Yucky gets yummy: how speculative fiction creates society
Human biology creates empathy through storytelling and emulation. Throughout history, humans have honed their capacity to understand optimum storytelling and relate to others in new ways. The bioethical concepts of Leon Kass’s Wisdom of Repugnance and Arthur Caplan’s Yuck Factor attempt to...
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Grupo de Investigación Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales. Cibersomosaguas
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/64857 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=es/es-028&d=article64857oai |
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empathy; fantasy; monster; other; science fiction; superheroes ciencia ficción; empatía; fantasía; monstruos; otros; superhéroes empatía; fantasia; monstros; “outro”; ficção científica; super heróis |
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empathy; fantasy; monster; other; science fiction; superheroes ciencia ficción; empatía; fantasía; monstruos; otros; superhéroes empatía; fantasia; monstros; “outro”; ficção científica; super heróis Manney, PJ. Yucky gets yummy: how speculative fiction creates society |
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Human biology creates empathy through storytelling and emulation. Throughout history, humans have honed their capacity to understand optimum storytelling and relate to others in new ways. The bioethical concepts of Leon Kass’s Wisdom of Repugnance and Arthur Caplan’s Yuck Factor attempt to describe, and in Kass’s case even support, society’s abhorrence of that which is strange, against God or nature, or simply the “other.” However, speculative fiction has been assessing the “other” for as long as we’ve told speculative stories. The last thousand years of social liberalization and technological progress in Western civilization can be linked to these stories through feedback loops of storytelling, technological inspiration and acceptance, and social change by growing the audience’s empathy for these speculative characters. Selecting highlights of speculative fiction as far back as the Bible and as recently as the latest movie blockbusters, society has grappled back and forth on whether monsters, superhumans, aliens, and the “other” are considered villainous, frightening and yucky, or heroic, aspirational and yummy. The larger historical arc of speculative fiction, technological acceptance and history demonstrates the clear shift from yucky to yummy. Works include The Bible, Talmud, stories of alchemists and the Brazen Head, Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, gothic horror films of Germany and the U.S., Superman and the Golden Age of comics, and recent blockbusters, among others. |
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