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Adam Blinkinsop
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“Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“The key element linking colonial ideology to science fiction’s fascination with new technology is the new technology’s scarcity.”
― Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
― Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
“I am not trying to argue that colonialism is science fiction’s hidden truth. I want to show that it is part of the genre’s texture, a persistent, important component of its displaced references to history, its engagement in ideological production, and its construction of the possible and the imaginable.”
― 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 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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