Explores how contemporary speculative fiction and film imagine the futures of race, class, and gender as lived realities and social locations transformed by interconnected crises. Course takes “speculative fiction” to encompass science fiction, fantasy, horror, the weird, and experimental utopian writing. The course is organized around five thematic clusters: the ethics of utopian and dystopian worlds; surrealism and the commodity form; climate catastrophe; the politics of migration and borderlands; and imagining collective futures against pervasive dystopian narratives. Distribution requirement: Global.
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University of California, Santa Cruz
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