Tom Idema
Biographic Data
| ID | 1248791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Idema |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Idema |
| SIGNATURE | IDEMA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
When the levees break
Flood narratives are potent cultural forms that signal the urgency of global heating. Although in Paolo Bacigalupi’s science fiction novel The Windup Girl the flood only happens near the end, flooding is omnipresent as a rhetorical figure, a complex process, and an anticipated event. This paper argues that by drenching the narrative discourse in floods and flows, the novel summons forth a watery kind of thought—an alternative to the dominant land…
Stages of Transmutation
Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism develops the theoretical perspective of environmental posthumanism through analyses of acclaimed science fiction novels by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Jeff VanderMeer, in which the human species suddenly transforms in response to new or changing environments. Narrating dramatic ecological events of human-to-nonhuman encounter, invasion, and …
Life Decoded
In Greg Bear’s critically acclaimed science fiction novel Darwin’s Radio, the activation of an endogenous retrovirus (SHEVA), ironically located in a “noncoding region” of the human genome, causes extreme symptoms in women worldwide, including miscarriages. In the United States, a task force is assembled to control the pandemic crisis and to find out how SHEVA operates at the genomic level. However, as the story unfolds, it becomes manifest that …
Toward a Minor Science Fiction
Following a recent scholarly trend that conceives of science fiction (SF) as a complement to science and technology studies, this essay builds on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of minor literature to analyze SF as a mode of biophysical, not just social, experimentation. Minor SF experiments with scientific elements and potentials to embed culture and the human body in unstable biophysical micro-and macro-environments. This approach w…
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Toward a Minor Science Fiction
Following a recent scholarly trend that conceives of science fiction (SF) as a complement to science and technology studies, this essay builds on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of minor literature to analyze SF as a mode of biophysical, not just social, experimentation. Minor SF experiments with scientific elements and potentials to embed culture and the human body in unstable biophysical micro-and macro-environments. This approach w…
Life Decoded
In Greg Bear’s critically acclaimed science fiction novel Darwin’s Radio, the activation of an endogenous retrovirus (SHEVA), ironically located in a “noncoding region” of the human genome, causes extreme symptoms in women worldwide, including miscarriages. In the United States, a task force is assembled to control the pandemic crisis and to find out how SHEVA operates at the genomic level. However, as the story unfolds, it becomes manifest that …
Stages of Transmutation
Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism develops the theoretical perspective of environmental posthumanism through analyses of acclaimed science fiction novels by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Jeff VanderMeer, in which the human species suddenly transforms in response to new or changing environments. Narrating dramatic ecological events of human-to-nonhuman encounter, invasion, and …
When the levees break
Flood narratives are potent cultural forms that signal the urgency of global heating. Although in Paolo Bacigalupi’s science fiction novel The Windup Girl the flood only happens near the end, flooding is omnipresent as a rhetorical figure, a complex process, and an anticipated event. This paper argues that by drenching the narrative discourse in floods and flows, the novel summons forth a watery kind of thought—an alternative to the dominant land…
Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Narrative (2 works)