Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Investigation of power and dominion, through the lens of genre fiction, interviews, and essays,
Following the popular Global Dystopias, bestselling author and Boston Review editor Junot D az assembles another collection of genre fiction, interviews, and essays that turn a critical lens on society. With a title that is an allusion to Ronald Reagan's characterization of the Soviet Union, Evil Empire explores imaginary empires alongside historical ones, considering gender and racial regimes as well as the ascendancy of technology.
Featuring some of the biggest names in fiction as well as relative newcomers, Evil Empire offers a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, techno-thrillers, and more. In their investigation of power and dominion, these writers raise a multitude of challenging questions. One writer, for example, imagines "the algorithmic governance of affect"--a world in which the credit scores of misbehaving and dissenting citizens are marked down at government request; another revisits Reagan's 1983 "Evil Empire" speech and considers the burdensome legacy of Reagan's words. D az interviews Tom Morello, guitarist with Rage Against the Machine, whose 1996 album was titled "Evil Empire."
Contributors include
Junot D az, Michael Kimmage, Tom Morello, Frank Pasquale, Arundhati Roy
Synopsis
Investigation of power and dominion, through the lens of genre fiction, interviews, and essays.
A collection of genre fiction, interviews, and essays that turn a critical lens on society, Evil Empire explores imaginary empires alongside historical ones, considering gender and racial regimes as well as the ascendancy of technology.
Featuring some of the biggest names in fiction as well as relative newcomers, Evil Empire offers a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, techno-thrillers, and more. In their investigation of power and dominion, these writers raise a multitude of challenging questions. One writer, for example, imagines "the algorithmic governance of affect"--a world in which the credit scores of misbehaving and dissenting citizens are marked down at government request; another revisits Reagan's 1983 "Evil Empire" speech and considers the burdensome legacy of Reagan's words.
Contributors include
Michael Kimmage, Frank Pasquale, Arundhati Roy
Synopsis
Investigation of power and dominion, through the lens of genre fiction, interviews, and essays.
"All history," writes Maximillian Alvarez, "is the history of empire--a bid for control of that greatest expanse of territory, the past." Evil Empire confronts these histories head-on, exploring the motivations, consequences, and surprising resiliency of empire and its narratives. Contributors grapple with the economic, technological, racial, and rhetorical elements of U.S. power and show how the effects are far-reaching and, in many ways, self-defeating. Drawing on a range of disciplines--from political science to science fiction--our authors approach the theme with imagination and urgency, animated by the desire to strengthen the fight for a better future.
Contributors
Maximillian Alvarez, Mark Bould, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Adom Getachew, Yuri Herrera, Michael Kimmage, Marisol LeBr n, Pankaj Mishra, Jeanne Morefield, Frank Pasquale, Arundhati Roy, Stuart Schrader, Nikhil Pal Singh
Synopsis
"All history," writes Maximillian Alvarez in his contribution to this issue, "is the history of empire--a bid for control of that greatest expanse of territory, the past." Evil Empire confronts these histories head-on, exploring the motivations, consequences, and surprising resiliency of empire and its narratives.
Contributors grapple with the economic, technological, racial, and rhetorical elements of U.S. power and show how the effects are far-reaching and, in many ways, self-defeating. Drawing on a range of disciplines--from political science to science fiction--our authors approach the theme with imagination and urgency, animated by the desire to strengthen the fight for a better future.