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Lance's story
Details Lance's adventures from his childhood in Cuba and his days as a pilot at Galaxy Garrison to how he became a Paladin of Voltron.
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Technological Development and Management
This e-book explores China's role in the world as a leader in the production and development of modern technology from the perspective of management strategy
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Terraforming the Red Planet: Imperial Domination, Neocolonial Control, and Resistance in Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars
This paper uses Edward Said's concept of colonial discourse to examine how Mars is colonized by the governments of Earth and dominated by transnational capitalism, as it is depicted in Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars. The novel portrays Mars as a battlefield for the imperial powers of Earth, where the wars for Martian land proceed from well-known predilections for imperialist and neo-colonial capitalism. Mars appears as a \"frontier,\" neither settled nor exploited, that can be colonized, where both the colonizers and colonized struggle for dominance. But Martian colonists reject corporate and institutional control and fight their own battles reminiscent of anti-colonial struggles on Earth. This qualitative study investigates how Mars can be viewed as an extension of neocolonialism by arguing that Robinson has depicted Mars as a colonial/neocolonial space. The novel serves as a warning to the institutions of Earth as it demonstrates that conquest, corporate dominance, and economic exploitation are challenges that must be continually opposed. The research underlines the need to create a system based on justice, freedom, and the wellbeing of all settlers. It raises both political and ethical questions and illustrates how speculative fiction like Red Mars plays a role in policymaking conversations.
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The Impact of China on Cybersecurity: Fiction and Friction
Exaggerated fears about the paralysis of digital infrastructure and the loss of competitive advantage contribute to a spiral of mistrust in U.S.-China relations. In every category of putative Chinese cyber threat, there are also considerable Chinese vulnerabilities and Western advantages. China has inadvertently degraded the economic efficiency of its networks and exposed them to foreign infiltration by prioritizing political information control over technical cyber defense. Although China also actively infiltrates foreign targets, its ability to absorb stolen data is questionable, especially at the most competitive end of the value chain, where the United States dominates. Similarly, China's military cyber capacity cannot live up to its aggressive doctrinal aspirations, even as its efforts to guide national information technology development create vulnerabilities that more experienced U.S. cyber operators can attack. Outmatched by the West, China is resorting to a strategy of international institutional reform, but it benefits too much from multistakeholder governance to pose a credible alternative. A cyber version of the stability-instability paradox constrains the intensity of cyber interaction in the U.S.-China relationship—and in international relations more broadly—even as lesser irritants continue to proliferate.
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Transmodern Reconfigurations of Territoriality, Defense, and Cultural Awareness in Ken MacLeod’s Cosmonaut Keep
This paper focuses on the science fiction (SF) novel Cosmonaut Keep (2000)—first in the trilogy Engines of Light, which also includes Dark Light (2001) and Engines of Light (2002)—by the Scottish writer Ken MacLeod, and analyzes from a transmodern perspective some future warfare aspects related to forthcoming technological development, possible reconfigurations of territoriality in an expanding cluster of civilizations travelling and trading across distant solar systems, expanded cultural awareness, and space ecoconsciousness. It is my argument that MacLeod’s novel brings Transmodernism, which is characterized by a “planetary vision” in which human beings sense that we are interdependent, vulnerable, and responsible, into the future. Hereby, MacLeod’s work expands the original conceptualization of the term “Transmodernism” as defined by Rodríguez Magda, and explores possible future outcomes, showing a unique awareness of the fact that technological processes are always linked to political and power-related uses.
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Shiro's story
Get to know Shiro--the Black Lion's Paladin--from his days as a pilot at Galaxy Garrison on Earth to his capture by the Galra empire, and more.
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EDEBİYATTA SAVAŞ YARATMAK: POST APOKALİPTİK GELECEK SENARYOSU TEMELİNDE NİKOLAY LİPNİTSKİY’İN EVE GİDEN YOL ESERİNDE “III. DÜNYA SAVAŞI”
1978 yılında SciFiNow dergisinde Amerikalı eleştirmen Alan Frank tarafından ortaya atılan post apokaliptik terimi, ilk olarak edebiyat yazarlarının olası küresel felaketin yalnızca nedenlerini değil, aynı zamanda sonuçlarını da kavrama konusundaki arzuları sonucu çıkar. Özellikle XXI. yüzyıl dünya edebiyatında geniş yer kaplayan bu terim, “post apokaliptik edebiyat” adı altında yeni bir nesir anlayışının doğuşuna zemin hazırlar. Fantastik yazın türünün bir kolu olarak hareket eden bu edebiyat, genel anlamda soğuk savaş, uzay araştırmaları, III. Dünya Savaşı tehdidi gibi konular çerçevesinde şekillenir. Nitekim bu çalışmada, XXI. yüzyılın öne çıkmaya başlayan Rus yazarlarından Nikolay Lipnitskiy’in Eve Giden Yol eserinde, geleceğe yönelik çalışmalar içerisinde bir hayli geniş yer kaplayan III. Dünya Savaşı’nın sonuçları post apokaliptik temelde çözümlenecektir. Her zamankinden farklı olarak yaşanan bir savaşın edebiyata yansımasının ele alınmadığı bu çalışmada, henüz gerçekleşmemiş bir savaşın, son derece canlı bir şekilde kurgulanışı ve aktarılışı betimleme yönteminden faydalanılarak gösterilmeye çalışılacaktır. Böylelikle Lipnitskiy’in yalın bir şekilde işlediği bu senaryosuyla aslında araştırmacılar tarafından oldukça ihtimal dâhilinde görülen III. Dünya Savaşı’nın gerçekleşmesi halinde olabileceklere yönelik vermek istediği önemli uyarısı ön plana çıkarılacaktır.
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