Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition) ›› 2025, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (1): 98-110.
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Abstract: With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the rapid development of modern technology has triggered unprecedented technological anxiety. As a literary form closely tied to technological development, science fiction has a unique relational mechanism with technological anxiety. However, academic research on this topic remains insufficient. The essence of technological anxiety lies in the“entanglement of possibilities”caused by“enframing,”wherein“enframing”unconceals the real world while simultaneously concealing its authenticity with infinite possibilities. Science fiction, often based on speculations about technological novum, represents“possibilities that have not occurred.”By unconcealing surreal worlds, it materializes possibilities and thereby responds to the technological anxiety of the real world. The technological novum in science fiction as a way of revealing is in the sense of“technê,”which not only constructs surreal worlds but also reflects upon the real world. As an“art of possibilities”oscillating between concealment and unconcealment, science fiction exhibits diversity and complexity, with its ability to alleviate technological anxiety, albeit relatively and limitedly.
Key words: technological anxiety, science fiction, Heidegger, philosophy of technology, enframing; concealment, unconcealment
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ZHAO Siqi. Concealment/Unconcealment: Relation Between Technological Anxiety and Science Fiction[J]. Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition), 2025, 42(1): 98-110.
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