Ralph Pordzik
Biographic Data
| ID | 4044603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph Pordzik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph |
| FAMILY NAME | Pordzik |
| SIGNATURE | PORDZIK R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Posthuman Future of Man: Anthropocentrism and the Other of Technology in Anglo-American Science Fiction
Novels and short stories written since the last decades of the nineteenth century and employing discourses of technology have contributed to shaping the idea of the “posthuman condition” in the West to such a degree that some critics already feel entitled to announce the Age of the Posthuman. This essay interrogates some of the embarrassingly quixotic proposals of posthumanism, taking H. G. Wells's Time Machine (1895), William Gibson's Neuromance…
A Postcolonial View of Ireland and the Irish Conflict in Anglo-Irish Utopian Literature since the Nineteenth Century
Nationalism, Cross-Culturalism, and Utopian Vision in South African Utopian and Dystopian Writing 1972-92
Reading 1984 fifty years after its first publication, one is still embarrassed by Orwell's grim enactment of utopia as a closed and nightmarish system of manipulative structures beyond human agency or remedy. More than any other literary text in the Western world, this novel evokes the ultimate triumph of totalizing doctrines eschewing social change or readjustment and the futility of individual resistance against repressive structures and ideolo…
A Postcolonial View of Ireland and the Irish Conflict in Anglo-Irish Utopian Literature since the Nineteenth Century
Nationalism, Cross-Culturalism, and Utopian Vision in South African Utopian and Dystopian Writing 1972-92
Reading 1984 fifty years after its first publication, one is still embarrassed by Orwell's grim enactment of utopia as a closed and nightmarish system of manipulative structures beyond human agency or remedy. More than any other literary text in the Western world, this novel evokes the ultimate triumph of totalizing doctrines eschewing social change or readjustment and the futility of individual resistance against repressive structures and ideolo…
A Postcolonial View of Ireland and the Irish Conflict in Anglo-Irish Utopian Literature since the Nineteenth Century
Nationalism, Cross-Culturalism, and Utopian Vision in South African Utopian and Dystopian Writing 1972-92
Reading 1984 fifty years after its first publication, one is still embarrassed by Orwell's grim enactment of utopia as a closed and nightmarish system of manipulative structures beyond human agency or remedy. More than any other literary text in the Western world, this novel evokes the ultimate triumph of totalizing doctrines eschewing social change or readjustment and the futility of individual resistance against repressive structures and ideolo…
The Posthuman Future of Man: Anthropocentrism and the Other of Technology in Anglo-American Science Fiction
Novels and short stories written since the last decades of the nineteenth century and employing discourses of technology have contributed to shaping the idea of the “posthuman condition” in the West to such a degree that some critics already feel entitled to announce the Age of the Posthuman. This essay interrogates some of the embarrassingly quixotic proposals of posthumanism, taking H. G. Wells's Time Machine (1895), William Gibson's Neuromance…
Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Dystopia (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropocentrism (1 works) · Classics (1 works) · Classics (1 works)