“The Anthropocene and Posthumanism”
Science Fiction is a thought experiment which speculates, employing questions and discourse around a series of what ifs. Science Fiction explores the uncanny (or unheimlich), which Sigmund Freud defined as something familiar yet repressed (The Uncanny 1919). In German, the word unheimlich means something along the lines of unhomely, creating a sense of terror or fear in alienation. What do “home” and “alien” mean and to whom? Science Fiction experiments with multivalent selves. Science Fiction reveals. What it reveals is often up to readers and where they are on their personal journeys. Neil Gaiman writes, “Each of these books will take you somewhere else. When you return you may not be entirely the same person you were when you left. / May you return without harm, and may your travels never be entirely safe” (“What We Talk About When We Talk About Science Fiction”).
Dr. James Ivory
TR 11:00–12:15 and TR 2:00–3:15
Face to face
Course poster for ENG 2190, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Spring 2027 with J. Ivory, over a glowing orange, purple and blue nebula, with a quotation from Neil Gaiman.
