{"product_id":"hot-equations-science-fantasy-and-the-radical-imagination-on-a-troubled-planet-hardback-9781496850157","title":"Hot Equations; Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet (Hardback) 9781496850157","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHot Equations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eScience, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJesse S. Cohn (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496850157\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 May 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages, 7 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.3 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHot Equations \u003c\/i\u003eopens compelling new approaches to the study of science fiction and demonstrates the immense value of anarchist and antifascist analyses in the field.\" - James Gifford, author of \u003cem\u003eA Modernist Fantasy: Anarchism, Modernism, and the Radical Fantastic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The culmination of decades of experience, \u003ci\u003eHot Equations\u003c\/i\u003e is an exciting entry in the anarchist study of science fiction\/fantasy and literature.\" - Andrew Culp, professor of media history and theory at California Institute of the Arts and author of \u003cem\u003eDark Deleuze\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eInspired by the new diversity of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century, \u003ci\u003eHot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet\u003c\/i\u003e confronts the kinds of literary and political \"realism\" that continue to suppress the radical imagination. Alluding both to the ongoing climate catastrophe and to Tom Godwin’s \"The Cold Equations\"—that famous touchstone of \"hard science fiction\"—\u003ci\u003eHot Equations\u003c\/i\u003e reads the crises of our \"post-normal\" moment via works that increasingly subvert genre containment and spill out into the public sphere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on archives and contemporary theory, author Jesse S. Cohn argues that these imaginative works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror strike at the very foundations of modernity, calling its basic assumptions into question. They threaten the modern order with a simultaneously terrible and promising anarchy, pointing to ways beyond the present medical, ecological, and political crises of pandemic, climate change, and rising global fascism. Examining books ranging from well-known titles like \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger Games \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Caves of Steel \u003c\/i\u003eto newer works such as \u003ci\u003eUnder the Pendulum Sun \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Stone Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, Cohn investigates the ways in which science fiction, fantasy, and horror address contemporary politics, social issues, and more. The \"cold equations\" that established normal life in the modern world may be in shambles, Cohn suggests, but a New Black Fantastic makes it possible for the radical imagination to glimpse viable possibilities on the other side of crisis.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I: Escape from the Great Sorting Machine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Predictive Analytics for Monstrous Times\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Sublime Machines: Valves of the Heart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Methodological Metafetishism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Unbarring the Other\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II: The Fantastic within and Beyond Modernity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Notes toward a Rhetoric of the Fantastic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Rhetorics of the Impossible\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Rhetorical Sovereignty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III: Toward a Multiplicative Realism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. The Rhetoric of Fictive Science, Or: The Academy of Outrageous Books\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. How the Gordin Brothers Escaped Western Gravity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart IV: Fantastic Politics in an Imperiled Pluriverse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Unicorn Rhetoric\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. The Fantastic from Counterpublic to Public Imaginary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12. Acting Supernaturally (With Notes on the Monster of Anarchy)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix: A Provisional Manifesto for Nonmodern Anarchisms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607715541272,"sku":"9781496850157","price":67.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/hot-equations-science-fantasy-and-the-radical-imagination-on-a-troubled-planet-hardback-9781496850157","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}