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Mythologies of possible futures: Between Science Fiction and Reality

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    • is_parent Activation 🔊
      Hello wrldz ;)
      • is_parent Formalities
        decide whether You want to validate the course as Studium Generale or Wissenschaften / Theorie 2 ECTS for passive participation (>67% attendance) 3 ECTS for
      • is_parent Cautionary note ·
        We are going to visit MANY (N~67) different worlds. There will be benign forces and there will be daemons. There will be drugs, there will be weapons and there
      • is_parent Overview
        Overview
      • is_parent Exercise - Letter to Your future Self ·
        Imagine: it's year 20030 and for the N-th time, You just left Your cryogenic chamber, fresh and ready to act.On the table, there is a bunch of letters You wrot
      • is_parent Artefact of the day - Indra's Net
        “In the palace of the god Indra is a net, which is hung by some marvelous artisan in such a way that it extends infinitely in all directions. Each jewel i
      • is_parent Metamyth ·
        What we / You aspire to deploy is a ΜΕΤΑΜΥΘ - an idealist framework beyond all the other frameworks: a story so consi
      • is_parent Why this course ? ·
        This course is hommage to PhDr. Ľubica Gabrišková, CSc. (✝ 12. 2. 2008) whose courses on science-fiction at Charles University's Faculty of Humanities and cosm
      • is_parent Lecture - 9 * 10^9 Names of God ·
        Please read at home Arthur C. Clarke's 1952 short story
      • is_parent Practical Seminars ·
        Practical Seminars "Art of Programming" and "AI Embedded ecosystems" start today at 14:00 in Medienhaus R310.
      • is_parent Closing Quote ·
        "One of the defining characteristics of Sci-Fi is that it's about worlds. You create a world first, and then you tell one or more stories in that world." (Neal
    • is_parent Antiquity to Renaissance
      Dark age & co.
      • is_parent Timaeus ·
        Cosmos as a living being — created by a divine craftsman (*Demiurge*). Blending of ΜΥΘΟΣ and ΛΟΓΟΣ: a “likely story” (*eikôs muthos*) explaining the universe.
      • is_parent Apocalypse of John of Patmos ·
        Combines Jewish apocalyptic motifs with Greco-Roman symbolism — the empire recast as beast-machine. Cosmic imaginery: stars fall, beasts rise, heavens open. My
      • is_parent The True History ·
        Lucian of Samostata, 2nd century AD. Often called the first science-fiction narrative — a voyage beyond Earth. Begins with a confession of lying; uses hu
      • is_parent Divina Comedia ·
        A structured journey through the cosmos — from infernal depth to celestial infinity. Maps medieval cosmology with mathematical precision: concentric sphe
      • is_parent Exercise ·
        Think about the superpower You declared last week that You want to have. It's year 2070 and You fully developed it and use it. Your grand-children and/or studen
      • is_parent Artefact of the day: SAMPO
        the Sampo — a mysterious artifact forged by the smith-god Ilmarinen, source of endless abundance. Sampo's nature is never fully defined — part mill, part cosmi
    • is_parent Renaissance to 19th century 🔊
      Destination 1: The Moon
      • is_parent Somnium ·
        A witchcraft invocation within a book within a dream — nested speculation. Journey to the Moon seen through "Demon's" eyes. Somnium manuscript leaked: Kep
      • is_parent Gulliver’s Travels ·
        A voyage through impossible worlds to expose human absurdity. Each land a mirror — scale, reason, and custom turned upside down. Laputa’s scientists
      • is_parent Micromégas ·
        A cosmic satire on scale, knowledge, and human vanity. Blends Enlightenment rationalism with speculative cosmology. Micromégas — a giant from Siriu
      • is_parent The Man in the Moone
        One of the earliest space-travel tales in English literature. Domingo Gonsales reaches the Moon using trained geese. Describes lunar inhabitants and societies w
      • is_parent L’An 2440 ·
        An Enlightenment dream of Paris six centuries in the future. Imagines social reform through reason, education, and moral progress. First modern utopia set in a
      • is_parent Activation ·
        Think about different means how You could put / get Your self on the surface of the moon.
    • is_parent 19th century
      FrankensteinThe SandmannErewhonParis in the 20th centuryThe Time Machine
    • is_parent Dystopias and Utopias 🔊
      1984Brave New WorldIslandGlasperlenspielHandmaid's Tale
      • is_parent George Orwell (1903-1950)
        George Orwell / Eric Arthur Blair born in British India, grew up in England, from 1922–1927 served in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma (Myanmar),
      • is_parent Margaret Atwood (1939)
        Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, and critic whose work blends fiction, feminism, ecology, and political satire. She prefers the term “speculative
      • is_parent Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
        one of the most important anglosaxxon intellectuals of 1st half of 20th century first schooling by his own mother Julia (departure letter: "Judge not too much
      • is_parent The Game with Glass Beads (1948) ·
        nihil adeo necesse est ante hominum oculos proponere ut certas quasdam res, quas esse neque demonstrari neque probari potest, quae contra eo ipso, quod pii dili
      • is_parent H.G.Wells (1866 - 1846) 🔒
        asides Shelley, Verne and Gernsback considered to be one of 19th parents of "science-fiction" genre a “social scientist in fiction”: stories as thought experim
      • is_parent Huxley's quote on Illusion and Reality 🔒 ·
        ... The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion that we must take seriously, because it is as real as it goes, and in those aspects of reality which we are
      • is_parent Мы (1921) 🔒 ·
        Anyone willing to refer at the Congress about the "mother of dystopias", the novel "We" by a Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin ?
    • is_parent Birth of a robot 🔊
      R.U.R. Metropolis Astounding Stories(Asimov's) Laws of RoboticsR. Daneel Olivaw
      • is_parent Maschinenmensch
        The Maschinenmensch is a unique android created by the scientist Rotwang, born from his obsession with resurrecting his lost love. On Joh Fredersen’s orders, t
      • is_parent Astounding Stories ·
        Astounding Stories
      • is_parent R. Daneel Olivaw 🔒
        activated on Aurora 4920 AD / 2950 AE as first humanoid / humaniform ever constructed partnered with Elijah Baley on Earth: catalyst for interworld understandi
      • is_parent Three Laws of Robotics 🔒
        1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings exc
      • is_parent AOTD: Positronic brain 🔒
        Today's "artefact of the day" (AOTS) is the "positronic brain": PB is Asimov’s fictional model of an artificial mind: a dense lattice of positronic pathwa
      • is_parent Humanoid precursors 🔒 ·
        robots of the yellow emperor Solomon's "servants of brass" / "djinn bound into metal forms" Pygmalion the mechanical maid the talking head of Sylvester II (&ldq
      • is_parent Three factions 🔒 ·
        Shaper or a Mechanist ? Or a Preservationist, maybe ?
      • is_parent From 'labor' to 'robot' 🔒
        During their summers in spa house "Poniatowski" in Trenčianske Teplice (Slovakia), Karel Čapek worked on a new play featuring artificial beings. Unsatisfied wi
      • is_parent Tears in rain 🔒
        "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
      • is_parent Final quote 🔒 ·
        GPT5.1 response to request to provide an end quote for this session:Alquist’s final realization (near the ending)“Life will not perish! Life begins
      • is_parent for Star Trek fans 🔒 ·
        "We are the Borg . Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adap
    • is_parent Space Odyssey(s) 🔊
      Space opera: epic destiny, cosmic technology, and the quiet suspicion that none of this was strictly necessary.
      • is_parent Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS (1917 - 2008) ·
        Geostationary satellites. O'Neill cylinders. Space elevators. AIs embedded in black monoliths. Stargates. Ga-Lactic intelligence.
      • is_parent Vonnegut, Adams, Futurama & co. ·
        “I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”(quote from Kurt Vonnegut's "Sirens of Titan")
      • is_parent Zones of Thought 🔒 ·
        Vernor Vinge (1944-2024): Mathematician–SF author who reshaped how we imagine posthuman futures. Popularized the Technological Singularity: intelligence g
      • is_parent 'The Culture' series (Iain Banks) 🔒 ·
        Culture: post-scarcity civilization with no money, no states, no coercion.Freedom is radical: bodies, gender, lifespan, identity are mutable.Humans coexist wit
    • is_parent Mythologies of the future 🔊
      DuneStar WarsFoundationCantos Hyperion
    • is_parent She and He
      Ursula leGuinNeal Stephenson
    • is_parent Cyberpunk, solarpunk and other punkz
      • is_parent Neuromancer
        💧 Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson is the novel that defined cyberpunk. Set in a near-future global sprawl, it follows Case, a washed-up hacker navigating
      • is_parent Schismatrix
        💧 Schismatrix (1985) by Bruce Sterling is a foundational cyberpunk / post-cyberpunk novel set several centuries in the future, after humanity has spread throug
      • is_parent Baroquepunk, Steampunk & co. ·
        Baroquepunk is a speculative genre where ornament, excess, and early-modern worldviews collide with systems thinking. Inspired by Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, it
      • is_parent Solarpunk ·
        💧 Solarpunk is a speculative genre and cultural movement imagining desirable futures built on renewable energy, ecological repair, and social justice. Rooted i
      • is_parent Afrofuturism 🔒 ·
        💧 Afrofuturism is a cultural and speculative framework that reimagines the past, present, and future through African and African-diasporic perspectives, blendin
      • is_parent Nanopunk 🔒 ·
        💧 Nanopunk is a speculative genre in which nanotechnology replaces industry, infrastructure, and scarcity itself, reorganizing society around control of matter
      • is_parent Berlinpunk 🔒
        Imagine Berlin in 2300 / AE330. Is it still a city or did it turn into desert ? Or jungle ? Is UdK still planning to relocate to Tempelhof ? Do foxes still roa
      • is_parent Metaverse 🔒 ·
        "So Hiro's not actually here at all. He's in a computer-generated universe that his computer is drawing onto his goggles and pumping into his earphones. In the
    • is_parent Sowing thoughts, sowing worlds ·
      Olivia Butler - The parable of the SowerNnedi Okorafor -
    • is_parent Congress AE5602
      Medienhaus Aula, Gaia
      • is_parent 0. Tagesordnung 🔒 ·
      • is_parent 1. Berichte 🔒
        Reports from past, present and future parallel universes.
      • is_parent 2. Propositions 🔒
        Propositions of Amendments to Common Ecological Protocol.
      • is_parent 3. Votum & Disputation 🔒 ·
        https://udk.ai/vote
      • is_parent 4. Ratification 🔒 ·
        Snapshot of the CEP-Modification/Amendment votum will be taken at 11:45 CET.Based on variable values, the proposed Amendments of the Protocol will get activate
      • is_parent 5. The Last Possibility to snap an AAP 🔒 ·
        Who is the author of the following citation: "The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion that we must take seriously ... We must not attempt to live outsi
      • is_parent 6. Post Scriptum 🔒 ·
        In last semester we visited at least hundred worlds so there's still few more to go.Thus, Auf wiedersehen in Sauen & "So long, and thanks for all the 🐟 !"
    • is_parent Seeding myths 🔊
      Let's start the vertical and horizontal analysis of past, present and future myths.
      • is_parent TOPOI
        Which topics are common to sci-fi ? Which ones are shared with other forms of fiction (fairy-tales, mythology, fantasy, speculative fiction) ? Which topics dis
      • is_parent India
        King Kakudmi & Revati visit Brahmā’s realm — return after 27 yuga cycles (Bhāgavata Purāṇa 9.8.26–28). King Muchukunda sleeps for an age;
      • is_parent Greece ·
        Pandora — first woman crafted from clay → engineered being. Pygmalion — sculptor creates a synthetic woman brought to life by Aphrodite →
      • is_parent Egypt ·
        Ra’s solar barque sails across sky and underworld each day → cosmic ship. The Duat (𓂋𓏏𓈉) as cyclical underworld journey → time loop / nightly re
      • is_parent China
        The artificer Yan Shi presents the Yellow Emperor with a mechanical man of wood and leather — moves, sings, even flirts → one of the earliest robot legends. Lu
      • is_parent Maya and Inca ·
        Maya and Inca
      • is_parent Yorumba, Dogon &c. ·
        Yorumba, Dogon &c.
      • is_parent Edda & Kalevala ·
        Edda & Kalevala
      • is_parent Artefact of the day - Table of destiny
        Ancient Sumerian–Babylonian mythic tablets inscribed with the divine code of the universe — whoever possessed them controlled fate, kingship, and cosmic order.
      • is_parent Lecture for next week ·
        The Mahābhārata – The Vimana Episode The Painter and the Mechanical Maiden Daedalus and Icarus King Kakudmi and Revati King Muchukunda Awakens Wang Ziqia
    • is_parent From Golden Age to the New Wave 🔊
      John "Ticktockman" W. Campbell vs. Harlan "Harlequin" Ellison and Horselover "nicht-alle-Tassen-im-Schrank" Fat
      • is_parent The New Wave
        The New Wave (mid-1960s to late 1970s) was a literary movement that rejected Golden Age rationalism in favor of experimentation, psychology, and stylistic innov
      • is_parent The Golden Age 🔒
        The Golden Age of Science Fiction (roughly late 1930s to mid-1950s) was a period defined by technological optimism, clear rational problem-solving, and the beli
      • is_parent The Story with 1000 camp-bells 🔒 ·
        Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987) mythographer who argued that all stories follow a shared “monomyth” of departure, initiation, return. His main work "T
      • is_parent Sci-Fi Community 🔒 ·
        **Awards:** Hugos (since **1953**, fan-voted), Nebulas (**1965**, writer-voted), Locus (**1971**), BSFA (**1970**), Clarke Award (**1987**)—markers of global S
      • is_parent Philip Kindred Dick (1928 - 1982) 🔊
        ultra-prolific (cca 45 novels, >120 short-stories) his twin sister Jane died when he was six weeks old first educated at Quaker schools, later at Berkeley sell
      • is_parent IOTD: Cryptica Scriptura 🔒 ·
        One Mind there is; but under it two principles contend. The Mind lets in the light, then the dark, in interaction; so time is generated. At the end Mind awards
      • is_parent Fazit 🔒 ·
        Hard SF solves the universe; New Wave doubts the solver.
    • is_parent Margaret & Ursula 🔊
      • is_parent Margaret Atwood (1939)
        Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, and critic whose work blends fiction, feminism, ecology, and political satire. She prefers the term “speculative
      • is_parent Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929 - 2018) 🔊
        daughter of Alfred Louis Kroeber and Theodora Kroeber spent her childhood in highly stimulating environment (community of Berkeley anthropologists) married hist
      • is_parent Narrative ingression par excellence 🔒 ·
        "ein klassisches Beispiel für die Spannung zwischen theologischer Erzählung und römischer Verwaltungsgeschichte":Ἐγένετο δὲ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις ἐξῆλθεν δόγ
      • is_parent 🎄 merry Christmas, dear colleagues !🎄 🔒 ·
        "Hope is a slighter, tougher thing even than trust… In a good season one trusts life; in a bad season one only hopes. But they are of the same essence… Without
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