Benjamin J Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1377536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin J Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin J |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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612 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 48 (2021) Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research. The journal, which publishes two issues each year, provides an open-access international forum for scholarly exchanges on science fiction, fantasy, other speculative genres, and issues current in the field. Fafnir welcomes contributions from a wide range of perspectives. The editors are particularly interested in innovative (yet rigorous) appro…
Media Scholarship in the Age of Franchise
Media Archaeology and Science Fiction
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media
What We Talk About When We Talk About Healthcare
In this essay Dr. Hergott explores subjectivity in the settings of patient-doctor interactions and medical narrative, with an emphasis on both activities dealing with matters of the heart. Who is the subject when patient and doctor are together? Whose I matters in that setting? For whom and to whom is medical narrative written
Some Matching Strangeness
This essay argues for situating Octavia Butler's writing, particularly her 1979 novel Kindred, within the discourses of both science fiction and American literature. Scholarship that relies on either an ahistorical reading of Donna Haraway's cyborg (and avoids questions of Americanness) or places Butler within the tradition of the neo-slave narrative (and thereby eschews reference to sf) cannot account for the embodied notion of history her work …
On Moral Science
On Moral Science:The Problematic Politics of Stuart Kauffman's Order Benjamin J. Robertson (bio) By now Jean-François Lyotard's interrogation of science operating under "the postmodern condition" is well known: scientific discourse cannot be legitimated via any process internal to that discourse, but is achieved via one of several metanarratives that lie outside science itself. The caveat is that the postmodern condition is characterized (in Lyot…
Some Matching Strangeness
This essay argues for situating Octavia Butler's writing, particularly her 1979 novel Kindred, within the discourses of both science fiction and American literature. Scholarship that relies on either an ahistorical reading of Donna Haraway's cyborg (and avoids questions of Americanness) or places Butler within the tradition of the neo-slave narrative (and thereby eschews reference to sf) cannot account for the embodied notion of history her work …
On Moral Science
On Moral Science:The Problematic Politics of Stuart Kauffman's Order Benjamin J. Robertson (bio) By now Jean-François Lyotard's interrogation of science operating under "the postmodern condition" is well known: scientific discourse cannot be legitimated via any process internal to that discourse, but is achieved via one of several metanarratives that lie outside science itself. The caveat is that the postmodern condition is characterized (in Lyot…
Some Matching Strangeness
This essay argues for situating Octavia Butler's writing, particularly her 1979 novel Kindred, within the discourses of both science fiction and American literature. Scholarship that relies on either an ahistorical reading of Donna Haraway's cyborg (and avoids questions of Americanness) or places Butler within the tradition of the neo-slave narrative (and thereby eschews reference to sf) cannot account for the embodied notion of history her work …
What We Talk About When We Talk About Healthcare
In this essay Dr. Hergott explores subjectivity in the settings of patient-doctor interactions and medical narrative, with an emphasis on both activities dealing with matters of the heart. Who is the subject when patient and doctor are together? Whose I matters in that setting? For whom and to whom is medical narrative written
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media
Media Archaeology and Science Fiction
Media Scholarship in the Age of Franchise
Mass Markets
612 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 48 (2021) Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research. The journal, which publishes two issues each year, provides an open-access international forum for scholarly exchanges on science fiction, fantasy, other speculative genres, and issues current in the field. Fafnir welcomes contributions from a wide range of perspectives. The editors are particularly interested in innovative (yet rigorous) appro…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Narrative (2 works)