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Exactly!! #SpeculativeClimateStories

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.

"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. lithub.com/you-dont-know-…

"The close bonds of siblingship echo across times, magnitudes and bodies, to form a poetic investigation of queerness and a meditation on the mercurial nature of stories." My review of 'The Archive of Alternate Endings' by Lindsey Drager 'thequietus.com/articles/26688…

“Far from being a system liberated from fictions, capitalism should be seen as the system that liberates fictions to rule over the social...it is clear that what structures social reality – the so-called ‘economy’ – is itself a tissue of fictions.” (Mark Fisher)

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words" frambuaz konfiseri

"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)

Rare english translation of SF micro short story master Shin'ichi Hoshi's 'He-y come on ou-t!' (link: tommoody.us/archives/2015/…) tommoody.us/archives/2015/…

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)

Domestic rocketry at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory MullardSpaceScience #skylark

After the ace screening and discussion of Sun Ra's Space is the Place by LSFRC on Monday, super jazzed to get stuck into this:

Excited to be talking about spidernautics at the University of Cologne tomorrow :)

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.

On the way to The Sampler as Time Machine at the ICA = ready to be transported: ica.art/live/the-sampl…

Excited that registration for the SF: Activism & Resistance conference is now open!

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😃🤩🚀 bit.ly/3COJ7j7

Another awesome video from Khadija Mbowe! bit.ly/3kcW2nA

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" The Architectural Review

I am speaking at this event UCL IAS @ucl-ias.bsky.social (online) on Thursday at 7. It is about 'Making a Beginning Together' and using collective storytelling to navigate space. Free. Fun. All welcome. Feat Rachel Hill @Gear_774 and Tom Dillon. More details: eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-a-beg…

is the answer "a hegemonic system of alienated labour"? x.com/botandy/status…