Birds, Bears, and Writing Humanimal Futures
An Interview with Jeff VanderMeer at the 75th Science Fiction WorldCon, Helsinki, August 2017
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The following interview questions were inspired by the 75th Science Fiction WorldCon’s Academic Track, entitled “100 Years of Estrangement”, and my own PhD research. The conference, as the title itself suggests, was meant not only to revisit but also to revise Schlovsky’s “ostranenie” with respect to its use in the field of fantastic literatures before and after Darko Suvin’s coinage of “cognitive estrangement”, differentiating between science fiction and fantasy. Consequently, a great portion of the academic discussion revolved around the question of genre; this is relevant to the position of New Weird within fantastic literatures and the interpretation of Jeff VanderMeer’s fiction, whose work has been closely related to New Weird, and, most recently, critical posthumanism.
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