Mastodawn

#Protopian — a word coined by Kevin Kelly, one of our contest's judges—means an achievable, optimistic future characterized by continuous, incremental progress rather than revolutionary leaps or a static, perfect state. Protopian stories imagine a future that is neither flawless nor catastrophic, but instead workably better than today. It's about plausible progress rather than perfection or collapse.

Joly MacFie Apr 30

WEBINAR 20 MAY 16:30 UTC – Folk Tech x Protopian Prize – Storytelling Workshop + Connection Call

On Wednesday, May 20 2026 at 12:30-14:00 EDT (16:30-18:00 UTC) Folktech will join with Protopian Prize to host a Storytelling Workshop.

The Protopian Prize is a fiction contest that asks what we can envision as people working toward liberatory futures, meeting

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#post #2026 #FolkTech #future #protopian #storytelling

labelsonhumans Jan 2, 2023

But, as [David Foster]Wallace saw it, irony could critique but it couldn’t nourish or redeem. He told McCaffery, “Look, man, we’d probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?”

#metamodernism #art #mentalhealth #fiction #protopian

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/09/the-unfinished#:~:text=The%20writer%20David%20Foster%20Wallace,been%20in%20a%20deep%20depression.