Brutalist Websites
Francis Tseng
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Speculating Futures looks at past speculative narratives, like those of Ursula K. Le Guin, and past attempts at creating technological utopia, like Chile's Cybersyn. These readings examine the shortcomings that prevented these visions from being fully realized and how they may have been limited or exclusionary. These texts also tie these visions to the contemporary issues/present dystopias that need to be addressed in subsequent utopian imaginaries. To paraphrase Gibson, "Utopia and dystopia are here, they'
This syllabus was first launched in December 2016 for The New Inquiry 's Science/Fiction issue. It will probably never be complete; it's always open to suggestions. If you're familiar with GitHub, please don't hesitate to submit a pull request ; if not, feel free to send suggestions to me on Twitter (@frnsys) .
For additional readings see the text version of this syllabus.
Brutalist Websites
Francis Tseng