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Polytopias: The Missing Speculative Genre
exploring alternate realities reveals the interlocking contingencies of the status quo, speculative stories may prove useful not just to those imagining the future, but those who seek to invent it.
Eliot Peper • The Possibility Engine
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The situation is bad, yes, okay, enough of that; we know that already. Dystopia has done its job, it’s old news now, perhaps it’s self-indulgence to stay stuck in that place any more. Next thought: utopia. Realistic or not, and perhaps especially if not.
Kim Stanley Robinson • Dystopias Now | Commune
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What We Talk About when We Talk About The Future ⊗ Polyfuturism ⊗ The Downward Spiral of Technology
Sentierssentiers.mediaJonathan Simcoe added
Eclipsepunk aims to explore the limits of solarpunk narratives by continuously testing them in creative scenarios. This includes collaborative storytelling and worldbuilding tools like Design Fiction, indie ttRPGs, and other forms of future studies such as art projects or installations with interactive components for exploring potential futures th
... See morePedro Parrachia • Eclipsepunk - stress testing visions of better futures
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To me, it’s very important to think about speculative fiction and worldmaking as two approaches for better orienting ourselves to the present, rather than conjuring escapist utopian futures that will never arrive.
On Technology and Humanity: Alice Bucknell and Her Alternative Worlds
Severin Matusek and added
I want us to be writing more of these utopian sci-fi stories, because that's my dream, living in that post-capitalist Star Trek world. We can start in the world that we live in now, creating little bubbles of that new future, really living it, and inviting more and more people to live in that different reality with us, in a in a deeply real, moving... See more
Divya Siddarth • Building Capacity for Exit to Community
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