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dc.contributor.authorTan, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.supervisorDr Ann McGuire
dc.contributor.supervisorDr Deborah Hunn
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T10:14:31Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T10:14:31Z
dc.date.created2015-07-31T07:20:20Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1889
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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.

dc.languageen
dc.publisherCurtin University
dc.titleRubik & ‘We Have No Future’: The science-fictionalised present
dc.typeThesis
dcterms.educationLevelPhD
curtin.departmentSchool of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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