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Programming the Future
Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV
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Sherryl Vint
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English
Published/Copyright:
2022
About this book
Programming the Future examines how recent speculative television takes on the contradictions of the neoliberal order. Sherryl Vint and Jonathan Alexander consider a range of popular SF narratives of the last two decades, including Battlestar Galactica, Watchmen, Colony, The Man in the High Castle, The Expanse, and Mr. Robot.
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Sherryl Vint is professor of media and cultural studies and of English at the University of California, Riverside. Her books include Science Fiction: A Guide for the Perplexed (2014) and Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction (2021). She is an editor of Science Fiction Studies and the recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor’s Professor of English and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. His many books include Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship (2017) and the Creep Trilogy of critical memoirs, and he is the YA editor for and a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor’s Professor of English and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. His many books include Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship (2017) and the Creep Trilogy of critical memoirs, and he is the YA editor for and a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Tom Moylan, author of Becoming Utopian: The Politics and Culture of Radical Transformation:
By way of a vigorous engagement with the problematics and the politics of form, Vint and Alexander mobilize the generic operations of the utopian and dystopian imaginaries in order to decisively explicate the ways in which a selection of recent science fictional television series challenge the operations of the neoliberal order even as they refuse nihilistic resignation by way of figuring radical utopian alternatives. In doing so, they provide readers and viewers with a deep interpretive interrogation of our contemporary social order that generates a standpoint and politics of hope emerging from our dark times.
By way of a vigorous engagement with the problematics and the politics of form, Vint and Alexander mobilize the generic operations of the utopian and dystopian imaginaries in order to decisively explicate the ways in which a selection of recent science fictional television series challenge the operations of the neoliberal order even as they refuse nihilistic resignation by way of figuring radical utopian alternatives. In doing so, they provide readers and viewers with a deep interpretive interrogation of our contemporary social order that generates a standpoint and politics of hope emerging from our dark times.
Gerry Canavan, Marquette University:
From the post-9/11 Battlestar Galactica to Mr. Robot, from questions of neoliberalization and political polarization to surveillance society and the war on terror, Vint and Alexander's Programming the Future is an exemplary study of twenty-first-century science fiction television as seen through the crisis of U.S. democracy.
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November 1, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9780231552578
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