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Problems communicating the genuinely alien in sci-fi
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Module 1
Foundations: Analyzing Non-Human Consciousness in Fiction
1
Signaling Alien Consciousness: Narrative Techniques
Identify the narrative techniques authors use to signal alien or non-human consciousness (e.g., narrative voice, focalization, deixis).
2
Defamiliarization in Non-Human Perspectives
Analyze how defamiliarization operates in passages describing non-human sensory experience or conceptual frameworks.
3
Alien Minds: Scaffolding vs. Alterity
Distinguish between the use of anthropomorphic scaffolding and attempts at radical alterity in depicting alien thought.
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