Climate Future Fiction, Hopepunk, and Solarpunk, Thursday, August 27, 1:30 pm, El Capitan AB
The world feels heavy, the future uncertain. But it is not time to accept the inevitable. It’s time to light the fires, build our own suns and rewrite our future. Are cli-fi, hopepunk, and solarpunk the answer? It can be hard to build a better future if we dont know how to picture it. Let’s take a look at the world through the lens of science fiction genres that are letting their hope shine through in their work.
Law, Corporations, and Dystopia in SFF, Thursday, August 27, 6:00 pm, El Capitan AB
From surveillance states to corporate overlords, SFF loves to imagine systems of power gone wrong. Panelists with legal, tech, and policy backgrounds discuss what fiction gets right (and wrong) about how institutional power actually works—and how to make your dystopia more chillingly plausible.
Justice Systems in SFF, Friday, August 28, 7:30 pm, El Capitan AB
Understandings of what justice is, what it means, and how to systematize it, varies across cultures past and present. From anarchistic to restorative, collective to corportate, there have been a wide variety of justice systems portrayed throughout science fiction books and media. This panel explores justice systems in science fiction and fantasy that may be very different from the ones we see in societies today.
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