Hot equations : science, fantasy, and the radical imagination on a troubled planet / Jesse S. Cohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohn, Jesse S., 1972-

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction--History and criticism.

Science fiction.

Fantasy literature--History and criticism.

Fantasy literature.

Horror tales--History and criticism.

Horror tales.

Climatic changes in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 352 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2024.

Contents:

Part I: Escape from the Great Sorting Machine

Introduction

1. Predictive Analytics for Monstrous Times

2. Sublime Machines: Valves of the Heart

3. Methodological Metafetishism

4. Unbarring the Other

Part II: The Fantastic within and beyond Modernity

5. Notes toward a Rhetoric of the Fantastic

6. Rhetorics of the Impossible

7. Rhetorical Sovereignty

Part III: Toward a Multiplicative Realism

8. The Rhetoric of Fictive Science

Or, The Academy of Outrageous Books

9. How the Gordin Brothers Escaped Western Gravity

Part IV: Fantastic Politics in an Imperiled Pluriverse

10. Unicorn Rhetoric

11. The Fantastic from Counterpublic to Public Imaginary

12. Acting Supernaturally (with Notes on the Monster of Anarchy)

Appendix: A Provisional Manifesto for Nonmodern Anarchisms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-342) and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781496850201 (electronic bk.)

1496850203 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40032301341

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.