{"id":20704,"date":"2020-09-21T08:48:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T06:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asta-lueneburg.de\/cyborg-and-friends-feminist-science-fiction\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T13:53:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T12:53:58","slug":"cyborg-and-friends-feminist-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.asta-lueneburg.de\/en\/cyborg-and-friends-feminist-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cyborg and Friends &#8211; Feminist Science Fiction&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Winter semester 2019\/ 2020 &#8211; Lena Panten and Liane Schlumberger<\/p>\n\n<p>The starting point of the seminar was the question of how the telling of<br\/>new stories can change our perspectives on the future and thus make<br\/>other futures possible. This question had previously arisen in<br\/>connection with a seminar on Donna Haraway and our resulting<br\/>conversations.<br\/>The Cyborgs and Friends group met every two weeks to discuss<br\/>stories that could be categorized in the &#8220;feminist science<br\/>fiction&#8221; genre. During these meetings we have read<br\/>short stories and excerpts from novels, watched short films and a<br\/>documentary. Depending on the topic of the meeting, we<br\/>moved more or less far away from Donna Haraway<br\/>in our conversations, but we always returned to her starting point of &#8220;Storytelling<br\/>for Earthly Survival &#8220;<sup>1<\/sup>. Some points that particularly<br\/>occupied us were the question of reproduction, the lines of development<br\/>of feminist discourse, which we were able to trace within the texts<br\/>we read, and the question of how it is possible to create a positive image of the<br\/>future and still remain true to the problems of the present<br\/>.<br\/>We were particularly pleased that the participants were able to contribute their<br\/>perspectives and readings from different academic and non-academic<br\/>fields.    <\/p>\n\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>&#8220;Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival&#8221; (Director: Fabrizio Terranova, 2016, 83 minutes) is the title of the documentary film that we showed as part of the Cyborg and Friends seminar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter semester 2019\/ 2020 &#8211; Lena Panten and Liane Schlumberger The starting point of the seminar was the question of how the telling ofnew stories can change our perspectives on the future and thus makeother futures&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_starter_page_template":"","_wpcom_template_layout_category":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20704","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asta-lueneburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asta-lueneburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asta-lueneburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asta-lueneburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asta-lueneburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asta-lueneburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asta-lueneburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}