Science Fiction and ecological thinking
Science fiction is often called the literature of cognitive estrangement, helping us to see things in a new light. An architecture specialist and a literary critic compare notes.
Hetta Howes discusses current academic thinking on science fiction, as a way of thinking that extends beyond writing, film and TV to architecture and beyond. With Caroline Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, and Amy Butt, Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Reading.
This conversation was recorded in mid February before coronavirus hit the UK.
It is one of a series of conversations - New Thinking - produced in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UK Research & Innovation.
Further podcasts are available on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 Free Thinking website under the playlist New Research /programmes/p03zws90
In the Free Thinking archives:
New Generation Thinker Sarah Dillon’s Essay on is science fiction is sexist /programmes/b03g2wkp
A discussion about Zamyatin’s novel We /programmes/b03f8bqz
A discussion with Naomi Alderman, Roger Luckhurst and Alessandro Vincentelli on science fiction & space travel https://www.bbc.com/programmes/b04ps158
Matthew Sweet explores psychohistory and Isaac Asimov and guiding the future /programmes/m000d84g
Naomi Alderman is in conversation with Margaret Atwood /programmes/b07xhzy8
Ursula Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest /programmes/b0b6yb37
Producer: Luke Mulhall
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