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Adam Blinkinsop
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“Thomas Clareson, the least fussy of all major scholars of science fiction when it comes to generic definitions, nonetheless insists that belief in progress is an absolute prerequisite to the formation of science fiction (“Emergence” 5).”
― Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
― Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
“In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.”
― On War
― On War
“The opposition of the unbounded, anarchic sea to the national, political organization of the land is far more important to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea than is the design or practicality of Captain Nemo’s submarine.”
― Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
― Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
“Without reducing the complex political and cultural history of colonialism to mere secondary effects of a primary economic process, one still can say that one of the most comprehensive and inclusive ways to think about colonialism is by way of its role in the construction of a world-wide, unified capitalist economy,”
― Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
― Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
“The outcome of the battle was generally acknowledged by both winners and losers because by waging war both parties had tacitly entered a contract of chance. Chance, or sors, as jurists called it, formed the basis for the legitimacy of victory, but to have a legally binding effect, the pitched battle was regarded as a whole.”
― Empire of Chance: The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things
― Empire of Chance: The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things
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