Voyant Discoveries

I have to say I’m a bit surprised by this distribution of terms. This word bubble makes it look like I spent most of my research looking into time travel. While I do a  have a few articles looking into the feasibility of time travel inspired by our conversations in class on the topic, my research was fairly focused otherwise. The two main areas I looked into were feminism and architecture/urbanism in science fiction. I find myself especially interested in feminism in science fiction, because I have found myself reading many of the stories in class from a feminist lens, and while I feel the genre has a unique opportunity to explore gender it seems many works handle the subject poorly. One really interesting thing I read was that in a futuristic society without gender, people would have less freedom than men in our society, because you need a hierarchy to achieve more power. I also looked into a theme of feminist utopias in SF. I also focused on architecture and urban planning in SF, and while I didn’t find many articles I loved I did discover there’s a science fiction novel “The Municipalizes” targeted towards urban planners (it takes place in a future city that reveals the strengths and failures of American cities now).

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