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- Title
"Collective Reason": A Proposal (1971, rev. 2000).
- Authors
Takumi, Shibano
- Abstract
This essay posits the defining feature of science fiction as the investigation of what the author provisionally calls "human collective reason." Encompassing religions, ideologies, and sciences, collective reason is the internal logic of a time and culture, a set of beliefs and practices that have their origin in necessity but that eventually develop autonomously, beyond individual need, understanding, and control. Shibano suggests that the coming computer society will bring about the next evolutionary change in collective reason, rendering our present understanding obsolete. What is needed to cope with this changing reality is a new posthumanist perspective—a flexible understanding that avoids the pitfalls of both absolutism and relativism. Among the people who best embody that perspective are readers of science fiction.
- Subjects
JAPAN; JAPANESE science fiction; POPULAR culture
- Publication
Science Fiction Studies, 2002, Vol 29, Issue 3, p351
- ISSN
0091-7729
- Publication type
Literary Criticism