The Importance of Animistic Reason in Science Fiction

John Ryder has a whole book about how science fiction develops out of the colonial imagination then that within quote unquote the west. We can't really understand what's going on with science fiction and the kind of fantastical imaginary that develops in the imperial period without understanding how imperialism itself functions, says sailor. There is a real sense that like the imagination of the individual must be disciplined in order to create a sort of functioning member of society because the the imagination without discipline is going to just result in social disorder and chaos.