![]() ![]() ![]() Videos Imagining New Worlds – What Activists Can and Have Learnt From Sci-Fi The videos below include some of the sessions that particularly focused on the links between sci-fi and forms of activism. On February 26th and 27th, 2022 City Lights Bookshop hosted a two-day online symposium taking its cues from the book Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1986. All organising is science fiction.” The refracting of the present and the exploration of possibilities, both terrifying and liberating, is what gives speculative and science fiction their potential to provide activists with visions of change and opportunities to imagine and explore the means to reach them. Dangerous Visions: The Forever War: Vietnam’s Impact on Sci-FiĪuthor, commentator and activist Walidah Imarisha has argued that “Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we are engaging in speculative fiction.Bursting Through The Boundaries – Queering SF. ![]()
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