Revising Reality
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-43962-7 (ISBN)
Novels, comics, films, and TV shows can continue previous events (sequels), reinterpret events (retcons), or restart events (remakes), and audiences can ignore any of these revisions (rejects). Drawing on these four kinds of revision derived from franchises such as Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, and Marvel comics, Chris Gavaler and Nat Goldberg make sense of the stories we tell about a remarkable range of actual events, including scientific discoveries, Supreme Court cases, historical moments, folk heroes, and even trans names and human memory.
They ask: –
What happened to the original, green-scaled dinosaurs after scientists decided dinosaurs had multi-colored feathers?
When overturning Roe v. Wade, did the Supreme Court end the right to abortion, or did the Court claim that the right of the previous half century never existed?
Since Ronald Reagan increased taxes, expanded government, and championed amnesty for undocumented immigrants, who is the Ronald Reagan whom today’s conservatives champion as a model president?
When a trans person comes out as trans, has their gender changed or has their gender remained consistent?
Are our memories accounts of real events or some kind (or kinds) of revision? And if our memories are in flux, what does that say about our memory-dependent identities?
Revising Reality answers these and so many more questions, providing surprising new tools for explaining the world and our relationship to it.
Chris Gavaler is Associate Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, USA. He is the author of On the Origin of Superheroes (2015), Superhero Comics (Bloomsbury 2017), Superhero Thought Experiments (with Nathaniel Goldberg, 2019), Creating Comics (with Leigh Ann Beavers, Bloomsbury 2020), Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith: A Philosophical Account (with Nathaniel Goldberg, 2021), and The Comics Form (Bloomsbury 2022). Nathaniel Goldberg is Professor of Philosophy at Washington and Lee University, USA. He is the author of Kantian Conceptual Geography (2014), Superhero Thought Experiments (with Chris Gavaler, 2019) and Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith: A Philosophical Account (with Chris Gavaler, 2022).
Introduction: the Histories of History
Sequels
Remakes
Retcons
Rejects
Moving Forward
1. Rejecting Possibilities
Unforced
Exorcised
Unearthed
Mandated
TERFed
Gated
Re-versed
Barred
2. Rewriting History
Storying Origins
Revering Paul
Amending Men
Trumping Thomas
Queering Authors
Canceling Culture
Hiding History
3. Making America
Resolving Winners
Remaking America (Great Again)
Reckoning Reagan
Criticizing the Common Core
Objecting to Obamacare
Revising Racism
Criticizing Critical Race Theory
Taking Tenure
4. Retconning Law
Ridged Klingons v. Ridgeless Klingons
Ministers and Genomes v. Winnie the Pooh
Buses v. Cars and Cocaine Trafficking
Judicial Retcons v. Legal Sequels
Metaphysics v. Epistemology
Cannons v. Stun Guns
People v. People
SCOTUS v. Disregarding Citizens
5. Knowing Science
Planets and Dwarves
Lizards and Birds
Hobbits and Hoaxes
Counseling and Cognition
Ulcers and Ivermectin
Paradigms and Shifts
6. Naming Change
A Knight and a Lord
A Caliph and a Prince
Two Marriages and a Divorce
Two Women
A Baby and Dear Abby
A Star, a King, and a Kennedy
A Building and an Institution
A Man, a Person, and a Corporation
A Person and an Alias
7. Changing Minds
Encoring Yesterdays
Categorizing Villains
Theorizing Characters
Alternating Worlds
Justifying Cartoonists
Combating Memories
Forgetting Selves
Continuing People
Philosophizing Brains
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.05.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-43962-2 / 1350439622 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-43962-7 / 9781350439627 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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