Description
How can the speculative imagination help us build a better world?
At a world-historical moment of global upheaval, speculative writing is enjoying a renaissance. This collection of poetry, stories, and essays engages speculation as both a ubiquitous feature of financial capitalism and a radical tool of collective imagination. By rejecting dominant ideas about what is possible, speculation empowers us to plot new paths to a more just world.
Creative works range over violence and healing, memory and erasure, and alternative worlds, while essays span the meaning of land and community in the African diaspora, Octavia Butler's speculative fiction, and the ethics of the far future. Taken together, these works suggest that speculation is ultimately about our relationships with each other--as one contributor puts it, "what they have been, what they are, and most important, what they could be."
Author: Ed Pavlic
Publisher: Boston Review
Published: 04/11/2023
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781946511768
ISBN10: 1946511765
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Poetry | Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Political Science | Essays
About the Author
Ed Pavlic is the author of Live at the Bitter End; Who Can Afford to Improvise? James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listener; Let's Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno; and other books. He is Distinguished Research Professor in the English Department and in the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia and a Boston Review Arts Contributing Editor.