Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic science»
Hawking is indulging in apocalyptic science fiction.
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The show, based around a film shot on drone in Qatar, examines the idea of «disaster capitalism» encoded into the shopping malls of the world, taking inspiration from the apocalyptic science fiction of JG Ballard.
And Pierre Huyghe phenomenally transformed an indoor ice skating rink into the set of an apocalyptic science fiction film.
By popular demand of beta readers and friends, my first novel, a post apocalyptic science fiction novel, is back on the docket.
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I've spent months writing a series of apocalyptic science fiction novelettes and novellas that I planned to begin publishing in September, in order to try to succeed with what was the hottest new way to sell books: series!
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We didn't understand that when we read ancient Hebrew prose poems (like Genesis 1), wisdom literature (like Proverbs), or apocalyptic literature (like Revelation) as if they were science textbooks, we were actually obscuring their meaning.»
It is well known that Hegel could conclude his lectures on the philosophy of history by speaking of the last stage of history as our own world and our own time, but it is not well known that this apocalyptic ground is absolutely fundamental to his two most ultimate works, the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Science of Logic.
But, whereas in ancient times the apocalyptic writers expected God to usher in the new world, the first science fiction authors described a future created by human invention.
An apocalyptic message about climate change might motivate some people to act but make others feel hopeless, science communication experts say.
Pair that with hyper - real graphics and a grounding in science (the game's apocalyptic fungal plague is Cordyceps, a real - world pathogen), and you've got an experience as terrifying as it is terrific.
«The last thing humanity needs right now is an apocalyptic cult masquerading as science.»
A great classic adventure game with an amazing retro art style and unusual story set in a rare fantasy world that connects science - finstion and post apocalyptic novels
This is no Disney fable and the apocalyptic vision isn't for everyone, but science - fiction fans and adventurous filmgoers will find this ingenious explosion of retro - cyberpunk a compelling dystopian vision with a gleam of hope.
I couldn't help but think that the way Lifeforce was combining science fiction with the supernatural with apocalyptic elements that it was just a ripoff of John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness.
Obsessed with the science of time travel and acutely aware of the world around him, Donnie is isolated by his powers of analysis and the apocalyptic visions that no one else seems to share.
Indulging in the fantasy of starting over with a clean slate using science equal parts ridiculous and schmaltzy, the destruction is fun to watch in the way that apocalyptic films always are, the only fantasy element that stretches the bounds of credulity when née - Cheney takes responsibility for his bad decisions and apologizes to the nation.
A new restoration of Geoff Murphy's apocalyptic The Quiet Earth (1985), the first science fiction movie from New Zealand, plays through the week at Grand Illusion.
The new movie, which held its premiere here Tuesday night ahead of its Paramount release this weekend, is alternatively an abduction thriller, monster flick, science - fiction reverie, character comedy, horror pinprick, apocalyptic drama, duct - tape - and - chewing - gum chamber piece and alien - invasion movie.
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«No Such Thing as Werewolves» is a science fiction novel that brings together ancient civilizations, an apocalyptic threat, and werewolves — the result is a story that's tense and exciting...»
They have the credentials to back it up: Adams is the Hugo Award - winning editor of the Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy series, as well as of the digital magazines Lightspeed and Nightmare; Howey is the bestselling author of the apocalyptic Silo Series, which began with Wool, a self - publishing phenomenon.
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Drawing on extracts from apocalyptic works by Octavia Butler and Mary Shelley, the film employs a science fiction device which invites viewers to imagine the excavation and dissection of modern life from a future point in time.
J.G. Ballard was an English writer associated with new wave science fiction, although he, himself, despised the term and preferred to categorise his work as «apocalyptic.»
Magdy's references abound: they range from the slick veneer of advertising, the sinister tropes of science fiction and comic strip to the documentary style of nature, science and technology shows and the apocalyptic tone of biblical stories.
Richardson is fascinated by the ways we connect with landscape; within her deeply layered practice, she draws on narrative devices used in science fiction and B - movie horror films, as well as nineteenth - century landscape painting, with particular interest in the apocalyptic conjurings of John Martin (British, 1789 - 1854).
The new Tate Modern installation involves a gigantic replica of a Louise Bourgeois spider, rows of bleak metal bunk beds with paperback science fiction novels laid out on them, and a screen showing a montage of disaster and apocalyptic footage.
One of the interesting results by Tony and others working on the NY and similar national studies was that even the majority of those who expressed apocalyptic connotations with global warming far beyond anything supported by the science were unwilling to pay more at the pump for gas to reduce carbon emissions.
That said, and regarding «AIT», much as I admire Al Gore's sentiment, I think the use of exaggeration and apocalyptic language actually works * against * the clarity of the climate science, such as it stands at present, rather than promoting clarity.
Nick Odoni wrote: «I think the use of exaggeration and apocalyptic language actually works * against * the clarity of the climate science, such as it stands at present, rather than promoting clarity.»
This is how the upbeat new apocalyptic book by science writer Annalee Newitz, the lead editor of the engaging tech / science / entertainment Web site io9, summarizes the strategies that could allow the human species to persist if faced with the kind of epic disruptions to Earth's environment that have periodically erased the majority of living things.
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The problem is that this science is much newer even than climate change, has even less certainty and is as much infused with apocalyptic visions of future states.
Despite Garvey's claims that there is more to understanding climate change than the «science», without the «science» narrating the apocalyptic story driving environmental ethics, there is nothing for the moral philosopher to consider; it is «unethical» not to «do something» to «combat climate change».
Mann's hockey stick vastly expanded the market for such cartoon certainties, and enabled the climate apocalyptics to hijack an entire field of science.
Mr Cox said his study showed there was less need to worry about apocalyptic visions of the future, such as those presented in the 2007 award - winning science book Six Degrees — Our Future on a Hotter Planet, which had an image on the cover of a tidal wave breaking over Big Ben.
The high proportion of people that went into climate science over the last 20 years seemed to be wraped up in the saving the world / apocalyptic vision thoughts of climate and weather.
The report also says that most of the benefits of climate mitigation policies in the short term will come in the form of public health co-benefits from reduced air pollution, suggesting that climate advocacy will be well served to move away from debates over climate science and apocalyptic doomsaying, instead focusing on the multiple benefits in the near term of moving toward cleaner energy sources.
Little surprise, then, that Romm felt the need to attack the views of environment writer Gregg Easterbrook for writing a critical review of Friedman's book, which relied heavily on Romm's apocalyptic interpretation of the climate science.
Efforts to use climate science to threaten an apocalyptic future should we fail to embrace green proposals, and to characterize present - day natural disasters as terrifying previews of an impending day of reckoning, have only served to undermine the credibility of both climate science and progressive energy policy.
Surprisingly for a statement coming from an academy of «science,» the document is riddled with unscientific assertions in a bizarre mix of political ideology and apocalyptic hyperbole.
I'm aware what passes for debate amongst warmists, there's the apocalyptic alarmists to whip up unthinking hysteria and the pessimistic alarmists to try and cloak their AGW king in the robes of science.
The blurb screams «alarmist millenarian rant» at me, and if I want to read apocalyptic fantasy I've already got a reasonable collection of science fiction...
On many occasions, I have discussed the bad science that goes into these apocalyptic forecasts.