ENGL 548: Science Fiction and Planetary Computing

“We’re in a science fiction novel now, which we are cowriting together.”
—Kim Stanley Robinson, “The Realism of Our Times”

A few weeks into Spring 2020’s COVID-19 pandemic, Benjamin Bratton of the Strelka institute released “18 Lessons of Quarantine Urbanism.” Some of the lessons included “an epidemiological view of society” emphasizing the biological relationality over individualistic substance; and “governing model simulations” in which algorithmic surveillance and predictive mathematical mo...