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| Speculating about Culture |
In this course, we will explore how speculative fiction challenges what our culture tells us about ourselves and others. Using texts drawn primarily from science fiction and weird fiction, but also incorporating examples of horror and fantasy into our discussion, we will examine how the philosophical and political assumptions of our culture structure our beliefs about gender and sexuality, about race and class, and about language and intelligence. While we have this discussion, we will also note how these speculative forms of literature, like science itself, encourage a habit of mind which demands that we always question commonly accepted “truths” about the world around us. Speculating about Culture. |
| Literature and the Political Imagination |
This class begins with the assumption that imaginative acts, creative and literary, are part of how people imagine a better world in order to bring it into being. We will read utopian and dystopian fiction, looking at novels, short stories, and film. In addition to learning tools for literary analysis, students in this class will explore the ways speculative literature can renew and revive tradition, clarify the present, warn against authoritarian futures, and generate hopeful ones. In the second half of class, students will create their own imagined worlds, first individually and then collectively, and use skills and concepts taught in class to make decisions about the world they would like to see. Literature and the Political Imagination.
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| The ‘end of nature’ | We find ourselves in the middle of the 6th mass extinction, with shrinking biomass, retreating glaciers, every aspect of our lives mediated by technology, the ‘end of nature.’ What might the concept of “wild” mean to us in our daily lives? To consider this, we will read Gathering Moss—a book about Indigenous and scientific ways of knowing, and about listening to the small voices of mosses. We will study the novel Into the Forest by Jean Hegland (and screen the film of the same name by Canadian director Patricia Rozema) about a near-future apocalyptic event that strands two sisters in their remote homestead in the Pacific Northwest. And we’ll read the ecopoet Gary Snyder’s 1974 book, Turtle Island. |
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