Science Fiction for the Moment

Topic outline

• Select topic General

  General

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  • Select activity Essays

    

    Essays Turnitin Assignment 2
  • Select activity Syllabus

    

    Syllabus File
• Select topic Introduction

  Introduction

  Required:

  Carl Freedman, “Definitions”

  China Miéville, “Cognition as Ideology: A Dialectic of SF Theory”

  Darko Suvin, “On Communism, Science Fiction, and Utopia: The Blagoevgrad Theses”

  • Select activity Freedman

    

    Freedman File
  • Select activity Miéville

    

    Miéville File
  • Select activity Suvin

    

    Suvin File
• Select topic Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home

  Required:

  Darko Suvin, “Of Starship Troopers and Refuseniks: War and Militarism in U.S. Science Fiction, Part 2”

  David Harvey, “Marxism, Metaphors and Ecological Politics” (https://monthlyreview.org/1998/03/01/marxism-metaphors-and-ecological-politics/)

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home

  Recommended:

  Stephanie Rogers and Ursula K. Le Guin. "Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin"

  Lisa Garforth, “Green Utopias: Beyond Apocalypse, Progress, and Pastoral”

  • Select activity Suvin

    

    Suvin File
  • Select activity Rogers and Le Guin

    

    Rogers and Le Guin File
  • Select activity Garforth

    

    Garforth File
• Select topic Marge Piercy, He, She and It

  Marge Piercy, He, She and It

  Required:

  Donna Haraway, “A Manifesto for Cyborgs”

  Marge Piercy, He, She and It

  Recommended:

  Sarah Franklin and Donna Haraway, "Staying with the Manifesto"

  Terry Bisson and Marge Piercy, “Living off the Grid: Marge Piercy Interviewed by Terry Bisson”

  Tom Moylan, “Marge Piercy's Tale of Hope”

  • Select activity Haraway

    

    Haraway File
  • Select activity Franklin and Haraway

    

    Franklin and Haraway File
  • Select activity Bisson and Piercy

    

    Bisson and Piercy File
  • Select activity Moylan

    

    Moylan File
• Select topic Selected Poetry by Ursula K. Le Guin and Marge Piercy

  Selected Poetry by Ursula K. Le Guin and Marge Piercy

  Required:

  Ursula K. Le Guin, selected poetry

  Marge Piercy, selected poetry

  Recommended:

  Deidre Byrne, “What is Not Owned: Feminist Strategies in Ursula K. Le Guin's Poetry”

  Marge Piercy, “Why Speculate on the Future?” and “Port Huron Conference Statement”

  • Select activity Le Guin, selected poetry

    

    Le Guin, selected poetry File
  • Select activity Piercy, selected poetry

    

    Piercy, selected poetry File
  • Select activity Byrne

    

    Byrne File
  • Select activity Piercy, Why Speculate on the Future

    

    Piercy, Why Speculate on the Future File
  • Select activity Piercy, Port Huron Conference Statement

    

    Piercy, Port Huron Conference Statement File
• Select topic Selected Poetry by Darko Suvin and Ken MacLeod

  Selected Poetry by Darko Suvin and Ken MacLeod

  Required:

  Darko Suvin, selected poetry

  Ken MacLeod, selected poetry

  Recommended:

  Darko Suvin, “What and How Are Poets for in Our Age of Want: Cognition, Emancipation, Communism”

  Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović, “The Poetry of Estrangement or Utopia Suviniana”

  • Select activity Suvin, selected poetry

    

    Suvin, selected poetry File
  • Select activity MacLeod, selected poetry

    

    MacLeod, selected poetry File
  • Select activity Suvin

    

    Suvin File
  • Select activity Đergović-Joksimović

    

    Đergović-Joksimović File
• Select topic Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring

  Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring

  Required:

  Silvia Federici, “The Body, Capitalism, and the Reproduction of Labor Power”

  bell hooks, “The Politics of Greed”

  Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring

  Recommended:

  Terry Bisson and Nalo Hopkinson, “Correcting the Balance: Nalo Hopkinson Interviewed by Terry Bisson”

  Nalo Hopkinson, “Report from Planet Midnight”

  Sarah Wood, “'Serving the Spirits': Emergent Identities in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring”

  • Select activity Federici

    

    Federici File
  • Select activity Bisson and Hopkinson

    

    Bisson and Hopkinson File
  • Select activity Hopkinson, Report from Planet Midnight

    

    Hopkinson, Report from Planet Midnight File
  • Select activity Wood

    

    Wood File
  • Select activity hooks

    

    hooks File
• Select topic Fredric Jameson, An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army

  Fredric Jameson, An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army

  Required:

  Fredric Jameson, “An American Utopia” and “An American Utopia: Epilogue”

  Recommended:

  Jodi Dean, “Dual Power Redux”

  Kathi Weeks, “Utopian Therapy: Work, Nonwork, and the Political Imagination”

  Slavoj Žižek, “The Seeds of Imagination”
• Select topic Kim Stanely Robinson, New York 2140

  Kim Stanely Robinson, New York 2140

  Required:

  Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, “Empire, Twenty Years On”

  Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140

  Recommended:

  Andrew Milner and J.R. Burgmann, “A Short Pre-History of Climate Fiction”

  Terry Bisson and Kim Stanley Robinson, “A Real Joy to Be Had: Kim Stanley Robinson Interviewed by Terry Bisson”

  Raphael Kabo, "'Life! Life!': The Precarious Utopianism of Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140"

  • Select activity Hardt and Negri

    

    Hardt and Negri File
  • Select activity Milner and Burgmann

    

    Milner and Burgmann File
  • Select activity Bisson and Robinson

    

    Bisson and Robinson File
  • Select activity Kabo

    

    Kabo File