"Millimetre": An Interdisciplinary and Ecocritical Creative Writing Project

“毫米”是一系列相互关联的科幻故事，探讨人类对非人类动物的看法，以及人类如何与“他者”联系在一起，以环境保护主义、物种主义和多元宇宙理论为背景。通过构建一系列以不同形式出现的人与动物关系的平行世界，该合集邀请读者提出关于我们目前与动物的关系的复杂问题，以及在当前生态系统状态下人类关系的潜在未来方向。根据我作为作家和科学家的背景，“毫米”利用创意写作提供的机会，对生态批评问题进行独特的干预。通过投机小说的形式，我们可以探索人类与动物关系的可能性，并对物种主义、人类中心主义和环境失衡等问题提出质疑。这项工作将形成一个有价值的伴侣，现有的非小说研究人类与动物的关系，也将批评许多现有的科幻文学的人类中心假设。这个博士学位的关键要素将探索和阐明科幻文学中的物种主义、理论物理学和人类行为等问题，考虑生态批评的创意写作是如何被动物在当代文化中所扮演的角色所影响的，并为更广泛的社会学辩论做出贡献。它将通过一系列生态批评理论家和现有的文学实例，为思辨小说在未来思考人类与动物关系的背景下提出一个激进的角色。在这样做的过程中，它的目的是强调在小说中表达动物的现有尝试的局限性，并将着眼于突出真正生态文学的可能性的著名例子。

'Millimetre' is a series of interlinked science fiction stories exploring human perceptions of non-human animals and how humans relate to the 'other', against the background topics of environmentalism, speciesism and multiverse theory. Through constructing a series of parallel worlds in which human-animal relations have emerged in different forms, the collection invites readers to ask complex questions about our own relationship to the animal in the present, and also the potential future direction of human-relations in the context of the current state of the ecosystem. Drawing from my background as a writer and scientist, 'Millimetre' exploits the opportunities offered by creative writing to make unique interventions into ecocritical problems. Through the form of speculative fiction, it is possible to examine alternative worlds in which possibilities for human-animal relations can be explored, offering provocations into issues such as speciesism, anthropocentrism, and environmental imbalance. This work will form a valuable companion to existing non-fiction studies of human-animal relations and will also critique the anthropocentric assumptions of much existing science fiction literature.The critical element of this PhD will explore and illuminate issues around speciesism, theoretical physics and human behaviour within science-fiction literature, considering how ecocritical creative writing is both informed by and contributes to broader sociological debates regarding the role of the animal in contemporary culture. It will suggest a radical role for speculative fiction in the context of future-thinking about human-animal relations, informed by a range of ecocritical theorists and existing literary examples. In doing so, it will aim to highlight the limitations of existing attempts within fiction to voice the animal, and will look to notable examples that highlight the possibility of a genuinely ecological literature.