To Seek Out New Worlds

Science Fiction and World Politics

By: J. Weldes

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Paperback | 1 May 2003 | Edition Number 1

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This volume explores the science fiction/world politics intertext. Through detailed analyses of such texts as "Blade Runner", "Stalker", "Star Trek", and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", the chapters in this volume examine the complex and sometimes contradictory relations between world politics, both as discipline and as practice, and discourses of science fiction. Offering a novel combination of popular culture analysis with major theoretical and empirical issues concerning world politics, "Science Fiction and World Politics" provides insights into the discursive constitution of both science fiction and world politics while highlighting the occasional challenges that the science fiction/world politics intertext launches at our common sense.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Popular Culture, Science Fiction, and World Politics: Exploring Intertextual Relations	p. 1
World Politics in Outer Space
"To know him was to love him. Not to know him was to love him from afar": Diplomacy in Star Trek	p. 31
Bumpy Space: Imperialism and Resistance in Star Trek: The Next Generation	p. 53
Aliens Among US
Aliens, Alien Nations, and Alienation in American Political Economy and Popular Culture	p. 79
Demon Diasporas: Confronting the Other and the Other-Worldly in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel	p. 99
Forbidden Places, Tempting Spaces, and the Politics of Desire: On Stalker and Beyond	p. 123
Future Worlds, Alternative Imaginings
Representation is Futile? American Anti-Collectivism and the Borg	p. 143
The Problem of the "World and Beyond": Encountering "The Other" in Science Fiction	p. 169
Feminist Futures: Science Fiction, Utopia, and the Art of Possibilities in World Politics	p. 195
Contributors	p. 221
Index	p. 223
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