文学作品中的具身科学: 技术政治与感官之间的工业艺术符号学

Theoretical fiction is a conceptual construct that emerges out of speculative practices of science ( whether theoretical or fictional) within the world building practices of fiction (that could be literary, performative, visual, or ludic). Therefore, the theoretical fictional field uses the world of fiction as a semiotic reference for ‘playing around’ with science theories in an imaginative-creative medium, yet containing the possibility of transforming into actual scientific theories/experiments by translating the fictional-narrative possibilities into scientific arguments that could be further developed through available real-world tools. Theoretical fictional is different from conventional development of scientific theories by being unfettered by real-world science constraints while capable of stretching out these constraints.
Theoretical fiction of science as a semiotical practice is investigated through the four acts of technoscientific emergence. Three works of science fiction, Quarantine by Greg Egan, Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman, and Distances by Vandana Singh are used to support the elaboration of these four acts. Through the four acts and analytical elaboration of the selected works of science fiction, it is proposed that theoretical-fictional field could fill existing gap between the epistemic focus in the development of more conventional scientific theories and the deployment of science fiction for forecasting social change.