Our new
<http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/>Arse
Elektronika Anthology will be released in
October/November 2009: "Do Androids Sleep with
Electric Sheep? Critical Perspectives on
Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction"...
Pre-order via <http://www.researchpubs.com/>RE/Search.
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Taking up where the successful first part of our
series left off, this anthology stands under the
motto "future" -- and the ways in which the
present sees itself reflected in it. Maintaining
a broadened perspective on technical development
and technology while also putting special
emphasis on its social implementation, this
year's conference focuses on Science and Social Fiction.
The genre of the "fantastic" is especially well
suited to the investigation of the touchy area of
sexuality and pornography: actual and assumed
developments are frequently depicted positively
and approvingly, but just as often with dystopian
admonishment. Here the classic, and continuingly
valid, themes of modernism represent a clear link
between the two aspects: questions of science,
research and technologization are of interest, as
is the complex surrounding urbanism,
artificiality and control (or the loss of
control). Depictions of the future, irregardless
of the form they take, always address the present
as well. Imaginations of the fantastic and the
nightmarish give rise to a thematic overlapping
of the exotic, the alienating and, of course, the pornographic/sexual as well.
Edited by Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther
Friesinger, Daniel Fabry, Thomas Ballhausen.
Featuring essays and stories by Rudy Rucker,
Richard Kadrey, James Tiptree, Jr., Allen Stein,
Sharing is Sexy, Jason Brown, Annalee Newitz,
Tina Lorenz, Reesa Brown, Karin Harrasser, Isaac
Leung, Rose White, Mela Mikes, Viviane, Susan
Mernit, Chris Noessel, Kit O'Connell, Jens Ohlig,
Bonni Rambatan, Thomas Roche, Bonnie Ruberg, Mae
Saslaw, Violet Blue, Nathan Shedroff, 23N!,
Benjamin Cowden, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Daniel Fabry...
Publisher: RE/Search, San Francisco.
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