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Narrative Futures
By Oxford UniversityEducation
Narrative Futures episodes
- Episode 8 - Telling stories: Psychoanalysis and alien invasionTade Thompson explores alien invasion as a metaphor for colonialism and discusses the importance of psychoanalysis and self-awareness in the building of personal and group identities.39 min
- Episode 8 - Telling stories: Psychoanalysis and alien invasion (Transcript)Tade Thompson explores alien invasion as a metaphor for colonialism and discusses the importance of psychoanalysis and self-awareness in the building of personal and group identities.0 min
- Episode 7 - National myth: Rewriting America and ChinaKen Liu discusses the power of myth in the construction of national narratives and the revisionist work that epic fantasy can do to rewrite them, drawing on the weight of time as omnipresent to narrative intent.44 min
- Episode 7 - National myth: Rewriting America and China (Transcript)Ken Liu discusses the power of myth in the construction of national narratives and the revisionist work that epic fantasy can do to rewrite them, drawing on the weight of time as omnipresent to narrative intent.0 min
- Episode 6 - Climate fiction: Content dictates formEJ Swift describes her deep time speculative approach to climate fiction and the effect of content on form in speculative nested or fragmented narratives.36 min
- Episode 5 - Kitschies, indies, and ads: Juggling narrative formsJared Shurin explores his wide-ranging interests from anthologising speculative shorts to the Kitschies Awards to ethical advertising for revisioning global narratives.38 min
- Episode 6 - Climate fiction: Content dictates formEJ Swift describes her deep time speculative approach to climate fiction and the effect of content on form in speculative nested or fragmented narratives.36 min
- Episode 4: Short stories are short: Edit for meaningMahvesh Murad discusses the work of curating and editing anthologies of speculative short fiction, ethically, refusing the word 'diversity' for doing too little, too late.34 min
- Episode 3 - People like me: Speculation in PakistanSami Shah ranges over his radio, comedy and burgeoning literary career, and describes how he has to write himself into the speculative fiction space.36 min
- Episode 2 - Afrofuturism: For who?Mohale Mashigo describes her relationship with time, imagining a future inflected by apartheid, and her controversial Afrofuturism essay.33 min
About Narrative Futures
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Better narratives for a better future.
An interactive podcast featuring interviews with leading authors and editors in the speculative genre and writing prompts designed to support the imagination of better futures.
Narrative Futures is the capstone podcast project of the Futures Thinking network at TORCH. Devised, recorded and edited by Chelsea Haith, the Narrative Futures podcast features eight interviews with some of the mosts important authors and editors working in the the speculative genre today. At the end of each interview, novelist and creative writing tutor Louis Greenberg presents two writing prompts which are designed to support engaged thought and creative imagination about the interview and the listener's own creative practice in narrative building.
Interviewed on the podcast are Lauren Beukes, Mohale Mashigo, Sami Shah, Mahvesh Murad, Jared Shurin, EJ Swift, Ken Liu, and Tade Thompson. Each interview explores writing strategies, hopes and fears for the future, opinions on genre fiction and tackles questions such as: How do you conceive of and write time? Why is alien invasion a good metaphor for colonialism? What would a benevolent AI look like? What kind of representation is needed in the speculative genre? Are the old stories of future worlds still relevant? How do we integrate the present pandemic into our future imaginaries?
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