Planetcentric

Tag: narrative

  • Storming the fortress

    Storming the fortress

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    Chris Riedy
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    I use The Hunger Games to explore a type of dystopian narrative called a fortress world. In these unequal worlds, a hero arises to storm the fortress and set us free. Unfortunately, the real world is much more complex than these imagined worlds.

  • Hope amongst the ruins

    Hope amongst the ruins

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    Chris Riedy
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    An exploration of how hope lives on even in the most dystopian realities and stories. The post connects Hiroshima and Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Road.

  • Regenerating imagination, imagining regeneration

    Regenerating imagination, imagining regeneration

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    Chris Riedy
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    I am starting a new blog called Planetcentric with the tagline ‘regenerating imagination, imagining regeneration’. This first post gives background to the project, which will explore how we can build our collective imaginative capacity to support emergence of regenerative futures. In upcoming posts, you can expect to read about ideas from speculative fiction genres such…