Dr Alena Cicholewski
@alenacicholewski.bsky.social
Academic writing instructor who should follow her own advice more often
Sherryl Vint spricht hier auch über den gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit Science Fiction-Narrativen und ihrem affektiven Potential: „Es geht darum, die Realität selbst narrativ umzudeuten, darin einen Sinn zu finden angesichts ökonomischer und kultureller Marginalisierung.“
„Was für mich eine Dystopie war, ist für andere eine erstrebenswerte Zukunft.“ Die US-amerikanische Medienwissenschaftlerin und Sciencefiction-Forscherin Sherryl Vint im Gespräch mit Christine Lötscher von GdG. geschichtedergegenwart.ch/ich-verstehe...
„Ich verstehe Science Fiction inzwischen als rhetorische Strategie“
Science Fiction ist nicht nur ein künstlerisches Genre, sondern hat unseren Alltag erfasst. Dabei hat Science Fiction emanzipatorisches Potenzial und kann genauso gut antiliberal und populistisch vere...
geschichtedergegenwart.ch
October 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Sherryl Vint spricht hier auch über den gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit Science Fiction-Narrativen und ihrem affektiven Potential: „Es geht darum, die Realität selbst narrativ umzudeuten, darin einen Sinn zu finden angesichts ökonomischer und kultureller Marginalisierung.“
As much as I dislike rainy autumn days, being greeted by a rainbow on my way to work is pretty nice
October 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
As much as I dislike rainy autumn days, being greeted by a rainbow on my way to work is pretty nice
Had a fantastic time at this year’s annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung @jlugiessen.bsky.social - so many fascinating talks and I got to share my love for indie games and polar bears 😊
August 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Had a fantastic time at this year’s annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung @jlugiessen.bsky.social - so many fascinating talks and I got to share my love for indie games and polar bears 😊
There’s no better way to spend the weekend than enjoying @tinybookshopgame.com 📚 being reminded of all the awesome books I read and sharing the joy by recommending them to cute little NPCs (also: there’s a dog that can be petted 🥰)
August 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
There’s no better way to spend the weekend than enjoying @tinybookshopgame.com 📚 being reminded of all the awesome books I read and sharing the joy by recommending them to cute little NPCs (also: there’s a dog that can be petted 🥰)
Me and my book project
July 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Me and my book project
@dateeverythinggame.bsky.social is an excellent game! I just wanted to have a quick look at it yesterday and ended up spending several hours clicking through one hilarious dialogue after another (some many furniture-related puns!) and enjoying the great voice acting
Finally, the package you’ve been waiting for has arrived! 📦👓
🥰 Sandbox dating sim
😍 100 dateable characters
🔥 Fully voice-acted
🏡 Set in your own home
🎙️ An ENORMOUS cast
It’s time to Date Everything! 💝
dateeverything.com
youtu.be/v2Rv9zX3K24?...
🥰 Sandbox dating sim
😍 100 dateable characters
🔥 Fully voice-acted
🏡 Set in your own home
🎙️ An ENORMOUS cast
It’s time to Date Everything! 💝
dateeverything.com
youtu.be/v2Rv9zX3K24?...
Date Everything! Launch Trailer
YouTube video by Team17
youtu.be
June 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
@dateeverythinggame.bsky.social is an excellent game! I just wanted to have a quick look at it yesterday and ended up spending several hours clicking through one hilarious dialogue after another (some many furniture-related puns!) and enjoying the great voice acting
Had a great time talking about enfreakment in R.F. Kuang‘s Poppy War trilogy with my friend Krutika at what is probably the fanciest venue I’ve ever presented in @unileipzig.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Had a great time talking about enfreakment in R.F. Kuang‘s Poppy War trilogy with my friend Krutika at what is probably the fanciest venue I’ve ever presented in @unileipzig.bsky.social
How can horror media help us cope with crises? This is one of the questions my recently published chapter in "Coming to Terms with a Crisis" discusses using Christina Henry's "The Girl in Red" as an example. You download it for free here: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
March 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
How can horror media help us cope with crises? This is one of the questions my recently published chapter in "Coming to Terms with a Crisis" discusses using Christina Henry's "The Girl in Red" as an example. You download it for free here: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
Celebrating the publication of my first co-authored academic article (while stuck in an overcrowded train): journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/ge...
"There is no better place for friendships than Canton": Painting Canton as a Queer Space in Amitav Ghosh's River of Smoke (2011)
| gender forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies
journals.ub.uni-koeln.de
January 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Celebrating the publication of my first co-authored academic article (while stuck in an overcrowded train): journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/ge...
Join me later today at #VICFA for my presentation on "Unsettling Canadian mythmaking in The Pixel Hunt‘s 'Inua - A Story in Ice and Time'"
October 25, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Join me later today at #VICFA for my presentation on "Unsettling Canadian mythmaking in The Pixel Hunt‘s 'Inua - A Story in Ice and Time'"
In diesem Thread sind so viele spannende Empfehlungen!
Okay Bluesky, Indie-Orakel-Zeit!
RT und antworte auf diesen Skeet und ich empfehle dir ein mehr oder weniger obskures Indiespiel, das zu dir passt!
#IndieOrakel
RT und antworte auf diesen Skeet und ich empfehle dir ein mehr oder weniger obskures Indiespiel, das zu dir passt!
#IndieOrakel
a man says let 's go do what we do while talking to another man
ALT: a man says let 's go do what we do while talking to another man
media.tenor.com
October 18, 2024 at 7:54 PM
In diesem Thread sind so viele spannende Empfehlungen!
First day back in the office after a two week vacation...
October 4, 2024 at 8:42 AM
First day back in the office after a two week vacation...
I had a great time at this year’s annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung 🥰
September 8, 2024 at 11:16 AM
I had a great time at this year’s annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung 🥰
Auf geht’s nach Kassel zur Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung!
September 4, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Auf geht’s nach Kassel zur Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung!
My mood today:
August 21, 2024 at 7:06 AM
My mood today:
"Writing has become a mirror in which we come face to face with our own flaws, grotesquely distorted by the expectations of those who judge us" (Sword, Trofimova & Ballard, 380).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Frustrated academic writers
This paper aims to start a conversation about a common yet under-examined emotion experienced by academic writers worldwide: frustration. What is frustration, exactly? What are its causes and effec...
www.tandfonline.com
August 20, 2024 at 10:19 AM
"Writing has become a mirror in which we come face to face with our own flaws, grotesquely distorted by the expectations of those who judge us" (Sword, Trofimova & Ballard, 380).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@midnightpals.bsky.social inspired me to finally read Meg Elison’s "The Pill" and - wow - what an intense reading experience, so relatable and bittersweet
May 22, 2024 at 7:46 PM
@midnightpals.bsky.social inspired me to finally read Meg Elison’s "The Pill" and - wow - what an intense reading experience, so relatable and bittersweet