Modifiable Futures

Science Fiction at the Bench

Bibliographic Data

ID3323313
AuthorsColin Milburn (0000-0002-6019-3284, University of California, Davis, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume101
Issue3
Pages560-569
Publication date2010-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIsis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/655793
PMID21077553
OpenAlexW1973832644
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited9

Science fiction remains an alien dimension of the history of science. Historical and literary studies of science have become increasingly attentive to various "literary technologies" in scientific practice, the metaphorical features of scientific discourse, and the impact of popular science writing on the social development of scientific knowledge. But the function of science fiction and even literature as such in the history of scientific and technological innovation has often been obscured, misconstrued, or repudiated owing to conventional notions of authorship, influence, and the organic unity of texts. The better to address those close encounters where scientific practice makes use of speculative fiction, this essay proposes that we instead analyze such exchanges as processes of appropriation, remixing, and modification

Appropriation · Art · Dimension (graph theory · Epistemology · Function (biology · Futures contract · Literature · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Philosophy · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media · Science Education and Perceptions

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