The China Fantasy, Fantasy
In: The China quarterly, Band 191, S. 745-749
ISSN: 1468-2648
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In: The China quarterly, Band 191, S. 745-749
ISSN: 1468-2648
In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Band 191, S. 745-749
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
In: The China quarterly, Heft 191, S. 745-749
ISSN: 1468-2648
In: Historical materialism: research in critical marxist theory, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 273-280
ISSN: 1465-4466
The prospects for creating a materialist understanding of fantasy literature are contemplated; specific attention is dedicated to the differences between science fiction & fantasy literature's differing treatments of the good/evil binary & of technological devices. An analysis of contemporary scholarship's discussion of the generic differences between science fiction & fantasy is performed, illustrating that the former is frequently perceived as addressing the topics of history & historical development. After suggesting that not all science fiction is materialistic in nature, problems with traditional materialist assessments of fantasy are identified. Informed by Ludwig Feuerbach's understanding of religion as a form of projection, it is asserted that the magical within fantasy literature is indicative of humankind's creative capacity & freedom & that such literature essentially counterbalances science fiction's concern with history & historical change. The benefits of developing a materialist understanding of fantasy literature are also considered. 6 References. J. W. Parker
In: Finance and society, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 73-75
ISSN: 2059-5999
"NESARA/GESARA" pops up easily when one searches for the financial element in conspiratorial, millennialist fantasies today. The acronym, NESARA, stood initially for National Economic Stabilization and Recovery Act: a rather fringe policy proposal ideated in the 1990s by Harvey F. Barnard, a consultant and founder of a NESARA Institute established in Greenwell Springs, Louisiana. The initiative, which took the form of a proposed bill but was never introduced before the US Congress, consisted in a systematic monetary and fiscal reform aiming at "general prosperity" (against the "contrived scheme" put in place by "power brokers in Washington, DC") and included things such as the restoration of gold as constitutional currency, the end of the Federal Reserve System, the elimination of national debt, the abolition of compound interest on loans, and of income tax. The 2000s saw the acronym evolve, now standing for National Economic Security and Reformation Act and referring to a rather esoteric version of the plan, soon acquiring a planetary dimension, in the form of a Global Economic Security and Reformation Act, GESARA. Shaini Goodwin - a spirituality and investment consultant known as the "Dove of Oneness" in New Age internet circles - spearheaded this new conspiratorial interpretation. The "global currency reset" and the general "revaluation" the reform called for were considered to be in fact underway, although in a secret, occulted fashion, with an adverse league of political and financial elites conspiring against the changes. NESARA/GESARA also started to carry a distinctive spiritual, prophetic element, with the restoration of the fair, original, real value of persons and things being connected to the equilibrium of energies - at once planetary, cosmic, mystical, psychic, extra-terrestrial, interdimensional, divine, and economic.
In: GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 315-317
ISSN: 1527-9375
In: African identities, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 275-286
ISSN: 1472-5851
In: GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 666-668
ISSN: 1527-9375
In: Historical materialism: research in critical marxist theory, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 273-280
ISSN: 1569-206X
In: Dissent: a journal devoted to radical ideas and the values of socialism and democracy, Band 47, Heft 1, S. 122-124
ISSN: 0012-3846
Gitlin reviews Russ Rymer's 'American Beach: How Progress Robbed a Black Town--and Nation--of History, Wealth, and Power.'.
In: Forum qualitative Sozialforschung: FQS = Forum: qualitative social research, Band 9, Heft 3
ISSN: 1438-5627
Der Artikel beschäftigt sich mit kartografischen Darstellungen als kommunikativer Vermittlungsstrategie des Imaginären am Beispiel von Karten in Fantasy-Rollenspielen. Im Rückgriff auf SCHÜTZsche Überlegungen zur Intersubjektivität und Kommunikation verstehen wir Karten als eine der Strategien im Umgang mit der "mittleren Transzendenz" in der Kommunikation mit Anderen. Die "sozialwissenschaftliche Hermeneutik" (SOEFFNER) wird als eine methodische Herangehensweise an Karten und die Interaktionen, in denen sie Verwendung finden, vorgestellt. In unseren Analysen der in Rollenspielen genutzten Karten zeigen wir, dass Karten nicht nur dazu dienen, sich zu verorten, sondern auch ein Mittel sind, einen Ort zu erzeugen, zu dem wir in sinnhafter Beziehung stehen. Karten helfen so dabei, uns das Gefühl zu geben, zu einem (imaginären) – nur mittelbar gegebenen – Territorium hinzugehören.
In: Marriage & family review, Band 21, Heft 3-4, S. 1-4
ISSN: 1540-9635
In: The women's review of books, Band 19, Heft 12, S. 14
In: The women's review of books, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 20
In: The women's review of books, Band 10, Heft 10/11, S. 31