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SUMMARY:“Fear of a Red Planet, or, What Sci-Fi and Critical Theory Can Teach Us
About Our Planet”
DESCRIPTION:\nIt’s old news that capitalism is a global system with prof
ound effects on our daily lives\, but what would it mean to see capitali
sm as a planetary problem? This talk brings together critical theory and
science fiction not only to understand how capitalism has ruined the Ea
rth but also how we might imagine better relations with our planet. It f
ocuses on fictions of terraforming—stories about transforming other plan
ets to make them capable of sustaining human life—understanding them as
political fables. Writers like Kim Stanley Robinson\, Annalee Newitz\, A
drian Tchaikovsky\, and N. K. Jemisin dream up societies beyond extracti
ve capitalism’s ruination of the Earth. In doing so\, they participate i
n the eco-socialist tradition of framing politics in metabolic terms as
so many efforts to transform how human beings inhabit the Earth.\n\nFor
more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/fear-of-a-red-planet/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:It’s old news t
hat capitalism is a global system with profound effects on our daily liv
es, but what would it mean to see capitalism as a planetary problem? Thi
s talk brings together critical theory and science fiction not only to u
nderstand how capitalism has ruined the Earth but also how we might imag
ine better relations with our planet. It focuses on fictions of terrafor
ming—stories about transforming other planets to make them capable of su
staining human life—understanding them as political fables. Writers like
Kim Stanley Robinson, Annalee Newitz, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and N. K. Jem
isin dream up societies beyond extractive capitalism’s ruination of the
Earth. In doing so, they participate in the eco-socialist tradition of f
raming politics in metabolic terms as so many efforts to transform how h
uman beings inhabit the Earth.
For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu
/event/fear-of-a-red-planet/
LOCATION:124 Sparks Building
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