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Has anyone seen Jessica Jenkins?
Manifesting an ability to become invisible, Jessica, along with her best friend Izzy, organizes a band of fellow students who also demonstrate supernatural abilities only to be targeted by an unscrupulous adult.
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The adventures of Invisible Boy : zeroes to heroes
\"Stanley and Gene develop a new plan to be superheroes\"-- Provided by publisher.
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From invisibility to artificial life: ethical quandaries in science fiction
This paper analyzes how science fiction serves as a critical ethical early-warning system. By examining H.G. Wells’s The Invisible Man, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, the authors demonstrate that the genre’s core function is not mere technological prediction but a profound exploration of the social and moral catastrophes that arise when scientific ambition divorces itself from ethical constraints. The study constructs a framework linking specific ethical violations – such as the pursuit of power through invisibility, the irresponsible creation and abandonment of artificial life and the systemic exploitation of clones under anthropocentrism – to broader societal collapse. The authors’ central argument is that these narratives perform proactive and participatory ethics, forcing a confrontation with dilemmas posed by hypothetical technologies. Ultimately, the paper contends that science fiction uniquely advocates for the essential fusion of scientific progress and humanistic values, asserting that true advancement requires this symbiosis.
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Now you see me
High school sophomore Tony would prefer to remain ordinary and overlooked at his school, but one day he wakes up to discover that he can literally become invisible, attracting the interest of a bully but also new friends Tony is willing to step into the spotlight to defend.
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Negotiations of In/Visibility: Surveillance in Hito Steyerl’s How Not to be Seen
In this paper, I analyze Hito Steyerl’s artwork How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File (2013) from the perspective of surveillance. Looking back at one of the most influential artworks of the last decade, I understand How Not to be Seen as a discursive practice using images that poses an ambivalent surveillance critique through media- and wordplay. I first outline the historical references of Steyerl’s critique of technology, including Heidegger’s (1938) “image as world picture,” and position her in relation to other relevant surveillance-resistant practices. Drawing on analytical theory by Rancière (2006), I argue that the video is an example of a documentary fiction that organizes heterogenous visual, semiotic, and sensory material horizontally. From here, I move on to analyze the artwork focusing on how in both its content and form it engages humorously in discussions of (in)visibility, targeting, resolution, and data extraction. Using discourses on Steyerl’s work from herself and others, I show how the .MOV file, in playing with representational media, subverts categories used for surveillant targeting and data extraction. Hence, I argue that Steyerl ultimately advocates for resistance through ambivalence as a playful counter-visuality in the face of ubiquitous surveillance. In an era of intelligent imagery, this implicates using the image as an object that is part of the medium and not as subject representation.
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The visible man : a novel
Treating a delusional scientist who has been using cloaking technology from an aborted government project to render himself nearly invisible, Austin therapist Victoria Vick becomes obsessed with his accounts of spying on the private lives of others.
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The Worlding of Chinese Science Fiction
This chapter studies Chinese science fiction’s “global” impact as a new wave, and examine three implications of the term “worlding,” as world-building in science fiction, as the genre’s becoming world literature, and as its representation of the invisible China as a hidden part of the world. The chapter refers to David Damrosch’s concept of “world literature” as well as Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr’s argument about “global science fiction,” and polemicize these notions in the context of Chinese science fiction. The chapter mainly focuses on the works by Liu Cixin, with discussions extended to Han Song, Chen Qiufan, and Bao Shu, their translated works, as well as their untranslated, and even unpublished, works. The chapter also asks what remains invisible after Chinese science fiction has taken the center stage, while looking deeper into the genre’ ethical commitment and political subversions.
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How to capture an invisible cat
Socially awkward fifth-grade genius Nate Bannister recruits his classmate Delphine to help him reverse one of his many experiments (a dinosaur-sized, invisible cat) while foiling the schemes of the world's most dastardly organization, the Red Death Tea Society.
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A Thing of Temperament
In the spring of 1998, Cathleen Rountree interviewed Doris Lessing at her north London home in the west section of Hampstead. Lessing, the author of more than thirty books-novels, short stories, reportage, poems, plays, and two librettos-received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. She is best known for her proto-feminist novel The Golden Notebook (1962) and her series of science fiction novels, including The Sirian Experiments (1981) and the two-volume Canopus in Argos. In this in-depth interview, \"A Thing of Temperament: An Interview with Doris Lessing,\" the Nobel Laureate discusses her wide-ranging interests and concerns-the new theories of psychiatry, Marxist theory, feminism, racism, Sufism, the sciences, the destruction of the environment-all of which have found their way into the writing of this most original and unconventional woman.
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