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Uninhabited: Science Fiction and the Decolonial

Uninhabited: Science Fiction and the Decolonial

Woodard, Ben

Paperback

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 1803414480
ISBN13: 9781803414485
Publisher: Zer0 Books
Published: Apr 1 2025
Pages: 152
Weight: 1.70
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.35 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
Is it inhabited? This question makes the shared stakes of science fiction and colonialism obvious, wherein the wide imaginaries of empire and what counts as life - scientifically, ethically, politically - and the moral and technological possibilities of terraforming and the impulse for exploration are all fused. Science fiction, and the genres that preceded and grounded it, such as scientific romance and tales of lost civilizations, emerged alongside the birth of industrialized global trade and imperial rushes for new resources. If the scientific romance dramatized the effects of new technologies on history and forms of life, then lost civilization stories dealt with themes of the alien, the forgetting of history, and more explicitly, with episodes of war and oppression.

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