2024 AM Physics and Fiction - Revision history

Anna Auguscik at 13:33, 6 January 2025

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	*'''Modul:''' ang622 ('Akzentsetzung'), phy355 (physikalische Wahlstudien), pb113, pb114		*'''Modul:''' ang622 ('Akzentsetzung'), phy355 (physikalische Wahlstudien), pb113, pb114
	*'''Lecturer:''' Petra Groß and [[User:Anna Auguscik\|Anna Auguscik]]		*'''Lecturer:''' Petra Groß and [[User:Anna Auguscik\|Anna Auguscik]]

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	===Online Session: 24 April===		===Online Session: 24 April===
	*Reading and discussion: physics and fiction		*Reading and discussion: literature and science -- physics and fiction
			*Aura Heydenreich and Klaus Mecke, "Physics and Literature" (2022);
			*Anton Kirchhofer and Natalie Roxburgh, "The Scientist as 'Problematic Individual' in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction" (2016)

	===Reading Week: 1 May===		===Reading Week: 1 May===
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	===Online Session: 8 May===		===Online Session: 8 May===
	*Reading and discussion: ~~text~~ 1		*Reading and discussion: (1) Robinson, ''The Ministry for the Future''
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	===Online Session: 15 May===		===Online Session: 15 May===
	*Reading and discussion: ~~text~~ 2		*Reading and discussion: (2) Stephenson, ''Termination Shock''
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	===Online Session: 22 May===		===Online Session: 22 May===
	*Reading and discussion: ~~text~~ 3		*Reading and discussion: (3) Singh, ''Face''
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	===Online Session 19 June===		===Online Session 19 June===
	*Reading and discussion: ~~text~~ 4		*Reading and discussion: (4) Bush, ''Blaze Island''
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	:*Haynes		:*Haynes
	:*Narrative Turn in Science		:*Narrative Turn in Science
			:*Aura Heydenreich and Klaus Mecke, "Physics and Literature" (2022)

	===Climate Change, Clifi and Ecocriticism===		===Climate Change, Clifi and Ecocriticism===

Anna Auguscik at 15:58, 17 April 2024

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	===''Ministry of the Future''===		===''Ministry for the Future''===
	*Tomás Vergara. "Towards Postcapitalist Value in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." ''Science Fiction Studies'' 50.3 (November 2023): 415-430.		*Tomás Vergara. "Towards Postcapitalist Value in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." ''Science Fiction Studies'' 50.3 (November 2023): 415-430.
	*M. Keith Booker and Isra Daraiseh. "The Political Form of Postmodernism: Bakhtin, Jameson, and Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future." ''Science Fiction Studies'' 50.2 (July 2023): 251-270.		*M. Keith Booker and Isra Daraiseh. "The Political Form of Postmodernism: Bakhtin, Jameson, and Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future." ''Science Fiction Studies'' 50.2 (July 2023): 251-270.

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Anna Auguscik at 16:04, 26 February 2024

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Anna Auguscik at 14:45, 26 February 2024

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	*2023-06-30: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2023/06/30/congressionally-mandated-report-on-solar-radiation-modification/		*2023-06-30: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2023/06/30/congressionally-mandated-report-on-solar-radiation-modification/
	*2022-12-25: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/25/can-controversial-geoengineering-fix-climate-crisis		*2022-12-25: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/25/can-controversial-geoengineering-fix-climate-crisis
			*2022-01-17: https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.754
	*2021-05-12: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01243-0		*2021-05-12: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01243-0
	*2021-03-25: https://www.science.org/content/article/us-needs-solar-geoengineering-research-program-national-academies-says		*2021-03-25: https://www.science.org/content/article/us-needs-solar-geoengineering-research-program-national-academies-says

Anna Auguscik at 14:03, 26 February 2024

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	==Links==		==Links==
			*2023-09-28: https://epic.uchicago.edu/insights/david-keith-on-why-carbon-removal-wont-save-big-oil-but-may-help-the-climate/
			*2023-07-04: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/nachhaltigkeit-strategien-internationales/umweltrecht/umweltvoelkerrecht/geoengineering-governance
			*2023-06-30: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2023/06/30/congressionally-mandated-report-on-solar-radiation-modification/
			*2022-12-25: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/25/can-controversial-geoengineering-fix-climate-crisis
			*2021-05-12: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01243-0
			*2021-03-25: https://www.science.org/content/article/us-needs-solar-geoengineering-research-program-national-academies-says
			*2021-03-11: https://www.mpg.de/16569676/geoengineering
			*2018-07-12: https://www.bundestag.de/webarchiv/presse/hib/2018_07/564188-564188
			*2017-10-19: https://theconversation.com/geostorm-movie-shows-dangers-of-hacking-the-climate-we-need-to-talk-about-real-world-geoengineering-now-85866
			*2010: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-111hhrg53007/html/CHRG-111hhrg53007.htm
			*geoengineering, n.: first used in the early 1960s acc. to OED



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Anna Auguscik at 09:39, 22 January 2024

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	In addition, we will read excerpts from the following novels:		In addition, we will read excerpts from the following novels:
	*''Face'' by Jaspreet Singh (2022)		*''Face'' by Jaspreet Singh (2022)
			*''Termination Shock'' by Neal Stephenson (2021)
	*''The Ministry for the Future'' by Kim Stanley Robinson (2020)		*''The Ministry for the Future'' by Kim Stanley Robinson (2020)

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	*'''Course:''' 3.02.221		*'''Course:''' 3.02.221
	*'''Time~~:''' Wednesday 16-18h~~		*'''Time and Venue:''' regular online Stud.IP/BBB meetings, Wednesday 16-18h, and two longer sessions in presence Wednesday, 13-18h (tentatively scheduled for 29 May and 26 June)
	*'''Venue:''' online ~~via~~ Stud.IP, BBB meetings and two longer sessions in presence Wednesday, 13-18h (tentatively scheduled for 29 May and 26 June)

	*'''Course Description''':		*'''Course Description''':

Anna Auguscik at 19:34, 11 January 2024

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	*'''Course:''' 3.02.221		*'''Course:''' 3.02.221
	*'''Time:''' Wednesday 16-18h		*'''Time:''' Wednesday 16-18h
	*'''Venue:''' online via Stud.IP, BBB meetings and two longer ~~session~~ in presence Wednesday, 13-18h		*'''Venue:''' online via Stud.IP, BBB meetings and two longer sessions in presence Wednesday, 13-18h (tentatively scheduled for 29 May and 26 June)

	*'''Course Description''':		*'''Course Description''':
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	Physics has often been understood as the opposite of fiction: formulae vs narrative; reality vs constructedness; in short, fact vs fiction. This has not discouraged writers to take this very challenge, as a long genre tradition of science fiction attests. However, the interest on the part of what is considered 'literary fiction' seems to be more recent.		Physics has often been understood as the opposite of fiction: formulae vs narrative; reality vs constructedness; in short, fact vs fiction. This has not discouraged writers to take this very challenge, as a long genre tradition of science fiction attests. However, the interest on the part of what is considered 'literary fiction' seems to be more recent.

	In this summer semester, we offer a new interdisciplinary seminar called "Physics in contemporary fiction". In a rare setting with students from both the English and the Physics departments, we will read a science novel and science-related ~~short stories~~. We want to approach questions such as: How much science is contained in these texts and how is it incorporated? How important is it for the text? Is the representation correct or plausible? What is the underlying scientific context, and how does it relate to society or politics-related discussions? How do these writings join the 'two cultures' debate? And how can (becoming) physicists and literary scholars, or teachers of either discipline, profit from such a reading?		In this summer semester, we offer a new interdisciplinary seminar called "Physics in contemporary fiction". In a rare setting with students from both the English and the Physics departments, we will read one full science novel and other science-related literary fiction. We want to approach questions such as: How much science is contained in these texts and how is it incorporated? How important is it for the text? Is the representation correct or plausible? What is the underlying scientific context, and how does it relate to society or politics-related discussions? How do these writings join the 'two cultures' debate? And how can (becoming) physicists and literary scholars, or teachers of either discipline, profit from such a reading? This time, our focus will be on the topic of geoengineering.

	Please, '''buy and read''' the following novel ~~and short story anthology~~:		Please, '''buy and read''' the following novel:
	*Catherine Bush, ~~Blazing~~ Island		*Catherine Bush, ''Blaze Island'' (2020)

			In addition, we will read excerpts from the following novels:
			*''Face'' by Jaspreet Singh (2022)
			*''The Ministry for the Future'' by Kim Stanley Robinson (2020)

	PLEASE NOTE: Use the time until the beginning of term to immerse yourself in the reading of the novel and the short story anthology. Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available here and/or on Stud.IP.		PLEASE NOTE: Use the time until the beginning of term to immerse yourself in the reading of the novel and the short story anthology. Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available here and/or on Stud.IP.