N. K. Jemisin’s Dream Worlds
The sci-fi writer’s inventive, intricate novels have defied convention and sold millions of copies.
“Science fiction reaches into the future, the past, the human mind. It reaches out to other worlds... Is it really so limited, then, that it cannot reach into the lives of ordinary everyday humans who happen not to be white?”
By Raffi Khatchadourian
#sciencefiction #scifi
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/27/nk-jemisins-dream-worlds
This Science Fiction Novelist Created a Feminist Language from Scratch
There's Even a Word For Emotional Labor!
By Rebecca Romney
#Futurism #sciencefiction #scifi #feminism
https://lithub.com/this-science-fiction-novelist-created-a-feminist-language-from-scratch/
How ‘Blade Runner’ and Sci-Fi Made Everything Dystopian
"Science fiction, especially Blade Runner, has spawned so many dystopias that dystopia itself has become banal. We need a new utopianism that embraces the city"
By Manu Saadia @manusaadia
#sciencefiction #Dystopia #utopia #bladerunner #scifi
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-01/in-our-dystopian-times-why-not-strive-for-utopia
Fantasy And Sci-fi Are Leading The Way In More Racially-Diverse Casting
"In a world where there’s an elf doing magic at the next table, who’s going to care about your skin colour?"
Christian Harimanow
We should all be reading more Ursula Le Guin
Her novels imagine other worlds, but her theory of fiction can help us better live in this one.
by Siobhan Leddy
#sciencefiction #utopia #futurism #UrsulaLeGuin
https://theoutline.com/post/7886/ursula-le-guin-carrier-bag-theory
There's a massive free catalogue of Indigenous films online — here are 5 picks to get you started
"Indigenous filmmakers and curators share their must-see recommendations from the NFB's catalogue"
This story was originally published April 18th, 2018. Last Updated: June 21, 2022
Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto
…This is a transmission from a future that will not happen. From a people who do not exist…
“The end is near. Or has it come and gone before?”
– An ancestor
Why can we imagine the ending of the world, yet not the ending of colonialism?
#indigenous #futurism #colonialism #utopia #liberation
https://www.indigenousaction.org/rethinking-the-apocalypse-an-indigenous-anti-futurist-manifesto/
Imagining an Indigenous science-fiction festival for the stay-home era
by Drew Hayden Taylor
Survival Is Indigenous
"Science fiction informs the future... Yet most of the science fiction I see today is apocalyptic. As an indigenous person, I don’t relate to these narratives, as my people have already survived an apocalypse"
Cannupe Hanska Luger
#indigenous #sciencefiction #scifi #utopia #Dystopia
https://www.newmexicomagazine.org/blog/post/cannupa-hanska-luger/
From growing medicine to space rockets: What is Indigenous futurism?
interview with Grace Dillon editor of Walking the Clouds An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction
Kyle Muzyka
“What’s A Story Like You Doing In A Place Like This?”:
Cyberspace And Indigenous Futurism
For many uninformed readers Indigenous Science Fiction (sf) is an oxymoron. But Indigenous authors, programmers and artists have been imaging futures in speculative fiction and the digital for deca…
Indigenous science (fiction) for the Anthropocene: Ancestral dystopias and fantasies of climate change crises
Kyle P. Whyte
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, Volume 1, Issue 1-2
Future as the Present: Science Fiction Utopias and Dystopias from the Muslim World
by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
#muslimfuturism #sciencefiction #utopia #dystopia #islam #futurism
An Old New World
When One People’s Sci-Fi Is Another People’s Past
by Abaki Beck
Famous Sci-Fi Scenes Painted As 16th Century Ottoman Miniatures
Today in Awesome
By Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez
In what amounts to be the coolest thesis project ever, Istanbul artist Murat Palta depicted scenes from popular Western films using classic motifs from 16th century Ottoman miniatures, including a lot of moments from our favorite science fiction classics. Hit the jump to marvel at his art/mourn the mediocrity of your thesis in comparison!
First Contact with Possible Futures
"Afrofuturisms, along with disability, refugee, queer, and other futures, use creative speculation and resistance imagination to unnaturalize oppression. A better world is possible."
by Michael Oman-Reagan
#afrofuturism #sciencefiction #queer #indigenous #scifi #futurism
https://culanth.org/fieldsights/first-contact-with-possible-futures
If You Really Want to Unlearn Racism, Read Black Sci-Fi Authors
"While we fight for the world of our dreams, we should read pieces from the people who have already created it."
by Cree Myles
#sciencefiction #scifi #racism #afrofuturism #utopia
https://www.themarysue.com/unlearn-racism-black-sci-fi-authors/
I needed some hope. I shared this with my sociology professor, and he went to his bookshelf and took down The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Leguin. After that, you could say that a love affair bloomed, and when I finally sat down with some science fiction written by black women, my life was changed forever.
‘The Dispossessed’ By Ursula K. Le Guin: An Embodiment of Postmodern Anarchism?
Marc Barham
#anarchism #scifi #sciencefiction #UrsulaLeGuin #utopia #revolution
Our Present as the Past’s Fictitious Future
By S. A. Applin
#anthropology #sciencefiction #utopia
https://culanth.org/fieldsights/our-present-as-the-pasts-fictitious-future
Solarpunking Speculative Futures
By Nandita Badami
#anthropology #sciencefiction #solarpunk #utopia
https://culanth.org/fieldsights/solarpunking-speculative-futures
Thinking Parabolically: Time Matters in Octavia Butler’s Parables
By Priya Chandrasekaran
#anthropology #OctaviaEButler #sciencefiction
https://culanth.org/fieldsights/thinking-parabolically-time-matters-in-octavia-butlers-parables
Looking for Humanity in Science Fiction through Afrofuturism
"This is why my anthropology, in theory and praxis, is inspired by Afrofuturism. It rejects the supremacy of Western schools of praxis and, instead, proposes (and builds on) frameworks that center those being studied as protagonists in the narrative."
By David Colón-Cabrera
#afrofuturism #futurism #sciencefiction #scifi
https://culanth.org/fieldsights/looking-for-humanity-in-science-fiction-through-afrofuturism
First Contact with Possible Futures
"Speculative ethnography can teach us to imagine justice and freedom as attainable in all our first contacts with today’s emerging realities and with the possible, hopefully more just, futures yet to come."
by Michael Oman-Reagan
#anthropology #ethnography #futurism #sciencefiction
https://culanth.org/fieldsights/first-contact-with-possible-futures
Speculative Fiction and Speculating about the Social
By Elizabeth Reddy
#anthropology #sciencefiction #futurism
https://culanth.org/fieldsights/speculative-fiction-and-speculating-about-the-social
The Necessary Tension between Science Fiction and Anthropology
By Matthew Wolf-Meyer
https://culanth.org/fieldsights/the-necessary-tension-between-science-fiction-and-anthropology
How Indigenous Visionaries Are Reshaping Representation in Pop Culture
"For Thiele, Indigenous Futurism represents “Native people taking back their stories. It’s hard to imagine a world without these stories. In art and life there are unknowns, but once something is created it’s out in the world and in people’s brains, there’s no stopping it.”
by Monica Whitepigeon
Growing up in the 1970s, artist Ryan Singer remembers living on his reservation in Arizona and raising funds for a class field trip to see “Star Wars” when he was four years old. He remembers the long bus ride into town and the sight of the movie theater when they got there, decorated with cardboard cutouts of the picture’s heroes, villains and spaceships. He could barely contain his excitement as he held onto his “Star Wars” cup while John Williams’s triumphant theme music boomed throughout the auditorium, ushered in by those famous yellow words. Thus began his lifelong love of the franchise and the genre it changed forever.
Vom Widerstand zur Utopie
"Die Frage der Utopie zu stellen, heißt, nicht länger für den Erhalt des Status quo zu kämpfen. Wer die Welt retten will, braucht einen teuflischen Plan zu ihrer radikalen Veränderung"
von Bini Adamczak
#sciencefiction #utopia #futurism
https://www.akweb.de/bewegung/bini-adamczak-vom-widerstand-zur-utopie/
Imagining the Next Future
"What does the future hold? In our new series “Imagining the Next Future,” Polygon explores the new era of science fiction, to see how storytellers and innovators are imagining the next 10, 20, 50, or 100 years during a moment of extreme uncertainty"
#sciencefiction #futurism #utopia
https://www.polygon.com/21515800/new-science-fiction-futures
In this new look at the greatest new scifi movies, TV shows, books, and games from the last 10-15 years, we ditch classics like Dune and Star Wars in favor of new authors, new artists, and new directors who are telling great sci-fi stories about the future of America and the world today.
The Realism Of Our Times: Kim Stanley Robinson On How Science Fiction Works
"We’re all science fiction writers...world civilization right now is teetering on the brink: Science fiction is the realism of our time. Utopia and dystopia are both possible, and both staring us in the face."
(Kim Stanley Robinson)
by John Plotz
How Star Trek shows that hedonism can work for everyone
Peter Frase sees Star Trek: The Next Generation as a good way to contrast the values we have today with a science fiction utopia.
He argues the economics of the Star Trek world allows people to pursue pleasure instead of wealth.
#startrek #sciencefiction #hedonism #scifi #utopia #capitalism #anticapitalism
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-star-trek-shows-that-hedonism-can-work-for-everyone-1.5715681
When you think of a hedonist, you might think of a wine-guzzling sex addict, or a chocolate-binging glutton. As part of our series searching for common good, IDEAS tracks the true story of hedonism from Ancient Greece to Star Trek’s 24th century.
We asked Kim Stanley Robinson: Can science fiction save us?
How good utopian novels can change our thinking about the world
By Tasha Robinson
#sciencefiction #utopia #scifi #futurism
https://www.polygon.com/2020/10/20/21525509/kim-stanley-robinson-interview-science-fiction-utopias
The utopian author of some of the era’s greatest science fiction books, including New York 2140, Aurora, the Mars trilogy, Pacific Edge, and The Years of Rice and Salt, sits down in a new interview to talk about sci-fi, utopias, the future in America, and the political issues and themes at the heart of his books. His newest book, The Ministry For the Future, is available now.
How Black Women Are Reshaping Afrofuturism
"The science fiction subgenre known for its utopian and liberation themes has become a vehicle for Black women artists"
by Jonita Davis
#futurism #afrofuturism #sciencefiction #feminism #liberation
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2020/04/24/how-black-women-are-reshaping-afrofuturism
Amazofuturism and Indigenous Futurism in Brazilian Science Fiction
By Vítor Castelões Gama and Marcelo Velloso Garcia
#futurism #IndigenousFuturism #indigenous #amazofuturism #sciencefiction #scifi #utopia
Parallel worlds
Can the multiverse explain the course of history?
If human history turns on the tilt of the multiverse, can we still trust our ideas of achievement, progress and morality?
by Andrew Crumey
#sciencefiction #multiverse #scifi #history
https://aeon.co/essays/can-the-multiverse-explain-the-course-of-history
Imagining the End of Capitalism With Kim Stanley Robinson
"Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of more than twenty books, including New York 2140, Red Moon, and the Mars trilogy. He talked to Jacobin about his latest work, his vision of socialism, and why we must fight to imagine the end of capitalism rather than the end of the world."
Interview By Derrick O'keefe
#sciencefiction #scifi #socialism #utopia
https://jacobin.com/2020/10/kim-stanley-robinson-ministry-future-science-fiction/
Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of more than twenty books, including New York 2140, Red Moon, and the Mars trilogy. He talked to Jacobin about his latest work, his vision of socialism, and why we must fight to imagine the end of capitalism rather than the end of the world.
‘We’ve Already Survived an Apocalypse’: Indigenous Writers Are Changing Sci-Fi
"Long underrepresented in genre fiction, Native American and First Nations authors are reshaping its otherworldly (but still often Eurocentric) worlds"
By Alexandra Alter
#sciencefiction #indigenous #utopia #IndigenousFuturism #futurism
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/books/indigenous-native-american-sci-fi-horror.html
A History of Star Trek's Gender Non-Conformity
From Jadzia Dax to Adira and Gray, all the times Star Trek has challenged societal gender expectations and binaries
"Data's trial in “The Measure Of A Man” sounds very much like current trans and intersex-rights trials in which people are arguing to simply be allowed to exist, with all the dehumanizing language that comes with the so-called “debate.”
By Marlowe Mitchell
#sciencefiction #gender #queer #futurism #scifi #startrek #utopia
https://www.startrek.com/en-un/news/a-history-of-star-treks-gender-non-conformity
This is the Muslim tradition of sci-fi and speculative fiction
by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
#muslimfuturism #futurism #sciencefiction #islam #utopia
https://aeon.co/ideas/think-sci-fi-doesnt-belong-in-the-muslim-world-think-again
In Dune, Paul Atreides led a jihad, not a crusade
Here is why that matters.
Ali Karjoo-Ravary
#sciencefiction #scifi #futurism #utopia #muslimfuturism #islam
Was können wir von Science-Fiction über die Zukunft lernen?
Dietmar Dath ist der Science-Fiction-Experte schlechthin.
Im Digitalpodcast spricht er über das Erfinden von Welten, die Zukunft als Idee – und über sehr viele Bücher.
Von Meike Laaff und Dirk Peitz
#sciencefiction #scifi #utopie
https://www.zeit.de/digital/2019-11/dietmar-dath-science-fiction-zukunft-wird-das-was-digitalpodcast
How Sci-Fi Shaped Socialism
"From William Morris to Ursula K. Le Guin and Iain M. Banks, science fiction has provided an outlet for socialist thinkers – offering a break from a bleak political reality and allowing them to imagine a vastly different world."
By Nick Hubble
#sciencefiction #socialism #futurism #utopia #scifi
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/12/how-sci-fi-shaped-socialism
Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World
- Jörg Matthias Determann
I.B. Tauris, 2020
#book #sciencefiction #islam #scifi #muslimfuturism
download:
https://library.lol/main/45D6CE668335564CCA18A3322B4FC1D0
Indigenous Futurisms: Changing the narrative in science fiction and fact
Recognition of Indigenous Peoples' perspectives in technology is vital, scholars say
#indigenous #sciencefiction #utopia #scifi #futurism #indigenousfuturism
Teaching Afrofuturism in a Pakistani classroom
Afrofuturism lets us see Black people at the centre of their own stories with all the vibrant shades of their humanity.
Nudrat Kamal
#afrofuturism #futurism #sciencefiction #scifi #utopia #indigenous #indigenousfuturism
Great article by Helen Scales on how the mythical subaquatic empire of #Drexciya is inspiring a real movement to memorialize the horrific Middle Passage.
Drexciya: how Afrofuturism is inspiring calls for an ocean memorial to slavery
"The alternative Black history of a deep-sea civilisation has planted the seed for proposals to memorialise the 1.8 million Africans who died in the Atlantic"
by Helen Scales
#afrofuturism #futurism #scifi #sciencefiction #utopia #blacksciencefiction
Socialism & science fiction
"The simple connection between socialism and science fiction is that sci-fi imagines alternatives to the status quo", writes Eduardo Tovar, beginning a discussion of socialist science fiction writers from the 19th century on"
Eduardo Tovar
#sciencefiction #scifi #socialism #utopia #futurism
https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2020-04-05/socialism-and-science-fiction
Photo by Florencia Viadana on Unsplash The simple connection between socialism and science fiction is that sci-fi imagines alternatives to the status quo. Frequently, this involves implicitly critiquing our present society or projecting possible outcomes of existing social trends. More to the point, sci-fi tends to imagine change at the level of the entire human species, such as by envisaging how humanity will evolve socially through the application of scientific inventions and discoveries.
Wie Science Fiction unsere Wirklichkeit verändert
Gert Scobel & Dietmar Dath
Afrofuturism Answers Back to Afro-pessimism
"Afrofuturism questions and undermines the eurocentric idea of progress and the universalizing values of rationalism, and empiricism."
by Dr. Mich Nyawalo
#afrofuturism #Africa #ethnography #worldmaking #colonialism #futurism #sciencefiction
https://peepsmagazine.ca/afrofuturism-answers-back-to-afropessimism/
Dr. Mich Nyawalo shares how afrofuturism, a powerful art movement that identifies innovative spaces of power and opportunity, has evolved as a response to afropessimism, a limiting and reductive narrative. He examines how afrofuturism has become a sophisticated aesthetic through the award-winning work of Wanuri Kahiu and her film Pumzi.
Star Trek: Anti-Imperialist Doctrine
"America's liberal imperialist doctrine has been responsible for appalling carnage in places like Vietnam, Iraq, and Central America. But America has also produced a liberal anti-imperialist doctrine that remains ensconced in a TV series that has been captivating US audiences since 1966."
by Yanis Varoufakis
#sciencefiction #syfi #StarTrek #syfy #scifi #futurism
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/08/23/star-trek-anti-imperialist-doctrine
America's liberal imperialist doctrine has been responsible for appalling carnage in places like Vietnam, Iraq, and Central America. But America has also produced a liberal anti-imperialist doctrine that remains ensconced in a TV series that has been captivating US audiences since 1966.
The Bezos Future
Why Jeff Bezos must be stopped before it’s too late.
"I wrote about two possible visions of the future of space exploration: the socialist future (exciting, humanistic, like Star Trek) and the Bezos future (cold, dystopian, feudalistic). It’s up to us to choose which path humanity takes"
by Nathan J. Robinson
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