SF: Science Fiction, Speculative Fabulation, String Figures, So Far

@article{Haraway2013SFSF,
  title={SF: Science Fiction, Speculative Fabulation, String Figures, So Far},
  author={Donna Jeanne Haraway and Donna Jeanne Haraway},
  journal={Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology},
  year={2013}
}
  • D. HarawayD. Haraway
  • Published 1 November 2013
  • Art
  • Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology
In resistance to capitalist logics of speculation, this article argues for audacious pedagogies of speculative fabulation. The kinds of pedagogical endeavours that times of uncertainty call for are by no means straightforward, calling as I argue along with Elizabeth de Freitas (2020) writing in this issue, for more venturesome approaches informed by speculative posthuman inquiries and exploratory new materialisms. The Anthropocene or Capitalocene are terms that capture equivocal nature of the… 
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