Sci-Fi and the Politics of the Future: An Interview with Steven Shaviro featuring Acid Horizon
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The Importance of Science Fiction in Academic Discourse
In terms of academia, Darko Suban who's the sky origin from Yugoslavia but toward it McGill University in Montreal sort of introduced ideas about science fiction to mainstream Anglo-American academic discourse. So he said science fiction was cognitive estrangement. Estrangement meaning that it was not naturalistic it was not the world we know it was an alternative world and it estranged us. And you have something which precisely strages us from actuality in ways that force us to think. A singing of Gertold Brecht also in the early mid 20th century who is a playwright who tried to create a theater in which he didn't want audiences to identify with the characters or get totally
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