The BREAK—DOWN
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Utopia and Crisis

Breaking down the power of science fiction to grapple with our gravest political challenges.

With Kim Stanley Robinson

In a 2004 essay for the New Left Review, theorist and literary critic Fredric Jameson wrote: “Utopias are non-fictional, even though they are also non-existent. Utopias in fact come to us as barely audible messages from a future that may never come into being.”

Today's episode of the BREAK—DOWN explores the idea and the power of utopian fiction with guest Kim Stanley Robinson, the acclaimed science fiction author whose most recent novel, The Ministry for the Future, offers a harrowing and detailed vision of how we might respond to the climate crisis.

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