Your Own Personal Jesus. Expériences d’un télé-dispositif spéculatif dans Devs d’Alex Garland (2020) by Occitane Lacurie

“…By studying the figures and media that inform the machine imagined by Alex Garland in DEVS, this article proposes an archaeology of this invention that lies at the crossroads of various problems of contemporary media theory and that aims to answer, in the words of speculative science fiction, the question of spatiotemporal ubiquity, inspired by a precise technological context: Californian tech.…”
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Et si nous pouvions interviewer le boson de Higgs ? by Giulia Gaddi

“…This contribution takes up the plastic anthropology exercise by offering a science fiction (or linguistics fiction) short story, “Un dialogue particulier”, in which the author imagines an ethnography of the Higgs boson: an elementary particle whose existence was confirmed by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 2012 with the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). …”
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L’Image au pied de la lettre. L’imagerie aménageuse au prisme de la (climate) fiction by Soline Nivet

“…Borrowing from literary theory, and in particular that which focuses on science-fiction and climate fiction, the article proposes other ways of reading these images, unveiling additional aspects that are ambivalent or unsettling.…”
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Définir la fiction climatique, ou cli-fi by Andrew Milner

“…The paper begins by exploring the relationship between cli-fi and science fiction. It then proceeds to explore the history of Francophone climate fiction, from Jules Verne to Jean-Marc Ligny, through conceptualisations borrowed from utopian studies, especially the distinction between classical and critical utopias and dystopias. …”
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The Worm and the Ecologist: Experiencing Planetarity with Frank Herbert’s Dune by Pierre-Louis Patoine

“…This article explores how Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune offers occasions for the development of an ecological, Gaian sensitivity, pushing the human sensorium towards the planetary (in relation to, and contradistinction to, the global, colonial, and imperial imaginaries) by using tools typical of fantasy and science fiction, such as world-building, immersion, sensationalism, terrain navigation, non-modern epistemologies, oneiric possession, geological actants, dragon-like giant sandworms, and human-eating birds. …”
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Fiction romanesque et histoire du féminisme : à propos de La Main gauche de la nuit  by Justine Muller

“…In doing so, her work is a reflection of the raising questions and claims that characterize the various waves that cross the history of feminism. Like any science-fiction work, Le Guin’s novel is at the crossroads of reality and fiction in that it allows a criticism of present times and a renewal of the genre as much as it anticipates certain feminist theories that appeared in the 70s, 80s and 90s.…”
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Neon Genesis Evangelion ou la déconstruction du robot anime by Bounthavy Suvilay

“…In Japan, the growth of manga and cartoons adaptation on television can not be separate from science fiction and the development of the robot anime genre. …”
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Alien Monstrosity: The Practice of Technology and “Race” as Technological Construct in Star Trek: Voyager by Nils Jablonski

“…Alongside class, gender and age, race as an elementary category in modern science fiction is particularly apparent in the Star Trek franchise. …”
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La ‘Mitteleuropa’ et l’humain du futur by Adriana Popović

“…I build this organorg with influences as varied as my Balkan origins, my readings of science fiction or philosophical, sociological or political essays. …”
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Dental Robotics – A Game Changer by Harisha Dewan, Antarik Dhar, Ria H. Patel, Sarat Kumar Nayak, Tribikram Debata, Savadamoorthi Kamatchi Subramani

“…In impoverished nations, robots replacing people is science fiction, always seeking improvement. Therefore, robotic dentistry is a fiction that could become real soon.…”
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Creating a ‘Truer’ Language Within a Work of Fiction: The Example of Suzette Haden Elgin’s Native Tongue by Ruth MENZIES

“…Centuries later, in her feminist science-fiction novel, Native Tongue (1984), Suzette Haden Elgin embarks upon a rather different project, aimed at providing women with a language capable of expressing their specific experience of life and the world. …”
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Pourquoi les langues non-humaines sont-elles fondamentalement humaines ? by Bettina Beinhoff

“…The conlangs phenomenon have been more and more significant, especially through some very famous fictional languages in science fiction and fantasy. However, not all conlangs are used in stories or associated with a character. …”
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Signs of Innovation in European Cinema. Electronic Music in Antonioni and Tarkovsky by Gabriele

“…Tarkovsky’s well-established relationship with Eduard Artemiev, matured within the Moscow studio, allowed Tarkovsky to use electronic sounds in some of his films, such as Solaris, in a manner far removed from the worn-out standards of science-fiction cinema. Likewise, Antonioni found in the music of Vittorio Gielmetti a suitable aural commentary on the mental disorders of the protagonist in Deserto rosso, inserting electronic music into the palette to describe the horizons of the inner human psyche. …”
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Neurological Impairment and Literary Empowerment in Nicole Krauss’s Man Walks into a Room by Pascale Antolin

“…To resist the growing authority of neuroscience and its often reductionist discourse, Krauss features a neurosurgeon as a mad scientist coming straight out of a science-fiction novel, who uses discursive strategies borrowed from the humanities. …”
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Récits écoféministes de voyages interstellaires : observer et créer de nouveaux mondes. by Clémence Mathieu

“…The Ekumen cycle is a set of science-fiction books written between 1966 and 2002 by the american author Ursula le Guin. …”
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Littérature pour la jeunesse et diversité humaine. Privilégier la voix des auteurs en situation de handicap ? by Crystel Pinçonnat

“…Secondly, are examined texts with a higher fictional density: detective novels, fantasy and science fiction, more restrictive genres that may seem an obstacle to welcoming elaborate characters, not reducible to stereotypes. …”
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D’autres mondes pour d’autres musiques : les dimensions sonores parallèles de The OA (Partie 01) by Jérémy Michot

“…On one hand, by analyzing minimalistc musical textures, they refer to other series as well as science-fiction cinema. On the other hand, showing music and other diegetic sound effects appearing at the heart of the plot, as territories embodied by sound.…”
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Suivre la piste du CO2 pour rencontrer spiritus sylvestris by Anne-Sophie Milon

“…This science fiction attempts to take a different view of the icon of climate change: the carbon dioxide (CO2) within the Keeling Curve. …”
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Science et Fiction à Peyresq by Ugo Bellagamba, Éric Picholle, Simon Bréan, Samuel Minne

“…Dans cet entretien, Ugo Bellagamba et Éric Picholle présentent les enjeux théoriques des Journées Science et Fiction de Peyresq, consacrées chaque année à des réflexions sur les rapports entre la science-fiction et les différents champs du savoir. Les actes des deux premières éditions, Robert Heinlein et la pédagogie du réel et Rudyard Kipling et l’enchantement de la technique sont disponibles sur le site REVEL de l’Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis : http://revel.unice.fr/symposia/scetfictions. …”
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Quand l’air reprend son souffle by Zoé Brioude

“…In this reconfigured ontology, the utterly Rossetian, idiotic characters that populate the Vivarium Studio take on an airy (Philippe Quesne’s favourite element) cheerfulness that allows them to get as close as possible to reality and its tragic truth: reality is all that exists and nothing more. An author of science-fiction sets the tone: “The future that awaits us is the one we create. …”
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