Confronting Dystopia: The Power of Cognition in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and The Diamond Age. Issue 1 (April 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Confronting Dystopia: The Power of Cognition in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and The Diamond Age. Issue 1 (April 2017)
- Main Title:
- Confronting Dystopia
- Authors:
- Lewis, Jonathan
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Neal Stephenson's novels are typically labeled "dystopic, " but such marketing offers little use-value for understanding his significant contributions to contemporary science fiction. His work breaks with traditional definitions of dystopic fictions at nearly every turn by offering scenarios where human creativity and cognition offer real hope against such potential disasters. Snow Crash and The Diamond Age 's protagonists build cognitive responses to the dystopic wastelands they inhabit, but Stephenson's terrifying novelistic premises and conceptions for future technologies and their myriad uses should be properly characterized as constructive and optimistic Jamesonian anti-utopias. Stephenson's work certainly does not suggest that innovation alone can be our panacea, but he does put forward throughout his work that cognition just might.
- Is Part Of:
- Extrapolation. Volume 58:Issue 1(2017)
- Journal:
- Extrapolation
- Issue:
- Volume 58:Issue 1(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 58, Issue 1 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 58
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0058-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 45
- Page End:
- 75
- Publication Date:
- 2017-04
- Subjects:
- Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
Science fiction -- Bibliography -- Periodicals
Science fiction
Bibliography
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Periodicals
809.38762 - Journal URLs:
- http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/loi/extr ↗
http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/122345/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.3828/extr.2017.4 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0014-5483
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- Legaldeposit
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