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next up: Sci-Fi Sunday! 27 April 18h – Chinese SciFi

Zu Gast: Jessica Imbach, Junior Professor in Freiburg and specialist for aesthetics and politics of genre fiction in China, focusing in particular on science fiction

Wir werden also über Fortschrittsglauben und -geschichten in China reden – und wie sich das vom Westen unterscheidet. Gibt es überhaupt so etwas wie eine “chinesische” SciFi-Tradition? Was wäre daran charakteristisch? Lässt sich via SciFi Gesellschaftskritik leichter an den Zensoren vorbeischmuggeln?

What started in 1985 as an intellectual debate on the meaning and relevance of tradition (Confucianism in particular), science, and Western theory to China’s integration into the global economic system, was by the time it violently ended in 1989 a nation-wide discussion on national identity and globalisation that also had an enormous influence on popular culture.

Und was hat es mit dem Sinofuturismus auf sich?

modes of care

Kunst ist ein Akt der Co-Fürsorge – Diskussionsrunden with care (und Essen)

new weird book club – | – sci-fi sunday

there’s two sides to the fantasy/sci-fi symbiont moon: every 2nd sunday of the month new weird book club, every 4th: sci-fi sunday! with screenings, discussions, guests, stay tuned for surprising space explorations.