère-toi cyborg. Le pouvoir transformateur de la science-fiction féministe'', deals with the theme of cyborgs. Reflecting on the list of feminist science fiction authors cited at the end of Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto (including Octavia Butler), Ïan Larue redefines this founding figure in the philosopher's thought. According to the author, ‘The cyborg is the ultimate hybrid, a hybrid between a real woman and a character in a novel who is superimposed on her to endow her with a thousand new possibilities, including the fundamental one of breaking up capitalism, family and patriarchy.’ In 2019 Ïan Larue was the winner of the Grand prix de l'Imaginaire, in the ‘Essays’ category, for this non-fiction book. Biography After teaching at the University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utopia
A utopia ( ) typically describes an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members. It was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book ''Utopia (book), Utopia'', which describes a fictional island society in the New World. Hypothetical utopias focus on, among other things, equality in categories such as economics, government and justice, with the method and structure of proposed implementation varying according to ideology. Lyman Tower Sargent argues that the nature of a utopia is inherently contradictory because societies are not homogeneous and have desires which conflict and therefore cannot simultaneously be satisfied. To quote: The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia. Utopian and dystopian fiction has become a popular literary category. Despite being common parlance for something imaginary, utopianism inspired and was inspired by some reality-based fields and concepts such as utopian architecture, architecture, Cyber-ut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvie Lainé
Sylvie Lainé (born June 29, 1957) is a French science-fiction writer. Sylvie Lainé won a Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire in 2006. Activism In 2022 Sylvie Lainé protested against the eviction of Stéphanie Nicot from the festival Les imaginales by publishing a letter of support for Nicot with other authors among whom Ïan Larue, Floriane Soulas, Silène Edgar, Robin Hobb, Estelle Faye, Sara Doke, Sylvie Denis, Lucie Chenu, , and . Nouvelles * ''La ballade de Johny Gueux'', Les Lames Vorpales n°1B, novembre 1984, et Hors Service n° 5, 1999. * ''L'écrivain'', Les Lames Vorpales n°2, December 1984. * ''Le meyeur des mondes'', Les Lames Vorpales n°2, December 1984. * ''Un cahier de 280 minutes'', (with Markus Leicht), Les Lames Vorpales n°2, December 1984. * ''Partenaires'', Les Lames Vorpales n°2, December 1984, et Univers 85, J'Ai Lu. * ''Le cycle de Joclin'' (5 stories), Les Lames Vorpales n°2, December 1984. * ''Un remède à la solitude'', Les Lames Vorpales n°3, Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floriane Soulas
Floriane Soulas (born 1989 in Paris), is a French fantasy and science fiction novelist and short story writer, particularly in the steampunk and space opera subgenres. She began publishing in 2014, and has won several awards since 2018. Biography Born in Paris in 1989, Floriane Soulas attended a preparatory class and then an engineering school, the École des Mines de Carmaux. She then completed a thesis in mechanical and material engineering in 2016. Alongside her career as a mechanical engineer, she writes science fiction short stories. Her childhood reading and inspirations include Émile Zola, Victor Hugo and Albert Camus, as well as fantasy works by J. R. R. Tolkien and David Gemmell, and science fiction by Isaac Asimov and George Orwell.. She published her first novel, ''Rouille'' in 2018. The book follows a prostitute's investigation into a series of murders in steampunk Paris. It was awarded the ActuSF award for uchronia in the Literature category, the Imaginales award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tableaux De ïan Larue
The International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX) is an annual international academic conference that deals with all aspects of automated reasoning with analytic tableaux. Periodically, it joins with CADE and TPHOLs into the International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR). The first table convened in 1992. Since 1995, the proceedings of this conference have been published by Springer's LNAI series. In August 2006 TABLEAUX was part of the Federated Logic Conference in Seattle, USA. The following TABLEAUX were held in 2007 in Aix en Provence, France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ..., as part of IJCAR 2008, in Sydney, Australia, as TABLEAUX 2009, in Oslo, Norway, as part of IJCAR 2010, Edinburgh, U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witchcraft
Witchcraft is the use of Magic (supernatural), magic by a person called a witch. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic to inflict supernatural harm or misfortune on others, and this remains the most common and widespread meaning. According to ''Encyclopedia Britannica'', "Witchcraft thus defined exists more in the imagination", but it "has constituted for many cultures a viable explanation of evil in the world". The belief in witches has been found throughout history in a great number of societies worldwide. Most of these societies have used Apotropaic magic, protective magic or counter-magic against witchcraft, and have shunned, banished, imprisoned, physically punished or killed alleged witches. Anthropologists use the term "witchcraft" for similar beliefs about harmful occult practices in different cultures, and these societies often use the term when speaking in English. Belief in witchcraft as malevolent magic is attested from #Ancient Mesopotamian religion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecofeminism
Ecofeminism integrates feminism and political ecology. Ecofeminist thinkers draw on the concept of gender to analyze relationships between humans and the natural world. The term was coined by the French writer Françoise d'Eaubonne in her 1974 book . Ecofeminist theory introduces a feminist perspective to Green politics and calls for an egalitarian, collaborative society in which there is no one dominant group. Today, there are several branches of ecofeminism, with varying approaches and analyses, including liberal ecofeminism, spiritual/cultural ecofeminism, and social/socialist ecofeminism (or Materialist feminism, materialist ecofeminism). Interpretations of ecofeminism and how it might be applied to social thought include ecofeminist art, social justice and political philosophy, religion, economics, contemporary feminism, and literature. Ecofeminist analyses address the political effects of Social constructionism, culturally constructed parallels between the oppression of n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Tiptree Jr
Alice Bradley Sheldon, better known as James Tiptree Jr. (born Alice Hastings Bradley; August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987), was an American science fiction and fantasy author. It was not publicly known until 1977 that James Tiptree Jr. was a pen name of a woman, which she used from 1967 until her death. From 1974 to 1985, she also occasionally used the pen name Raccoona Sheldon. Tiptree was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012. Tiptree's debut story collection, '' Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home'', was published in 1973 and her first novel, ''Up the Walls of the World'', was published in 1978. Her other works include the 1973 novelette " The Women Men Don't See", the 1974 novella " The Girl Who Was Plugged In", the 1976 novella " Houston, Houston, Do You Read?", the 1985 novel ''Brightness Falls from the Air'', and the 1974 short story "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever". Early life, family and education Alice Hastings Bradley came from a family in the intellectual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Guérillères
''Les Guérillères'' is a 1969 novel by Monique Wittig.Martin, Douglas, ''Monique Wittig, 67, Feminist Writer, Dies'', New York Times, January 12, 2003 It was translated into English in 1971. __TOC__ Plot introduction ''Les Guérillères'' is about a war of the sexes, where women "engage in bloody, victorious battles using knives, machine guns and rocket launchers". Moreover, sympathetic males join them in their combat.Literary significance and criticism An early appreciation of the English tr ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monique Wittig
Monique Wittig (; 13 July 1935 – 3 January 2003) was a French author, philosopher, and feminist theorist who wrote about abolition of the sex-class system and coined the phrase "heterosexual contract." Her groundbreaking work is titled '' The Straight Mind and Other Essays''. She published her first novel, '' L'Opoponax'', in 1964. Her second novel, '' Les Guérillères'' (1969), was a landmark in lesbian feminism. Biography Monique Wittig was born in 1935 in Dannemarie, Haut-Rhin, France. In 1950, she moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. In 1964, she published her first novel, ''L'Opoponax'' which won her immediate attention in France and won the Prix Médicis. After the novel was translated into English, Wittig achieved international recognition. She was one of the founders of the '' Mouvement de libération des femmes'' (MLF) (Women's Liberation Movement). In 1969, she published what is arguably her most influential work, '' Les Guérillères'', which is today consid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Female Man
''The Female Man'' is a feminist science fiction novel by American writer Joanna Russ. It was originally written in 1970 and first published in 1975 by Bantam Books. Russ was an ardent feminist and challenged sexist views during the 1970s with her novels, short stories, and nonfiction works. These works include '' We Who Are About To...'', " When It Changed", and ''What Are We Fighting For?: Sex, Race, Class, and the Future of Feminism''. The novel follows the lives of four women living in parallel universes which differ in time and place. The women visit each other's worlds and are startled by the different views on gender roles and social conventions surrounding women and womanhood. Their encounters influence them to reevaluate their lives and redefine what it means to be a woman. The title of the novel comes from the character Joanna, who transforms into a "female man" in order to be respected and seen beyond her sex. A "female man" is a woman with a man's mind, her body and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ (February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011) was an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as '' How to Suppress Women's Writing'', as well as a contemporary novel, '' On Strike Against God'', and one children's book, ''Kittatinny''. She is best known for '' The Female Man'', a novel combining utopian fiction and satire, and the story " When It Changed". Background Joanna Russ was born in The Bronx, New York City, to Evarett I. and Bertha (née Zinner) Russ, both teachers. Her family was Jewish. She began creating works of fiction at a very early age. Over the following years she filled countless notebooks with stories, poems, comics and illustrations, often hand-binding the material with thread. As a senior at William Howard Taft High School, Russ was selected as one of the top ten Westinghouse Science Talent Search winners. She graduated from Cornell University, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
