#kim_stanley_robinson

[La vie électrique] Foie gras et apocalypse
▻https://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/la-vie-electrique/foie-gras-et-apocalypse

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Aujourd’hui, on parle des films de #peter_strickland et de deux livres (dont on a déjà parlé, mais on y revient quand même)

Flux Gourmet, de Peter Strickland Berberian Sound Studio, de Peter Strickland Blank Narcissus - Passion of the swamp, de Peter Strickland (les trois films sont visibles sur Mubi) A country of ghosts, #margaret_killjoy (éditions Black Dawn) Le ministère du futur, #kim_stanley_robinson (éditions Bragelonne)

Programmation musicale :

Sauveur Mallia - Star Odyssey The Sonic Catering Band - Foie Gras (Remix by Nish) The Sonic Catering Band - Cosmic Seafood Fusion (remix by They came from the stars; I saw them) Broadcast - Teresa, lark of ascension (Berberian Sound Studio soundtrack) Bela - (...)

#science-fiction #science-fiction,kim_stanley_robinson,peter_strickland,margaret_killjoy
▻https://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/la-vie-electrique/foie-gras-et-apocalypse_17204__1.mp3

Imagining the End of Capitalism With Kim Stanley Robinson
▻https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/kim-stanley-robinson-ministry-future-science-fiction

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What I want to say to all my leftist readers is, get over it [geoengineering]. We’re in an all-hands-on-deck situation, where every possible thing that has ever been suggested to escape the mass extinction event is going to be on the table. And these theoretical arguments — it’s just another capitalist ploy, it’s a silver bullet, it’s a fantasy — well, some of that’s true and some of it isn’t. So there is no excuse for ideological rigidity about something this important. As a leftist, I would say to other leftists: Get over the prejudice against the term geoengineering and look again at the situation that we’re in. We need to decarbonize. Anything we do at scale to achieve that is a form of geoengineering.

An Astrobiologist Asks a Sci-fi Novelist How to Survive the Anthropocene - Issue 28: 2050
▻http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/an-astrobiologist-asks-a-sci_fi-novelist-how-to-survive-the-anthropocene-rp

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Humans will have a chance to prove their adaptability as the Earth undergoes unprecedented challenges in the Anthropocene, an era named after our impact on the biosphere. To learn what it takes to survive far into the future, astrobiologist David Grinspoon interviewed Kim Stanley Robinson, a writer regarded as one of the most important science fiction and political novelists alive today. Robinson’s recent book, 2312, permits humans to survive near-extinction and populate the solar system over the course of 300 years. We decided to kick off the conversation with a 2312 excerpt from the chapter, “Earth, The Planet of Sadness:” “Clean tech came too late to save Earth from the catastrophes of the early Anthropocene. It was one of the ironies of their time that they could radically change the (...)