Joan Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3919350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nassau Community College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Heterotopias
Drawing on the intellectual archaeologies of Michel Foucault, the notion of the heterotopic—of the other place that is neither utopian nor dystopian, and of the other figures who might inhabit such places—uses configurations of abnormality as a way of interrogating our sense of the normal. Capitalizing on the new digital technologies common to science fiction (sf) film, sf heterotopias are able to visualize, almost effortlessly, other possible sp…
Diverse Futures
Reviewed by: Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color by Joy Sanchez-Taylor Joan Gordon Oblivious No Longer? Joy Sanchez-Taylor. Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color. Ohio State UP, 2021. x+ 188 pp. $129.95 hc, $29.95 pbk & ebk. With the US under stress from a pandemic, fault lines have appeared; one of the most important in our field is how glaringly apparent a general obliviousness to the contributions of people of…
Again
373 BOOKS IN REVIEW of the careful and insightful scholarship Miller brings to bear on the subject. I highly recommend it for any waihang interested in a deeper understanding of the relationship between science fiction and the science of the mind.—Nathaniel Isaacson, North Carolina State University Again? Glyn Morgan. Imagining the Unimaginable: Speculative Fiction and the Holocaust. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. viii+214 pp. $120 hc, $35.96 pbk, $8…
Starring Joanna Russ
490 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 47 (2020) the really real and relatively dismissive of the merely fictional, the most worthwhile sf worlds and worldviews, in his view, are those of hard sf; drawing on the theory of an infinite multiverse, he argues that the speculative project of imagining worlds and worldviews consistent with present scientific knowledge may function as a kind of secular prophecy, that is, the discovery and experiential real…
Frank Rosell, Secrets of the Snout
Paul C. Gutjahr Voyage to the Moon and Other Imaginary Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America
630 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 46 (2019) At the same time, and largely because of this chapter, the flaws of Alternate Worlds are somewhat leavened in the third edition, even though its deficiencies persist: gaps are addressed superficially but they are still addressed. But the book’s strengths lie primarily outside of these efforts, in its expansive look at the origins of sf, and in its account of the genre’s emergence and evolution as a un…
Remembering Gene Wolfe, 1931-2019
440 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 46 (2019) NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE Remembering Gene Wolfe. Gene Wolfe, born 7 May 1931, died on 14 April 2019, his heart having finally given up the ghost. Wolfe believed in ghosts, had seen at least one, and believed in spiritual transcendence as well, so this is how I describe his death from heart disease. His writing will certainly continue to haunt us as long as we read it, an activity about which he seemed…
An Ironic Faith in the Chthulucene
Michał Piotr Pręgowski and Justyna Włodarczyk. Free Market Dogs

Introduction
A Valuable Contribution to Miéville Studies
Not Seminal but Generative
Animal Viewpoints in the Contact Zone of Adam Hines’s Duncan the Wonder Dog
Duncan the Wonder Dog by Adam Hines is an autoethnographic text about the contact zone, as Mary Louise Pratt describes both terms. I will be using this method of postcolonial analysis not to show how the graphic novel allegorizes postcolonialism among human beings, but instead to demonstrate how postcolonialism offers useful tools for understanding the posthumanism of animal subjectivity. After placing Hines’s graphic novel within the range of gr…
Laura Hobgood-Oster, A Dog’s History of the World

Women and Science Fiction
Aaron Herald Skabelund, Empire of Dogs

Garry Marvin, Wolf

Evans Receives SFRA’s Clareson Award
Learning to Live With the Animals in SF
Sherryl Vint’s Animal Alterity continues the project of her previous book Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction (2007). Where the first book explored the technological posthuman, the new one looks at the biological posthuman. Animal Alterity, like the earlier book, is concerned with the ethical implications of expanding the circle of subject beings; it could have been subtitled Animals, Subjectivity, Science Fiction instea…
Laura Brown, Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes

Talking (for, with) Dogs
This article is part of my ongoing study of a figure I call the amborg, which represents the interface between species in a variety of ways. One way in which humans and other animals interact is through the attempt to communicate, and we try most sincerely, perhaps, in the human/dog relationship. This attempt is explored in a number of science fiction stories, where scientific extrapolation and subjunctive “what if” speculation allow us to overhe…
PMLA Special section

Gazing Across the Abyss
This essay uses Sheri S. Tepper’s Six Moon Dance (1998) to demonstrate the changed view of the human/animal interface. It begins by defining a coinage, the amborg, that avoids bulky terms such as “human/animal interface” while keeping in mind the dynamic relationship between human and other animals that describes this new megatext or meta-narrative. Next, it considers the gaze as an exchange between subjects rather than as a one-way power trip fr…
Ad Astra Per Aspera
Reveling in Genre
Hybridity, Heterotopia, and Mateship in China Miéville's Perdido Street Station
This article considers the ways in which China Miéville's Perdido Street Station (2000) exhibits its hybridity, by connecting notions of hybridity to those of the grotesque. It goes on to consider the novel in terms of heterotopia as Foucault discusses it. Last, it links ideas of hybridity and heterotopia to the idea of mateship, as the novel uses dialectics to form an interconnected and dynamic network
Concerning the Pilgrim Award
The Plutophiliac Critic
Reveling in Genre
Hybridity, Heterotopia, and Mateship in China Miéville's Perdido Street Station
This article considers the ways in which China Miéville's Perdido Street Station (2000) exhibits its hybridity, by connecting notions of hybridity to those of the grotesque. It goes on to consider the novel in terms of heterotopia as Foucault discusses it. Last, it links ideas of hybridity and heterotopia to the idea of mateship, as the novel uses dialectics to form an interconnected and dynamic network
Ad Astra Per Aspera
Gazing Across the Abyss
This essay uses Sheri S. Tepper’s Six Moon Dance (1998) to demonstrate the changed view of the human/animal interface. It begins by defining a coinage, the amborg, that avoids bulky terms such as “human/animal interface” while keeping in mind the dynamic relationship between human and other animals that describes this new megatext or meta-narrative. Next, it considers the gaze as an exchange between subjects rather than as a one-way power trip fr…
Talking (for, with) Dogs
This article is part of my ongoing study of a figure I call the amborg, which represents the interface between species in a variety of ways. One way in which humans and other animals interact is through the attempt to communicate, and we try most sincerely, perhaps, in the human/dog relationship. This attempt is explored in a number of science fiction stories, where scientific extrapolation and subjunctive “what if” speculation allow us to overhe…
PMLA Special section

Learning to Live With the Animals in SF
Sherryl Vint’s Animal Alterity continues the project of her previous book Bodies of Tomorrow: Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction (2007). Where the first book explored the technological posthuman, the new one looks at the biological posthuman. Animal Alterity, like the earlier book, is concerned with the ethical implications of expanding the circle of subject beings; it could have been subtitled Animals, Subjectivity, Science Fiction instea…
Laura Brown, Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes

Evans Receives SFRA’s Clareson Award
Women and Science Fiction
Aaron Herald Skabelund, Empire of Dogs

Garry Marvin, Wolf

Not Seminal but Generative
Animal Viewpoints in the Contact Zone of Adam Hines’s Duncan the Wonder Dog
Duncan the Wonder Dog by Adam Hines is an autoethnographic text about the contact zone, as Mary Louise Pratt describes both terms. I will be using this method of postcolonial analysis not to show how the graphic novel allegorizes postcolonialism among human beings, but instead to demonstrate how postcolonialism offers useful tools for understanding the posthumanism of animal subjectivity. After placing Hines’s graphic novel within the range of gr…
Laura Hobgood-Oster, A Dog’s History of the World

Introduction
A Valuable Contribution to Miéville Studies
An Ironic Faith in the Chthulucene
Michał Piotr Pręgowski and Justyna Włodarczyk. Free Market Dogs

Paul C. Gutjahr Voyage to the Moon and Other Imaginary Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America
630 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 46 (2019) At the same time, and largely because of this chapter, the flaws of Alternate Worlds are somewhat leavened in the third edition, even though its deficiencies persist: gaps are addressed superficially but they are still addressed. But the book’s strengths lie primarily outside of these efforts, in its expansive look at the origins of sf, and in its account of the genre’s emergence and evolution as a un…
Remembering Gene Wolfe, 1931-2019
440 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 46 (2019) NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE Remembering Gene Wolfe. Gene Wolfe, born 7 May 1931, died on 14 April 2019, his heart having finally given up the ghost. Wolfe believed in ghosts, had seen at least one, and believed in spiritual transcendence as well, so this is how I describe his death from heart disease. His writing will certainly continue to haunt us as long as we read it, an activity about which he seemed…
Starring Joanna Russ
490 SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES, VOLUME 47 (2020) the really real and relatively dismissive of the merely fictional, the most worthwhile sf worlds and worldviews, in his view, are those of hard sf; drawing on the theory of an infinite multiverse, he argues that the speculative project of imagining worlds and worldviews consistent with present scientific knowledge may function as a kind of secular prophecy, that is, the discovery and experiential real…
Frank Rosell, Secrets of the Snout
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