Beyond Science Fiction
Hollywood wunderkind J.J. Abrams’ television drama “Revolution” imagined Earth after electricity, without explanation, abruptly died. Reading Quentin Meillassoux’s Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction, one wonders whether Abrams was familiar with the obscure French fiction that buttresses the book’s thesis, Rene Barjavel’s 1943 science-fiction novel Ravage. In it, “electricity stops existing overnight… yet remarkably, Barjavel does not really attempt to explain the phenomenon; he merely describes its cataclysmic consequences.”
Art and Posthumanism: Cary Wolfe in conversation with Art after Nature series editors Giovanni Aloi and Caroline Picard.
Life in Plastic: Petrochemical fantasies and synthetic sensibilities, with Caren Irr, Lisa Swanstrom, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, and Daniel Worden.
Live: A book launch for We Are Meant to Rise at Next Chapter Booksellers features Carolyn Holbrook, David Mura, Douglas Kearney, Melissa Olson, Said Shaiye, and Kao Kalia Yang.