Essays about: "modern fiction"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 34 essays containing the words modern fiction.

1. 6. Dark Matter signals at the Large Hadron Collider with Deep Learning

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informationsteknologi

   Author : Max Andersson; Edward Glöckner; Carl Löfkvist; [2023]
   Keywords : Machine Learning; Dark Matter; Classification; Regression; Particle Physics; Supersymmetry; LHC; CERN;

   Abstract : While holding a firm position in popular culture and science fiction, Dark Matter (DM) is nonetheless a highly relevant topic at the forefront of modern particle physics. We study the applicability of characterizing DM particle candidates SUSY neutralino and sneutrino using Deep Learning (DL) methods. READ MORE

3. 7. Moving Cities of the Future : The Power of Anticipation Fiction Over Our Modern Social Imaginaries

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Laurine Avice; [2023]
   Keywords : social imaginaries; fiction; moving cities; future;

   Abstract : The future is constantly growing as a more and more significant matter of interest, both in the academic fields and in everyday conversations. This thesis focuses on a specific perspective of the future: what if cities were no longer static by nature, but cruising across the world? By analysing three works of literary fiction, the aim is to illustrate how fiction, and more specifically ‘anticipation fiction’, can participate in shaping our social imaginaries, the understanding we have of the world, both when it comes to our present and our future. READ MORE

4. 8. Compounding the Problem? : Gated Communities in Climate and Environmental Disaster Fiction

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Author : Ryan Nicholas Walsh; [2023]
   Keywords : Octavia E. Butler; The Parable of the Sower; The Parable of the Talents; Naughty Dog; The Last of Us; The Last of Us: Part II; Neil Blomkamp; Elysium; ecocriticism; post-apocalypse; critical dystopia; climate change criticism; gated community; urban studies; agency; the Other; video game studies; ergodic literature.; Octavia E. Butler; The Parable of the Sower; The Parable of the Talents; Naughty Dog; The Last of Us; The Last of Us: Part II; Neil Blomkamp; Elysium; ekokritik; postapokalyps; kritisk dystopi; klimatfiktion; grindsamhällen; urbana studier; agens; det Andra; spelforskning; ergodisk litteratur.;

   Abstract : The gated community motif occurs frequently within climate and environmental disaster fiction. This thesis investigates its occurrence across three media to establish how the gated community mode of living, as rendered in post-apocalyptic speculative fiction, responds to the threat and consequences of climate and environmental crisis. READ MORE

5. 9. I Never Learned To Type With Ten Fingers

   University essay from Konstfack/Grafisk design & illustration

   Author : Laslo Strong; [2022]
   Keywords : typography; blackletter; fraktur; history; calligraphy; typewriting; technology; type design; graphic design; family; typeface; urban; photography; fiction; slash-fiction; Second World War; Polen; Germany;

   Abstract : Luise Schröder founded a private business school in 1910 in Stettin, a city once part of Germany. With a focus on typewriting and stenography, she was a local educator of modern communication. Throughout four generations, her family was impacted by global technological developments and socio-political shifts. READ MORE

6. 10. Exposing Masculinities : Reframing the Hardboiled Detective in Lehane’s Shutter Island

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Payvand Behnam Nikou; [2022]
   Keywords : noir fiction; masculinity; hardboiled; gender; Shutter Island;

   Abstract : This literary study examines the relationship between the hardboiled detective and the 2003 detective novel Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. Known for his thought provoking stories as a crime novelist, Lehane exemplifies the desire of a current literary shift from stoic patriarchal constructs of detective archetypes towards a more feminist perspective. READ MORE