Learning from the Little Engines That Couldn’t
Transported by Gernsback, Wells, and Latour
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11059067 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Bould, Sherryl Vint |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | Part 1 |
| Pages | 129-148 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Fiction Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-7729 • E-ISSN: 2327-6207 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/sfs.33.1.129 |
| OpenAlex | W191971095 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Taking as its starting point Bruno Latour’s coinage of “scientifiction” to describe his book Aramis or the Love of Technology (1993), this essay draws out its similarities to and differences from the scientifiction proposed by Hugo Gernsback and developed by John W. Campbell, Jr. It situates Aramis within Latour’s work in science studies and his more overtly political speculations. Drawing on H.G. Wells’s short story “A Tale of the Twentieth Century” (1887) to identify a key weakness—the absence of any concept of social power—in Latour’s work, it suggests that sf’s imaginative potential might play a role in reformulating his political vision
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2021 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |