“It will be upon a time”, said science fiction to the city
“ We cannot free ourselves from extreme projections, because we live in an extreme world. ”
- Publish On 26 January 2024
- Pierre-Antoine Marti
- 26 minutes
Space is one of the great imaginary worlds of science fiction. By often depicting dystopian cities, authors sketch the contours of a desirable urbanity. Using science fiction as a field of investigation, Pierre-Antoine Marti, a PhD candidate in history at EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences), uses representations of the future as a dataset for prospective reflection on the interplay between science fiction and innovation.
