By Steven Gil
ISBN-10: 1442256192
ISBN-13: 9781442256194
In Science Wars during the Stargate: Explorations of technology and Society in Stargate SG-1, Steven Gil deals the 1st in-depth research of the sequence and locations it within the context of latest debates concerning the nature of medical suggestion. Gil contends that representations of technological know-how inside SG-1 should be extra totally understood during the prism of the technology Wars. clinical rules positioned forth in SG-1 display how such complicated highbrow exchanges and debates have a spot in pop culture and will be additional understood via those fictional articulations. even supposing SG-1 serves because the imperative case learn, the research additionally casts gentle at the function and place of technology in technology fiction tv extra in general.
The long-form narrative of Stargate SG-1 enabled it to have interaction, in subtle methods, with the various questions at factor within the technological know-how Wars. because the writer illustrates, the convey provided a fancy, subtle portrait of technology and scientists at a time whilst the medical company was once lower than excessive public scrutiny. Science Wars in the course of the Stargate will be of curiosity to technological know-how fiction students and fanatics of the sequence, but additionally to these attracted to the public’s evolving knowing of technology and its function in society.
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