Le concept d’« estrangement » est central dans la critique sur science-fiction depuis que Darko Suvin a défini ce genre par sa capacité à créer l’effet cognitif ». En revenant aux théories de Viktor Shklovsky et Bertolt Brecht, je montrerai en quoi Suvin, démarche, entrelace les aspects formel, fictionnel, générique réceptif l’estrangement. Contrairement affirme, l’outil formel privilégié SF n’...

This paper underscores the centrality of individual technological devices, particularly mobile phones, in structuring contemporary social interaction in public spaces. It illustrates the need to re-think the relationship between information and communications technologies and practices of sociability in public spaces. Based on surveys of users of mobile phones (basic mobile phones and smartphon...

The alien hand syndrome, as originally defined, was used to describe cases involving anterior corpus callosal lesions producing involuntary movement and a concomitant inability to distinguish the affected hand from an examiner's hand when these were placed in the patient's unaffected hand. In recent years, acceptable usage of the term has broadened considerably, and has been defined as involunt...

This historiographical essay explores the relationship between postmodern criticism and postcolonial studies within context of challenges historiography today. Starting with a reconstruction role historical discipline in modern colonial expansion, we situate crisis as one that centrally crosses discourses has produced series bifurcations isolations concerning debates rest social sciences humani...

ABSTRACT The objective is to reflect on how the work Bárbara creates artistic poetics from dialogue between urban space and screendance, problematizing deeply rooted beliefs contemporary art tensioning others, different ones, digital culture. Principles of practice are adopted as research discuss interfaces dance, audiovisual technology modern architecture in Cataguases, Minas Gerais. Recording...