Uneven futures : strategies for community survival from speculative fiction / edited by Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes, and Gerry Canavan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yoshinaga, Ida M., editor.

Guynes, Sean, editor.

Canavan, Gerry, editor.

Series:

The MIT Press Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speculative fiction.

Science fiction--History and criticism.

Science fiction.

Communities in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Uneven Futures reimagines the SF megatext as a vibrantly dialogical and enduringly ethical methodology for our living political futures"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction: It's the End of the World as We Know It-or So We Hope

I Emergence

1 Samuel R. Delany, "The Star Pit" (1965) / Moving On, as Far as You Want

Notes

Bibliography

2 Lionel Davidson, Under Plum Lake (1980) / YA Time Out of Joint

3 Brian Henson and Rockne O'Bannon, Farscape (1999-2003) / Radical Compassion

4 Shovon Chowdhury, The Competent Authority (2013) / CTRL+ALT+DELETE Humanity

5 Sofia Samatar, "How to Get Back to the Forest" (2014) / Shaping and Sharing Feelings

6 Tade Thompson, Wormwood Trilogy (2016-2019) / Africanfuturism's Salvage Utopianism

7 Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, The OA (2016-2019) / Science Fiction's Affective Praxis

8 Craig Laurance Gidney, A Spectral Hue (2019) / #OwnVoices and Intergroup Solidarity

9 Jonathan Hickman, House of X and Powers of X (2019) / Ecological Activism and Radical Sovereignty

10 Rebecca Sugar, Steven Universe Future (2019-2020) / Camp Redemption

II Rupture

11 Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland (1884) / Unflattening Scientific Worldviews

12 Karel Čapek, War with the Newts (1936) / Comic Jeremiad Journalism

13 Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (1970) / Remaking the Bond

14 Joan Slonczewski, A Door into Ocean (1986) / Peaceful Ecological Defiance

Introducing the Sharers

Eco/logical SF

The Word for World Is Shora

Moral Intransigence

Afterword: Don't Hold Your Breath

15 SCP Foundation (2008-) / Collaborative Canons

Bibliography.

16 Kléber Mendonça Filho, Recife Frio (2009) / Visualizing Disparity in Brazil

17 Virginia Grise, blu (2011) / Queer Latinx Aesthetics of Apocalypse

18 Claire Coleman, Terra Nullius (2017) / Aboriginal SF's Realities of the Imaginary

Aboriginal Stories

19 Liu Cixin (2000) and Frant Gwo (2019), The Wandering Earth / Deimperializing Empire

Interlude

20 Science Fiction Studies 3.0: Re‑networking Our Hive Mind

New Timescapes and Dangerous Actions

Multiformalisms from Communities of Practice

Toward a Science-Fiction Studies 3.0

SF as . . . Keeping Kinship Circles in Respectful Relations of Balance

SF as . . . Necessary Immaterial Labor for Building the Knowledge Infrastructure

SF as . . . ?

III Transformation

21 Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974) / Permanent Feminist Revolution

22 Joanna Russ, We Who Are About To . . . (1976) / There Is No Planet B

23 Eleanor Arnason, Ring of Swords (1993) / Queer-Feminist Peace Work

24 Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam Trilogy (2003-2013) / Interspecies Coalition-Building

25 Buried without Ceremony, The Quiet Year (2013) and The Deep Forest (2014) / Mechanics of Resolution

26 Undead Labs, State of Decay (2013) / Crafting Community at the End of the World

Note

27 Hideo Kojima, Death Stranding (2019) / Reconnecting in the Time of Climate Change

Uneven Apocalypses

Extinction Entities

28 Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon, Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower (2020) / Links to Our Future-Present

The Future-Present

The Recent Past

The Present-Future

Notes.

Bibliography

IV Revolution

29 Pauline Hopkins, Of One Blood (1902) / Antiracism and the Counternarrative of the Black Fantastic

30 Alan Moore, David Gibbons, and John Higgins, Watchmen, no. 11 (1987) / Autonomous Collectivity against the State

31 Tobias Buckell, Sly Mongoose (2008) / Inhabiting Hostile Futures

32 Tochi Onyebuchi, Riot Baby (2019) / Black Lives Matter SF

33 Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita, Lunar Braceros: 2125-2148 (2009) / Imagination against Resistance

34 Boualem Sansal, 2084: The End of the World (2015) / Resisting Censorship

35 The Russo Brothers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Captain America: Civil War (2016) / The Patriotism of Raising Hell

36 Princess Nokia, "Brujas" (2016) / Santería's Decolonial Futurisms

37 Lehua Parker, One Truth, No Lie (2016) / Indigenous Youth Activism through Mo'olelo and YA Literature

Embracing Identity

Indigenous Adult Role Models

Community Organizing through Art Activism

38 Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140 (2017) / Logistic Utopia

39 Nā Kiaʻi Mauna, Ka Puʻuhonua o Puʻuhuluhulu at the Mauna Kea Access Road (2019) / An SF Sovereignty Story

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-262-37016-6

0-262-37017-4

OCLC:

1296686912