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Configurations Pub Date : 2022-10-15 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0027
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How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason by Lee McIntyre (review) 《如何与科学否认者对话:与平地人、气候否认者和其他蔑视理性的人的对话》,Lee McIntyre著(综述)
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0032
Michael Filas
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Precarious Partners: Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France by Kari Weil (review) 《危险的伙伴:19世纪法国的马和他们的人》,作者:Kari Weil
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0031
M. Pollock
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引用次数: 1
Scrambled Astronomy in Fatouville’s French Scenes for Arlequin, Empereur dans la lune 法图维尔为阿勒昆绘制的法国场景中的混乱天文学
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0029
Daniel J. Worden
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Middle-out from Bottom-up: Engineering and Close Reading Code in HBO’s Silicon Valley 自下而上的中间人:HBO硅谷的工程和细读代码
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0030
Robert Nguyen
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H. P. Lovecraft, Photography, and the Transhumanist Imagination h·p·洛夫克拉夫特:《摄影与超人类主义想象》
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0025
JiHae Koo
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The Cyber-Homunculus: On Race and Labor in Plans for Computation 网络侏儒:论计算计划中的种族和劳动
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0028
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science by John Tresch (review) 《黑夜的原因:埃德加·爱伦·坡与美国科学的锻造》作者:约翰·特雷希(书评)
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0026
A. Borst
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I Just Don’t Think about It: Engaging Students with Critical Heritage Discourse through Science Fiction 我只是没有想到:通过科幻小说让学生参与批判性遗产话语
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0021
Rhianedd Smith
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Erotic Surgery: J. G. Ballard’s Crash, Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild,” and the Visual Legacy of the Medical Museum 色情手术:j·g·巴拉德的《撞车》,奥克塔维亚·巴特勒的《血孩》,以及医学博物馆的视觉遗产
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0018
Lauren A. Mitchell
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