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the coming heath death of the science fiction universe - against heteronomy
- Author(s):
- Julian Grajewski (see profile)
- Date:
- 2004
- Group(s):
- GS Prose Fiction, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Philosophy and Literature, TC Popular Culture, TC Science and Literature
- Subject(s):
- Economics and literature, Literature--Philosophy, Literature and science, Metaphysics
- Item Type:
- Conference paper
- Conf. Title:
- science fiction educators forum
- Conf. Org.:
- mla
- Conf. Loc.:
- new york city
- Conf. Date:
- may, 2004
- Tag(s):
- 2666, creativity, fiction, jack kerouac, speculative realism, Epistemology, Literature and economics, Literature and philosophy
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M63303
- Abstract:
- discussion of the may 2004 issue of pmla that treated science fiction as a scholarly genre. my question was, instead of writing strung-out, dystopian lit, why not ask what will be the level of consciousness of an individual human biped in a galactic economy of quadrilions and quintillions of people, each utilizing near- infinity numbers of kilocalories daily. why don't we write truly progressive, futuristic works instead of bourgeois-anarchoid ones invovlving boring, super-individuated characters - keeping in mind that all else equal, human consciousness, the content of our minds, is predicated upon energy and material accessions made available to our sentient species as a whole?
- Notes:
- "... a madman who not only understood but cared and wanted to understand more and much more than there was... " On the Road by Jack Kerouac - 1955 skeptical of anglo-centric scientists.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- License:
- All-Rights-Granted
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