SF: Speculative Fabulation and String Figures [electronic resource].

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SF: Speculative Fabulation and String Figures [electronic resource].

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Hatje Cantz 2012

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Consider a fictional multiple integral equation that is a flawed trope and a serious joke in an effort to picture what an intersectional—or intra-actional—theory might look like in Terrapolis. Think of this formalism as the mathematics of sf. Sf is that potent material semiotic sign for the riches of speculative fabulation, speculative feminism, science fiction, science fact, science fantasy—and, I suggest, string figures. In looping threads and relays of patterning, this sf practice is a model for worlding. Sf must also mean “so far,” opening up what is yet-to-come in protean time’s pasts, presents, and futures…
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