Imagining futures / Science fiction : Différence entre versions

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History of Science Fiction or how to imagine the future

Through the history of the Imaginary in general and of Science-Fiction in particular, in its memes, its tropes and its evolution until today, this course tries to approach the great questions which work for us, the decolonialism, feminism and climate change.

Supported by short texts and writing and creation exercises, the course aims to enable students to master the codes of the different genres to better tame them or even turn them upside down.

Students will be able to find inspiration in a broad biography that touches on the Imaginary from Frankenstein (considered the first Science-Fiction novel) to ultra-contemporary authors to better understand the issues staged and the importance of looking at the present.

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 Teacher: [[Sara Doke]]
-This course focuses on the future as imagined by science fiction and other speculative literature
+====History of Science Fiction or how to imagine the future====
-and speculative cultures since the early 20th century. On the one hand, it will pay attention to the scientific
-scientific, political and cultural contexts from which particular visions of the
-future have emerged; on the other, it will develop a global sense of the cultures of the imaginary as a genre.
-as a genre. Different analytical paradigms can be deployed (formalist,
-Marxist, feminist, etc.) can be deployed to apprehend the issues and strategies involved in imagining
-utopian worlds.
-It will also highlight the movements that have
+Through the history of the Imaginary in general and of Science-Fiction in particular, in its memes, its tropes and its evolution until today, this course tries to approach the great questions which work for us, the decolonialism, feminism and climate change.
-the articulation of imaginary tropes (space conquest, AI, post-apo, time travel, science without consciousness, biological transformations
-uchronies...) such as afro-futurism, cyberpunk, biopunk, new weird etc. Attention
-attention will also be paid to other statements of the imaginary in non-Western contexts:
-South American and African magic realism, marvels and dystopias from the Arab world or
-Indian subcontinent. The course will also consider how the Imaginary contributes to
-other articulations of class, gender, race and interspecies social relations
-and, more generally, another way of thinking about Alterity.
-Finally, the course will not be limited to literary SF, but will also study other media, such as cinema, radio, graphic narration, video games, etc.
+Supported by short texts and writing and creation exercises, the course aims to enable students to master the codes of the different genres to better tame them or even turn them upside down.
+Students will be able to find inspiration in a broad biography that touches on the Imaginary from Frankenstein (considered the first Science-Fiction novel) to ultra-contemporary authors to better understand the issues staged and the importance of looking at the present.

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History of Science Fiction or how to imagine the future