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The Digitized Museum and the Troubling Reliance on Technology to Manage Knowledge in E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops E. M.福斯特的《机器停止》中的数字化博物馆和令人不安的对技术的依赖
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0024
Grace Anne Paizen
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Introduction: Museums in Science Fiction, Science Fiction in Museums 简介:科幻中的博物馆，博物馆中的科幻
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0016
Verity Burke, Will Tattersdill
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Coda on Curation: Thoughts on Science Fiction and Museums 关于策展的Coda：关于科幻小说和博物馆的思考
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0022
Dolly Jørgensen
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Science Fiction at the Natural History Museum 自然历史博物馆的科幻小说
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0020
M. Carnall
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I Cannot Tell You All the Story: Narrative, Historical Knowledge, and the Museum in H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine 我不能告诉你所有的故事:h·g·威尔斯的《时间机器》中的叙事、历史知识和博物馆
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0017
J. Kistler
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Science Fiction Worldbuilding in Museum Displays of Extinct Life 博物馆里的科幻世界建筑——灭绝生命的展示
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0019
Verity Burke, Will Tattersdill
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A Hundred Tiny Hands: Slavery, Nanotechnology, and the Anthropocene in Midnight Robber 一百只小手：《午夜强盗》中的奴隶制、纳米技术和人类世
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0010
D. Leong
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Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin (review) Ruha Benjamin的《技术之后的种族：新吉姆法典的废奴主义工具》（综述）
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0013
Rachel Boccio
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引用次数: 17
The Hermeneutics of Computer-Generated Texts 计算机生成文本的解释学
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0008
Leah Henrickson, Albert Meroño-Peñuela
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引用次数: 4
Fabric Bodies: The Craft of Vascular Anastomosis 织物体:血管吻合工艺
IF 0.1 4区 文学
Configurations Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2022.0009
P. Craddock
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