Speculative Humanities Cluster

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The Speculative Humanities Cluster analyses how speculative literatures inform decision-making from government policy to corporate futures, and the mutual influence between technology, scientific discovery and cultural forms and representations. How science fiction appeals to rational sources for its imaginative productions, and how this has made it culturally persuasive in science and technology.

The cluster aim is to foster greater collaboration between the arts and humanities, the social sciences, STEM and beyond. In summer 2020, members of the group created speculative narratives for a sandbox event that brought together multiple academics and community stakeholders to consider the social and future impact of the COVID-19 crisis.

This cluster focuses on the following strands of research:

• speculative drama and climate change
• artificial intelligence and World War I
• military technology and science fiction
• law and post-humanism
• disaster responsiveness and social class
• dystopian writing for the future

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University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
CO4 3SQ