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Science Fiction and How We Imagine Climate Futures
January 16 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Often science fiction depicts the climate future as unlivable, or as barely survivable only through an intensification of “capitalist realism” – everything is for sale, only the rich have access to technologies sufficient for minimal comfort, and Earth ecologies are in continual free-fall or already destroyed in service of profit. In this conversation, we discuss science fictional imaginings of livable collective futures. We put two recent texts (Ruthanna Emrys’s A Half-Built Garden and M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhabi’s Everything for Everyone) in conversation with an older non-dystopian imaginary (“P.M”’s bolo’bolo).
Alexis Shotwell is theory and science fiction fan, functional potter, and she bike rides in all weather. Alexis has been part of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton since 2012 and cross-appointed to Philosophy and the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies. Kilian Jörg is a philosopher and artist based in Vienna and Berlin whose research focuses on ecological epistemology and the intersection of art and philosophy.