An Investigation into the Role of Science & Speculative Fiction for Reframing Modes of Engagement with Urban Environments for Multispecies Collaborati

对科学作用的调查

• 批准号: 2721435
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2721435
• 关键词: Investigation; into; Role; Science; Speculative

Full title: Science Fact, Fiction and Futures: An Investigation into the Role of Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction for Reframing Modes of Engagement with Urban Environments for Multispecies Collaboration. With urban populations forecasted at 70% of the global population by 2050 and to absorb virtually all future population growth (UN, 2019), it's unsurprising that urban spaces are becoming focal points for future efforts to ameliorate anthropogenic climate change. Often narrativized as starkly utopian or dystopian, the urban environment has been taken as a site for manifesting anthropogenic anxieties and triumphs in science and speculative fiction (SSF). This project will explore how SSF from 1950 to present offers modes of departure from dualistic representations of urban environments which consider the potential for alternative perceptions, alert to the presence, role and importance of the nonhuman in urban assemblages.With the realisation of the impossibility of utopian perfectibility in the 1950's, which brought Arthur C Clarke's interplanetary narratives, the second half of the twentieth century saw an increasingly ambivalent narrativization of urban environments. From the hopeful 1960's urban avant-garde movement, to fears of urban atrophy and degeneration, as seen in Doris Lessing's work, up to a cautiously hopeful literary context embodied by Megan Hunter's The End We StartFrom (2017) and Tade Thompson's Rosewater Redemption (2019), cityscapes in SSF have consistently been multispecies environments and cultural discourses in flux.To facilitate this reading of nonhuman/human and material/discursive interpenetration in urban literary representations, I will use New Materialist perspectives, including Stacy Alaimo's theorisation of transcorporeality. Transcorporeality decentres anthropocentric discourses by repositioning the human 'as substantially and perpetually interconnected with the flows of substances and the agencies of environments' (2012, p.478). By exploring these 'flows' in imagined urban environments, where nonhuman others are foregrounded as agential, a more expansive and ethical interaction with our everyday natures may be conceptualised. To avoid dualistic utopianism and Judeo-Christian structures of apocalypse which have been popular fictional tools for motivating meaningful environmental change, I will engage with an ethics of ongoing change as articulated by Donna Haraway's premise of 'staying with the trouble', described as: "learning to be truly present, not as a vanishing pivot between awful or edenic pasts and apocalyptic or salvific futures, but as mortal critters entwined in myriad unfinished configurations or places, time, matter, meanings. (2016, p.1) "Rather than engaging in environmental narratives leading to concretized endings, Haraway suggests we stay with the trouble by examining our present and modes of material/discursive interaction with it, to identify new or existing connections which offer more ontologically and epistemologically harmonious 'worldings'. As genres which construct whole worlds or futures, this research will evaluate how science fiction and near future fiction narratives are positioned to foreground urban spaces which imaginatively challenge anthropocentric frameworks for more ethical and expansive engagement with nonhuman co-collaborators. By identifying narrative patterns and structures for nonhuman/human relations within SSF texts, the project will reflect on current and alternative sustainable modes of inhabiting our multispecies cities for ecologically generative futures.

完整的标题：科学事实，小说和未来：对科幻小说和投机小说的作用的调查，以重新定义与城市环境进行多种产品合作的方式。到2050年，城市人口预测为全球人口的70％，并吸收几乎所有未来的人口增长（联合国，2019年），毫不奇怪的是，城市空间正成为改善人为气候变化的未来努力的重点。城市环境通常被叙述为乌托邦或反乌托邦，被视为表现出人为焦虑和胜利的科学和投机小说（SSF）的场所。 This project will explore how SSF from 1950 to present offers modes of departure from dualistic representations of urban environments which consider the potential for alternative perceptions, alert to the presence, role and importance of the nonhuman in urban assemblages.With the realisation of the impossibility of utopian perfectibility in the 1950's, which brought Arthur C Clarke's interplanetary narratives, the second half of the twentieth century saw an increasingly城市环境的矛盾叙事化。从充满希望的1960年代的城市前卫运动到对城市萎缩和堕落的恐惧，如多丽丝·莱辛（Doris Lessing）的作品所见，到梅根·亨特（Megan Hunter）的《终点》（The End oferfrom）（2017年）和tade汤普森（Tade Thompson）的玫瑰水救赎（2019年）所表现出的莫曼·亨特（Megan Hunter's The End）的谨慎地充满希望的文学背景，在ssf中，越来越多，越来越多，越来越多地派遣了SSF。 Flux.为了促进在城市文学代表中对非人类/人类和材料/话语互穿的阅读，我将使用新的唯物主义观点，包括Stacy Alaimo的经跨企业的理论。跨表面的人类以人类为中心的话语通过重新定位人类“与物质和环境机构的流量和环境机构的流量相互联系”（2012年，第478页）。通过在想象中的城市环境中探索这些“流动”，在那些非人类的环境中，其他人被视为构成的，可以概念化与我们日常出现的更广泛和更具道德的互动。为了避免启动二元乌托邦主义和犹太基督教的结构，这些结构是激励有意义的环境变化的流行的虚构工具，我将与唐娜·哈拉威（Donna Haraway）表达的持续变化的伦理互动，这是由唐娜·哈拉威（Donna Haraway）的前提所表达的，这是由“与之待遇”的前提，被描述为：致命的小动物与无数的配置或地点，时间，物质，含义（2016年，第1页）交织在一起。作为构建整个世界或未来的流派，这项研究将评估科幻小说和不久的将来的小说叙事如何将其定位为前景的城市空间，这些空间在想象中挑战了以人类为中心的框架，以更具道德和广泛的与非人类的共同制定者的交往。通过确定SSF文本中非人类/人际关系的叙事模式和结构，该项目将反映出当前和替代性可持续性的方式，这些模式居住在我们的多种城市中，以实现生态产生的未来。