Charles W. Mills begins the wide-ranging discussion in his 2005 essay, “‘Ideal Theory’ as Ideology” by clarifying that feminist thinkers have expanded the larger discussion of ethics in rapid and unifying ways (165). I have completed a list, however incomplete, of feminist readings that might be useful to some of you who, like me, are…
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Expansion of Utopian Struggle in the Motif of Entering a Room/Space(s) for Continuity
To quote Kim Stanley Robinson “utopia has gone from being a somewhat minor literary problem to a necessary survival strategy” (as quoted in “Guns Under the Table: Kim Stanley Robinson and the Transition to Utopia,” Utopian Studies, Oct. 2020, Andrew Miller, 389). To carry over this survival strategy for the sake of utopia from novelized…
From Morality-Tale Science Fiction to Fantasy-Infused Settler Colonialism
In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode, “Strange New World,” (2001) T’Pol attempts to caution Captain Archer and his crew about visiting the uninhabited planet they discover. She wants to take a number of days, just over a week, to complete scans from orbit and with probes. The lone Vulcan on the ship, T’Pol, will later…
Anti-Utopian Leadership
What is clear is that utopian science fiction offers us insights into what can be, and dystopian science fiction presents the most abysmal than can or is likely to come to pass. There is a third pillar I would refer to as anti-utopian. Anti-utopian, like to previous two pillars just mentioned, again, focuses on what…
The First Steps to Reaching a SciFi-Like Utopia From Where the Western World is Right Now
First it is essential to understand and to be able to perceive that progressives are just as toxic, just as politically charged, as centrists as well as the far Right. The only remaining hope that one can see from a truly detached, objective-esque position is to abandon modern concepts of government and to rebuild focusing…
On Time Travel, the Subconscious Signature, and Market Capitalism
Time travel is a worthwhile diversion. I would argue it stimulates a specific part of the imagination that is tied into the subconscious signature of the human experience. The (re)memory core of the imagination is detached from consumerism. It proves capitalism is not our natural state of being. True ontological becoming, not to be confused…
Solarpunk and the Vestiges of the Ascetic
About a month ago I had an idea for a book on a subject in which my knowledge is too limited to fill an entire book. The premise is that Transcendence, or experiencing transcendent consciousness, is overrated. It is directly related to the ancient conceptualization of the Righteous Nation* (See 2nd update below). A more…