Fiction & imagined futures
Stories and creative movements can help us ask how to live and what futures to build. Fictional worlds are identified as fiction; living movements are named separately.
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Vulcan logic and IDIC in Star Trek
Star Trek uses Vulcan logic and IDIC, or infinite diversity in infinite combinations, to ask how reason, emotion, and difference might shape a shared future.
Vulcan · Star Trek · 6 highlights↗Jedi ethics and the Force in Star Wars
The Jedi stories explore service, self-discipline, compassion, and the danger of power through an order whose ideals are repeatedly tested by war and attachment.
The Jedi Order · Star Wars · 6 highlights↗Mercy and power in The Lord of the Rings
Tolkien’s story makes mercy, ordinary courage, and the refusal to dominate central to its account of how a world can be saved.
The Lord of the Rings · J. R. R. Tolkien · 6 highlights↗Solarpunk and the futures we can make
Solarpunk is a creative movement that imagines socially fairer, ecologically livable futures and asks what it would take to build them.
Creative movement · multiple communities · 6 highlights↗The future in William Morris’s News from Nowhere
William Morris’s utopian novel imagines a future where work, common life, and beauty have been reorganized after industrial capitalism.
Britain · 1890 · 6 highlights↗Afrofuturism and Black futures
Afrofuturism draws on Black art, music, writing, and thought to reclaim history and imagine futures shaped by Black freedom and agency.
Africa and the global Black diaspora · 6 highlights↗Indigenous futurisms
Indigenous futurisms are creative ways Indigenous artists and writers imagine futures in which their peoples, languages, and knowledge continue and transform.
Many Indigenous nations · 6 highlights↗