As of 2019, Newitz is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. From 2008 to 2015 Newitz was Editor-in-Chief of Gawker-owned media venture io9, and subsequently its direct descendant Gizmodo, Gawker’s design and technology blog. With Charlie Jane Anders, they also co-founded Other magazine, a periodical that ran from 2002 to 2007. In 2004 Newitz became a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

From 1999 to 2008 Newitz wrote a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation, and from 2000 to 2004 was the culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In conversation with Iain McIntyre, Shelley Streeby and Annalee Newitz discuss the ability of science fiction to help us envision different futures and come up with creative strategies to achieve them.Īnnalee Newitz is a journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction, who has written for the periodicals Popular Science and Wired. Videos Imagining New Worlds – What Activists Can and Have Learnt From Sci-Fi The videos below include some of the sessions that particularly focused on the links between sci-fi and forms of activism. On February 26th and 27th, 2022 City Lights Bookshop hosted a two-day online symposium taking its cues from the book Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1986. All organising is science fiction.” The refracting of the present and the exploration of possibilities, both terrifying and liberating, is what gives speculative and science fiction their potential to provide activists with visions of change and opportunities to imagine and explore the means to reach them.

Dangerous Visions: The Forever War: Vietnam’s Impact on Sci-FiĪuthor, commentator and activist Walidah Imarisha has argued that “Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we are engaging in speculative fiction.

Bursting Through The Boundaries – Queering SF.

Wild Seed: Reflecting on the work and impact of Octavia Butler.

Imagining New Worlds – What Activists Can and Have Learnt From Sci-Fi.

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