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  • “This opposition imagination”: Moylan (1980), Beyond Negation

    Moylan, T. (1980). Beyond Negation: The Critical Utopias of Ursula K. Le Guin and Samuel R. Delany. Extrapolation, 21(3), 236-253. This is the canonical paper defining the notion of the “critical utopia” in sf; Moylan went on to elaborate the idea in numerous articles and books further down the line, and I hope to get…

  • “Aesthetic & ethical urbanisms”: Dobraszczyk (2019), Future Cities

    Dobraszczyk, P. (2019). Future Cities: Architecture and the Imagination. Reaktion Books. Good, passionate arguments here from my friend Dobraszczyk, making a case for future urban imaginaries as a necessary component of our collective coping with an uncertain future. Note his explicit disavowal of the predictive mode, and the arguments in favour of the imagination as…