This article argues that the work of the sociologist Daniel Bell can help to clarify science fiction’s relationship to the future by (1) distinguishing between social forecasting and the prediction of future events; and (2) showing how social forecasting and science fiction can both provide a more or less plausible imaginative frame for raising, exploring, and making sense of the “agenda of questions” that a future society is liable to confront. It goes on to argue that science fiction takes social forecasting a step further than Bell through its awareness of how such forecasting can bring about change in the present. This article therefore identifies one way in which sociology and science fiction can be mutually beneficial without reducing one to the other.
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{"title":"Understanding Media in\u0000 Fahrenheit 451","authors":"Suk Won Lim","doi":"10.3828/extr.2023.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2023.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45820569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do Androids Dream of Racialization?","authors":"L. J. Fernandez","doi":"10.3828/extr.2023.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2023.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42790033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New York 2140","authors":"Pavla Veselá","doi":"10.3828/extr.2023.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2023.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48672204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rob Latham, Paul March-Russell, John Rieder, Sara Martín, Alexander Radison, Ruby Niemann, Leon Marvell, Jim G. Clarke, D. Harlan Wilson
{"title":"Reviews of Books","authors":"Rob Latham, Paul March-Russell, John Rieder, Sara Martín, Alexander Radison, Ruby Niemann, Leon Marvell, Jim G. Clarke, D. Harlan Wilson","doi":"10.3828/extr.2023.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2023.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135574071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Section: “Beyond Petromodernity”","authors":"Francis Gene-Rowe, Michael Fuchs, S. Rabitsch","doi":"10.3828/extr.2023.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2023.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43393543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A duet, in which your goal is to kill your partner”","authors":"Matthew Oliver","doi":"10.3828/extr.2023.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2023.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42992,"journal":{"name":"EXTRAPOLATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46341802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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