The undersigned, being alternately pissed off and bored, need a means of speculation and asserting a different set of values with which to re-imagine the future. In looking for a new framework for black diasporic artistic production, we are temporarily united in the following actions.
literatura de ciencia ficción
El Manifiesto Mundano 2004
I reproduce below the full text of “The Mundane Manifesto,” signed by Geoff Ryman and others from the 2004 Clarion West workshop (the complete list of workshop participants at the end of this post). The Manifesto argued for a science fiction that was squarely centered on humans and the future of planet Earth, including its science and technology, rather than spaceships and aliens.
Erick Mota writes about the future after your world has ended
SFRA 2024: This paper discusses the strategies used by Erick Mota in his Habana Underguater (2010) to process the economic and political effects of the Berlin Wall fall (1989) on the collective Cuban psyche, positing that this crisis affected the idea of national unity and expectations of collective progress, and its association with European ideals of modernity and implicit social whitening.
Diario de viaje: Conferencia anual de la Asociación de Investigación de Ciencia Ficción
Tuits de mi experiencia en la Conferencia anual de la Asociación de Investigación de Ciencia Ficción. Tartú (Estonia), del 7 al 11 de mayo de 2024.
Cuban-made Socialist Paradise?
Paper for ACLA 2024 Annual Meeting This paper proposes a critical reading of Cuban Science Fiction literature between 1959 and 1989, focusing on its problematic relation with Utopia. For almost forty years, the USSR's conventions and cultural policies regarding the genre strongly influenced Cuban science fiction. Yet, Cubans never managed to write Utopias or even happy socialist worlds.
Actualización en «Ciencia ficción para compartir»
No subía archivos nuevos a mi canal de Telegram dede octubre de 2023. Hoy estoy trabajando (ejem) en la ponencia para ACLA 2024 y me vi forzada a poner algunas cosas en orden. Aproveché para incorporar material al repositorio.
Bitácora de viaje 