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    Rubik & ‘We Have No Future’: The science-fictionalised present

    228298_Tan 2015 partial perm.pdf (831.4Kb)
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    Authors
    Tan, Elizabeth
    Date
    2015
    Supervisor
    Dr Ann McGuire
    Dr Deborah Hunn
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    PhD
    
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    School
    School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1889
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    • Curtin Theses
    Abstract

    This thesis investigates the intrusion of science-fictional tropes and iconography onto our current social reality, and the cultural anxieties that this has produced. I characterise these anxieties broadly as a fear of obsolescence – ‘obsolescence’ signifying a loss of agency, relevance, uniqueness, and competence. My collection of short stories and exegesis experiment and engage with narrative strategies drawn from two closely overlapping narrative forms, science fiction and postmodern fiction, to articulate and represent obsolescence.

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