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Mutopia - Science Fiction and Fantastic Knowledge (Hardcover)
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Mutopia - Science Fiction and Fantastic Knowledge (Hardcover)
Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies, 75
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The Enlightenment's project of establishing scientific proof for
the unity of the universe led instead to the fragmentation of
knowledge. The culture of certainty mutated into a culture of
conjecture and speculative supplements as the image of a unified
cosmos mutated into a patchwork totality. In the process, the
pursuit of knowledge developed a symbiotic association with science
fiction. While sf has often provided concrete ideas adopted by the
knowledge faculties, equally important is the way science-fictional
counterfactual world building - science fiction's "fantastic
knowledge" - has intersected with rational speculation in all
fields of knowledge. As a result, the dream of a completed,
rationally engineered utopia has evolved into the image of
"mutopia," in which the objects of knowledge, the process of
knowing, and the science-fictional imagination itself are expected
to undergo constant transformation. The essays in Mutopia address
the science-fictional imagination's relevance for scientific
modeling, critical theory, the deconstruction of the future, the
future of religion, the future of nations, the imagination of
empire, the construction of aliens, the future of science fiction
itself, and the transformation of utopia into mutopia. Written over
many years by a leading scholar of science fiction, the essays are
revised and expanded for republication in this collection,
alongside new commentary that places them in an updated context.
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