Analyzing speculative fiction and science fiction, this book explores a range of political and social theoretical concerns for the twenty-first century, including post-humanism, resistance, agency, political community making, and ethics and politics during the Anthropocene.
Analyzing speculative fiction and science fiction, this book explores a range of political and social theoretical concerns for the twenty-first century, including post-humanism, resistance, agency, political community making, and ethics and politics during the Anthropocene.
Edited by Judith Grant and Sean Parson - Contributions by Ira Allen; Libby Barringer; Matthew Cole; Caleb Gallemore; Judith Grant; Chase Hobbs-Morgan; Michael Lipscomb; Sean Parson; Claire Rasmussen; Emily Ray; Laurie Ringer; Debra Thompson; Michael Uhall
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The Future is Unwritten: Political Agency and Radical Change in a Science Fiction" Judith Grant and Sean Parson Part I: Collapse and Rebuilding Chapter One: Dystopia, Apocalypse, and Other Things to Look Forward to: Reading for Radical Hope in the Fiction of Fear Matthew Cole Chapter Two: Mirror, Mirror: The Tragic Vision of Star TrekDiscovery Libby Barringer Chapter Three: Beginning Again: Jericho, Revolution, and Catastrophic Originalism Ira Allen Part II: Resistance and Survival Chapter Four: "We Survived You": Resisting Eugenic Imaginaries through Feminist Speculative Fiction Jess Whatcott Chapter Five: Wakanda Forever: Black Panther in Black Political Thought Deborah Thompson Chapter Six: A Politics of Drowning: Theorizing Action in the Anthropocene through JG Ballard's The Drowned World Chase Hobbs-Morgan Part III: Reconstructing Our World: Space and Place Chapter Seven: The Ambiguities of Critical Desire: Utopia and Heterotopia in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed and Samuel R. Delany's Trouble on Triton Michael Lipscomb Chapter Eight: Politicizing Cities in China Miéville's Speculative Fiction Andrew Uzendoski and Caleb Gallemore Chapter Nine: Stranger than Fiction: Silicon Valley and the Politics of Space Colonization Emily Ray Part IV: Reconstructing Ourselves: Identity and Agency Chapter Ten: A Future is Female: Loving Animals and Scientific Romance Claire E. Rasmussen Chapter Eleven: Finding Liberation and Futurity in the Sentient Spaceships of Leckie, Chambers, and Okorafor Laurie Ringer Chapter Twelve: What Do We Lose When We Become Posthuman?: Paolo Bacigalupi's "The People of Sand and Slag" and the Politics of Recognition Michael Uhall
Introduction: The Future is Unwritten: Political Agency and Radical Change in a Science Fiction" Judith Grant and Sean Parson Part I: Collapse and Rebuilding Chapter One: Dystopia, Apocalypse, and Other Things to Look Forward to: Reading for Radical Hope in the Fiction of Fear Matthew Cole Chapter Two: Mirror, Mirror: The Tragic Vision of Star TrekDiscovery Libby Barringer Chapter Three: Beginning Again: Jericho, Revolution, and Catastrophic Originalism Ira Allen Part II: Resistance and Survival Chapter Four: "We Survived You": Resisting Eugenic Imaginaries through Feminist Speculative Fiction Jess Whatcott Chapter Five: Wakanda Forever: Black Panther in Black Political Thought Deborah Thompson Chapter Six: A Politics of Drowning: Theorizing Action in the Anthropocene through JG Ballard's The Drowned World Chase Hobbs-Morgan Part III: Reconstructing Our World: Space and Place Chapter Seven: The Ambiguities of Critical Desire: Utopia and Heterotopia in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed and Samuel R. Delany's Trouble on Triton Michael Lipscomb Chapter Eight: Politicizing Cities in China Miéville's Speculative Fiction Andrew Uzendoski and Caleb Gallemore Chapter Nine: Stranger than Fiction: Silicon Valley and the Politics of Space Colonization Emily Ray Part IV: Reconstructing Ourselves: Identity and Agency Chapter Ten: A Future is Female: Loving Animals and Scientific Romance Claire E. Rasmussen Chapter Eleven: Finding Liberation and Futurity in the Sentient Spaceships of Leckie, Chambers, and Okorafor Laurie Ringer Chapter Twelve: What Do We Lose When We Become Posthuman?: Paolo Bacigalupi's "The People of Sand and Slag" and the Politics of Recognition Michael Uhall
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