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Free Thinking: Science Fiction and ecological thinking

Science Fiction and ecological thinking

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Hetta Howes, Amy Butt and Caroline Edwards ask if science fiction is the new realism.

Science fiction is often called the literature of cognitive estrangement, helping us to see things in a new light. An architecture specialist and a literary critic compare notes.

Hetta Howes discusses current academic thinking on science fiction, as a way of thinking that extends beyond writing, film and TV to architecture and beyond. With Caroline Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, and Amy Butt, Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Reading.

This conversation was recorded in mid February before coronavirus hit the UK.
It is one of a series of conversations - New Thinking - produced in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UK Research & Innovation.
Further podcasts are available on the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking website under the playlist New Research https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90

In the Free Thinking archives:
New Generation Thinker Sarah Dillon’s Essay on is science fiction is sexist https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g2wkp
A discussion about Zamyatin’s novel We https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03f8bqz
A discussion with Naomi Alderman, Roger Luckhurst and Alessandro Vincentelli on science fiction & space travel https://www.bbc.com/programmes/b04ps158
Matthew Sweet explores psychohistory and Isaac Asimov and guiding the future https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d84g
Naomi Alderman is in conversation with Margaret Atwood https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07xhzy8
Ursula Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b6yb37

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