Laboratories for Global Space-Time: Science-Fictionality and the World's Fairs, 1851-1939.
This article examines the world's fair movement between The Great Exhibition of 1851 and The New York World's Fair of 1939, suggesting that these sites are science-fictional spaces that expose their mass audiences to forms of space-time compression that enable early figurations of globalization. Fai...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 385 - 401 |
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University of California Press
Nov2012
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