Also, isn't he cute?

Thinking about this after several touching conversations w students today during office hours. Something about their commitment and courage in the face of all we're facing stirs up that special blend of love and fury that keeps me going, and fighting, and imagining ... not this.

What's striking to me is students' expressed sense that they are living in a world that is not so different from the worlds we encounter in this class. And questions of representation become less about the relative merits of science fiction, and more about a realism adequate to this moment ...

But added some goodies, like @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social recent incisive essay, "The Rise of End Times Fascism," www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... (pairs well with Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, btw)

It's always been a class about the potential complicities and capitulations of the apocalyptic imagination (AND the potentials of the speculative imagination). So I've held onto old standbys like Susan Sontag's classic essay, "The Imagination of Disaster" www.commentary.org/articles/sus...