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Futures and fictions / edited by Henriette Gunkel, Ayesha Hameed and Simon O'Sullivan.

Contributor(s): Gunkel, Henriette [editor.] | Hameed, Ayesha [editor.] | O'Sullivan, Simon, 1967- [editor.]Material type: TextTextLondon : New York : Repeater Books, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd. ; Random House, Inc., 2017Edition: Repeater Books paperback originalDescription: 400 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN: 1910924636 (paperback); 9781910924631 (paperback)Subject(s): Future, The, in literature | Future, The, in popular culture | Future, The | Futurism (Art) | Science fiction -- History and criticism | Science fictionLOC classification: PN3433.5 | .F88 2017
Contents:
Futures and fictions -- Revisiting Genesis >>> -- History will break your heart -- Stages, plots, and traumas -- Afrofuturism, fiction and technology -- How much the heart can hold -- Luxury communism -- Extraterrestrial relativism -- Scavenging the future of the archive --Automate sex : xenofeminism, hyperstition and alienation -- The xenofeminist manifesto -- Sonic utopias : the last angel of history -- Flicker-time and fabulation : from flickering images to crazy wipes -- Surface fictions -- From financial fictions to mythotechnesis -- A century of zombie sound -- The ones who walk away from Omelas.
Summary: "In what ways could we imagine a world different from the one in which we currently live? This is the question addressed by the essays and conversations in Futures and Fictions, which explore possibilities for a different "political imaginary". With discussions around decolonization, new Afro- and other futurisms, post-capitalism, science fiction, and new kinds of social movements - and the intersections of these with contemporary art practice and visual culture - Futures and Fictions creates a space for alternate narratives and image-worlds that might be pitched against our neoliberal present. With contributions from Mark Fisher, Ursula Le Guin, Kodwo Eshun and Oreet Ashery."--Back cover.
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Futures and fictions -- Revisiting Genesis >>> -- History will break your heart -- Stages, plots, and traumas -- Afrofuturism, fiction and technology -- How much the heart can hold -- Luxury communism -- Extraterrestrial relativism -- Scavenging the future of the archive --Automate sex : xenofeminism, hyperstition and alienation -- The xenofeminist manifesto -- Sonic utopias : the last angel of history -- Flicker-time and fabulation : from flickering images to crazy wipes -- Surface fictions -- From financial fictions to mythotechnesis -- A century of zombie sound -- The ones who walk away from Omelas.

"In what ways could we imagine a world different from the one in which we currently live? This is the question addressed by the essays and conversations in Futures and Fictions, which explore possibilities for a different "political imaginary". With discussions around decolonization, new Afro- and other futurisms, post-capitalism, science fiction, and new kinds of social movements - and the intersections of these with contemporary art practice and visual culture - Futures and Fictions creates a space for alternate narratives and image-worlds that might be pitched against our neoliberal present. With contributions from Mark Fisher, Ursula Le Guin, Kodwo Eshun and Oreet Ashery."--Back cover.

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