Introduction: Capitalism, modernity, and science fiction / Judith Grant and Sean Parson -- Part I. Collapse and Rebuilding. Dystopia, Apocalypse, and Other Things to Look Forward To: reading for radical hope in the fiction of fear / Matthew Benjamin Cole ; Mirror, Mirror: the tragic vision of Star Trek: Discovery / Libby Barringer ; Beginning Again: Jericho, revolution, and catastrophic originalism / Ira J. Allen -- Part II. Resistance and Survival. "We Survived You": resisting eugenicist imaginaries through feminist science fiction / Jess Whatcott ; Wakanda Forever: black panther in black political thought / Debra Thompson ; Drowning Politics: theorizing resistance in the Anthropocene through JG Ballard's The drowned world / Chase Hobbs-Morgan -- Part III. Reconstructing Our World : Space and Place. 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 ; Politicizing Cities in China MieĢville's Speculative Fiction / Andrew Uzendoski and Caleb Gallemore ; Stranger than Fiction: Silicon Valley and the politics of space colonization / Emily Ray -- Part IV. Reconstructing Ourselves : Identity and Agency. A Future Is Female: loving animals and scientific romance / Claire E. Rasmussen ; Finding Liberation and Futurity in the Sentient Spaceships of Leckie, Chambers, and Okorafor / Laura Ringer ; What Do We Lose When We Become Posthuman?: "The people of sand and slag" and the politics of recognition / Michael Uhall.
Summary:
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.
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