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Playing God in the Anthropocene: Bioengineering and the Ethics of Creation in the Jurassic World Franchise
The Jurassic World (2015-2025) franchise offers a critical reflection on the entanglement of bioengineering, capitalism, and the ethics of creation in the Anthropocene. By situating the series within the intersecting discourses of ecocriticism, bioethics, and the Anthropocene, this paper argues that more than being just a spectacle-driven science fiction, Jurassic World is a cautionary tale about the commodification of life, and the moral costs of exploiting nature for capitalist ends, metaphorised by the various genetically mutated dinosaurs created by the company InGen. This paper examines how the franchise dramatizes the ethical dilemmas of playing God in an era where technological innovation is inseparable from corporate greed. In depicting the collapse of ecosystems engineered for corporate short-term profit, the franchise raises pertinent questions about humanity's role in the current Anthropocene and in shaping futures that may prove to be too unlivable and collapsible to be sustained. Every act of artificial creation is entangled in social, political, and ecological complexities while simultaneously leaving undesired consequences. By employing Donna Haraway's concept of the cyborg the fascinating and terrifying acts of creation in the films can be seen not just as Frankensteinesque endeavours but also as products of an ineludible future. The franchise additionally appears to engage with Rob Nixon's notion of slow violence, illustrating how the biocapitalistic quest for profit slowly disrupts ecosystems and threatens collective existence. Ultimately, the Jurassic World films compel their spectators to confront the ethical limitations of bioengineering practices and to reconsider the responsibilities we must hold toward nonhuman life in an age wrought with severe planetary crisis.
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If you happen to have a dinosaur
A humorous survey of the practical things dinosaurs can do explains how otherwise unused dinosaurs can offer a perfect excuse for forgetting homework while also making good nutcrackers, kites, and burglar alarms.
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Świat w naszych rękach. O animacjach z serii „Lego Jurassic World
This article is a reflection on the animations of the Lego Jurassic World series, part of the Jurassic Park franchise. The analysis is undertaken in the context of the subject and significance of live-action films about dinosaurs resurrected thanks to futuristic science (to which the animations refer in the storyline), but also in relation to the cultural role of Lego bricks and the problem of representation, which in this case is particularly complex. The discussion of individual issues is accompanied by a reflection on the way in which childhood is understood in contemporary culture, in the face of its characteristic fascinations and anxieties.
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If I had a raptor
Our heroine can't think of anything better than bringing home a baby raptor --all teensy and tiny, fluffy and funny. It would cuddle and play, stalk birds and dust bunnies, and curl up on laps. In short, it would be the perfect pet! Readers may notice striking similarities between the raptor's behavior and that of a more common house pet.
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Through the Eyes of the T. rex: Animal Behavior in Dinosaur Fiction
Animal point-of-view fiction (also sometimes called “xenofiction”) is a niche genre that emerged in the modern era. Both prose fiction and comics told from an animal point-of-view can offer unique insights into cultural understandings of animal behavior, nature, and the environment more broadly. This article delves specifically into dinosaur point-of-view fiction, which at times has even been written by or with support from professional paleontologists. Through several popular examples of dinosaur fiction and comics published from the 1990s to the 2010s, this article will examine how these texts illustrate how fictional representations of scientific understandings conform to or challenge dominant narratives around the natural world, gender, and power. These stories, including Stephen Bissette’s unfinished comic series Tyrant (1993–1996), and Robert Bakker’s novel Raptor Red (1995), and most recently Tadd Galusha’s graphic novel Cretaceous (2019), use creative storytelling techniques to entertain readers, while also representing and participating in scientific discourses of paleontology and animal behavior.
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Rory the dinosaur wants a pet
Rory the dinosaur wants a pet of his own and finds one in a coconut he names George.
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Eco-criticism, Techno-Capitalism, and Speculative Fiction: An Analysis of Ray Bradbury's Short Story \A Sound of Thunder\
The current experience of the pandemic has raised questions about the planetary shifts that have been brought about. Rather than assess the pandemic as a medical crisis, critical assessments have sought to examine it as a consequence of structural inequalities and degradation of nature that the technocratic-capitalist nexus has resulted in. To make sense of this experience, people have sought to connect with past narratives of trauma and critiques of technocratic systems in genres such as speculative fiction. This paper uses a comparative framework to politically engage with the present through the analysis of Ray Bradburys short story A Sound of Thunder. This story is a piece of speculative fiction that examines the social, political, and environmental (ill)effects of technology on the natural and social world of a civilisation and its people. Set in the year 2055, a future in which Time Safari, Inc. can provide its customers the opportunity to travel back in time to hunt dinosaurs, it signals the horrors that the use and misuse of technology that meddles with, and causes the destruction of, nature can unleash on the world. The paper examines this short story through the perspective of literary ecocriticism, for its humanitarian and conservationist themes, as Bradburys critique of the capitalist American society that wishes to conquer all. It then establishes connections with the reading of the pandemic through conjoined histories of nature and capital.
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Digger the dinosaur and the cake mistake
Today is the big dino party, and Digger and Dadasaur take a ride into town to get a cake, but before long, they end up getting lost.
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The Mosasaurus's Tongue: Narrative, Fiction, and Scientific Speculation in Raptor Red
This paper explores the interplay between science and narrative fiction in the 1996 novel Raptor Red by paleontologist Robert T. Bakker. Specifically, it addresses the concerns of other paleontologists who are concerned with the integration of scientific theories with fictional content. I address these concerns by investigating the distinction between fiction and nonfiction whilst paying special attention to nonfictional content within fictional narratives. Then I move onto an analysis of Raptor Red, showing how Bakker uses narration to communicate scientific ideas and uses characterization to speculate on the behavior of his dinosaur characters. The study concludes by discussing other illustrated science texts and the role of the author and audience in communicating scientific concepts through narrative form.
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