Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

No.3, 2023

The Imaginative Resources of Online Science Fiction and Its Aesthetic Paradigm

(Abstract)

Bao Yuanfu

In different dimensions such as the construction of “new language” and “new knowledge,” the change of literary paradigm, and the creation of the “post-human image,” online science fiction has built a unique imaginative discourse system. Online science fiction’s “reproduction” of imagination is based on the macroscopic vision of technological innovation and civilizational development in the real world, stimulates the experience of “cool literature” through the imaginative coding of spectacle, and relies on the rhetorical paradigm of the “self-reflexive construction” of imagination to reflect on the poetic connotations of history, the present and the future, providing a realistic perspective for the disciplinary construction of science fiction literary theory and its renewal of discourse.