Archivization and the Archive-as-Utopia in H.G. Wells's The First Men in the Moon and "The Empire of the Ants".
At one point in Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (1995), Jacques Derrida waxes speculatively upon what "might have been'' had late-twentieth century archives and archival technologies been available in the Victorian era. Engaging in an act of "retrospective science fiction" to ruminate upon the...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 1 - 20 |
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