I am speaking at this event @UCL_IAS (online) on Thursday at 7. It is about 'Making a Beginning Together' and using collective storytelling to navigate space.
Free. Fun. All welcome.
Feat @Spidernautics @Gear_774 and Tom Dillon. More details: https://t.co/qIhe41jwJS
Just received a copy of the AR 125th issue 'Where do we go from here?' featuring a collectively written piece by Beyond Gender!
It is such a joy to have contributed to this "utopian demand for another world, one which can be felt through the soles of our feet"
@ArchReview
Dan Curry, the VFX artist working across much of the Star Trek universe, will be in conversation as part of UCL’s space week on Monday 8th from 6.30pm. Book your free place for this hybrid event in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre or on Zoom😃🤩🚀 https://t.co/jI6GJkv42h
Registration for the Activism & Resistance conference is now live! You can register here: https://t.co/ZbLQ04I52b. We also have a v exciting looking schedule shaping up that you can find here: https://t.co/KNYHFZDise.
Sat in Leuven finishing my paper for the 'Writing a Cosmos: European Literature and Popular Astronomy, 1890-1950' symposium at MDRN tomorrow. Meanwhile bell ringers are blasting out a rendition of Kraftwerk's Das Model = superb.
"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge." Rest in peace, Toni Morrison.
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Image of the day: 'Comet Trees,' (1972) - gigantic genetically engineered comet based trees designed as space habitats for human migration. (concept by Freedman Dyson, painted by Lon Lomberg, taken from 'Visions of Space' by David A. Hardy)
Call for decolonial resources!
We are looking for resources for utopian studies scholars looking to educate themselves and learn more about the intersecting fields of indigenous, decolonial and black studies.
Rare english translation of SF micro short story master Shin'ichi Hoshi's 'He-y come on ou-t!' (link: https://t.co/kX5A1ydcIY) https://t.co/3aOzWJwKil…
"Science fiction isn’t only about thinking about alternate technologies or science concepts...it’s also about re-fashioning or re-imagining our futures, and the way we live. Imagining, for instance, what if things weren’t this way?” (Vandana Singh)