Symbolism 2020: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Symbolism 2020

An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics

Edited by: Rüdiger Ahrens , Florian Klaeger and Klaus Stierstorfer

Volume 20 in the series Symbolism

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110716962

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About this book

This special anniversary volume of Symbolism explores the nexus between symbolic signification and the future from an interdisciplinary perspective. How, contributors ask, has the future been variously rendered in symbolic terms? How do symbols and symbolic reference shape our ideas of the future? To what extent are symbols constitutive of futures, and to what extent do they restrain communication about what is possible and the imagination of fundamental change? Moreover, how have symbolic practices shaped not only artistic representations of the future, but also scientific attempts at forecasting and modelling it? What, then, is the relevance of symbolism for negotiations of the future in cultural and academic production? In essays ranging from literary and film studies to the philosophy of art and ecological modelling, the volume seeks to lay groundwork in theorizing and historicising ‘symbols of the future’ as much as ‘the future of symbolism’.

Author / Editor information

Florian Klaeger, University of Bayreuth, Germany; Klaus Stierstorfer, University of Muenster, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Foreword from the Editors Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Special Focus: Symbols of the Future. The Future of Symbolism
Introduction: Symbols of the Future. The Future of Symbolism Florian Klaeger and Klaus Stierstorfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Symbol’s Risks: A Note on the Interrelationship of Art and the Use of Symbols Reinold Schmücker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
‘Symbolic Futures’ as Investment Jan B. Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
On the Future Role of Symbols in Environmental Modelling Michael Hauhs and Holger Lange Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
The Symbolization of the Female Body in Western Culture from Ancient Greece to the Transmodern Period Susana Onega Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Genre and Utopia, or 48 Hrs. for the Future: Perspectives in Media Aesthetics Ivo Ritzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
The Past Is Immutable: Technology’s Symbolism and the Future in Black Mirror Patrick Gill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
“Players and painted stage”: Symbolizing the Future in Shaw’s Back to Methuselah Nicholas Shrimpton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Herzlian Matrix: Theme Parks, Promised Lands, and Simulacra Axel Stähler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Reading the Future through the Past: Symbolism in Amitav Ghosh’s Anthropogenic Fiction Nilufer E. Bharucha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
The Cyborg, Symbol of the Evolution of the Human, or The Human of the Future Daniela Carpi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
“An ocean of thought”: AI, Robots, and Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and People Like You (2019) Janet M. Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Book Reviews
Sarah C. Bishop. Undocumented Storytellers: Narrating the Immigrant Rights Movement Ina Batzke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Sandra Dinter. Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel Denise Burkhard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Johannes Riquet. The Aesthetics of Island Space: Perception, Ideology, Geopoetics Stefanie Mueller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Lyndsey Stonebridge. Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees Jesper Reddig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of literary studies, media studies, philosophy, computer science, engineering, ecological modelling
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 260
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 6
Keywords: Symbol; futures studies; symbolism; literary form

eBook

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110716962

Hardcover

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110716719