episode 36: eigenrobot vs science fictionhttps://soundcloud.com/user-557955426/episode-36-eigenrobot-vs-science-fiction …
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two weeks ago I recorded this episode with all of the 2021 Prometheus Award Best Novel finalists: Mackey Chandler, Barry B. Longyear, Marc Stiegler, Dennis E. Taylor, and our very own
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like probably most of you I've been into science fiction since I could read and it was a real pleasure to give people who write it a platform to speak about whatever was on their minds (naturally of course mostly scifi)
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one of my actual beliefs is that we lack a vision of what a good society looks like in a post-modern world. I see science fiction, among other things as a vital literary means of exploring what it might look like; and so I am extremely grateful for their work.
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"what a good society looks like" is a totalizing narrative, which postmodernism is explicitly against (when it's not being confused with modernism)
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hmmm im not sure this is true although surely there are many possible Good outcomes
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