How can science and science fiction light up what we are experiencing?
By: Caroline Lachowsky
How can science and science fiction light up what we are experiencing? From the exponential growth of the virus to the need for ethics for the future: how does science fiction open up to all the imaginable possibilities?
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Let us try to shed light on what we are experiencing in the light of science and science fiction: why and how is the imagination of science fiction authors often visionary? Can it inspire us in the present and enable us to explore and invent other possibilities? And even a true ethics of the future and for the future?
With astrophysicist Roland Lehoucq. He has just signed an article for The Conversation : Facing the wall of exponential growth .
Yannick Rumpala , lecturer in Political Science at the University of Nice, author of the book Hors des décombres du monde published by Éditions Champ Vallon.
Anne-Caroline Prévot , CNRS researcher in the Species conservation, restoration and population monitoring laboratory. She is also a conservation biologist at the Museum of Natural History and has just set up science fiction writing workshops with her students.
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