{"id":2655,"date":"2020-01-28T06:07:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T06:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/?p=2655&lang=en"},"modified":"2022-10-25T08:03:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T08:03:37","slug":"guest-lecture-by-johannes-d-kandiski-getting-big-things-done-the-nightmare-of-engineered-futures-in-contemporary-sci-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usvl.sav.sk\/wp\/?p=2655&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Guest lecture by Johannes D. Kandiski: Getting Big Things Done. The Nightmare of Engineered Futures in Contemporary Sci-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Institute of World Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences invites you to the guest lecture by Johannes D. Kaminski entitled Getting Big Things Done: The Nightmare of Engineered Futures in Contemporary Sci-Fi.<\/em><\/p>\n

WHEN:<\/strong> 5th February (Wednesday) 2020, 2:00pm<\/p>\n

WHERE:<\/strong> Institute of World Literature SAS, D\u00fabravsk\u00e1 cesta 9, Bratislava
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Technological innovations are not just the cause of the climate crisis, but will also become its solution. This popular idea is explored in contemporary sci-fi novels. As the planet is left in ruins, humanity will thrust itself into Space Age and radically adapt to new circumstances – including new kinds of social bonding and even the change of phenotypical appearance. The phantasma of successful top-down leadership for the further development of the homo sapiens<\/em> features prominently in Liu Cixin’s Trisolaris<\/em>-trilogy (2005-2010) and Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves<\/em> (2015). I read these texts as powerful eulogies of technocratic solutions, as we face unprecedented challenge with regard to our livelihoods. Possibly, the novels‘ authoritarian ethics portray the future of international governance accurately, as resource scarcity will not necessarily lead to more sustainable lifeforms, as many eco-critics maintain, but to a competitive race to secure privilege and comfort.<\/p>\n

Selected publications
\n<\/strong>Edited volume<\/span>: Erotic Literature in Translation and Adaption<\/em>, Oxford: Legenda 2018.
\nArticles<\/span>: \u201cPunctuation, Exclamation and Tears: The Sorrows of Young Werther<\/em> in Japanese and Chinese Translation (1889-1922).\u201d Comparative Critical Studies <\/em>14.1 (2017), 29-48.
\n\u201cToward a Maoist Dream of the Red Chamber<\/em>: Or, How Baoyu and Daiyu Became Rebels Against Feudalism.\u201d Journal of Chinese Humanities<\/em> 3 (2017), 177-
\n\u201cThe Euphemistic Gaze: Observing Destruction Through Goethe\u2019s Eyes.\u201d Monatshefte<\/em> 108.2 (2016), 171-184.
\nCurrently in review<\/span>: \u201cFrom the Breakdown of Social Norms to Improvised Justice, as Imagined in Contemporary Preparedness Novels,\u201d Journal of American Studie<\/em>s [forthcoming].<\/p>\n

Short biography of Johannes D. Kaminski
\n<\/strong>2010:<\/strong> PhD in Oxford with a dissertation on Goethe’s novels
\n2012-2015: <\/strong>British Academy PD Fellow at Cambridge
\n2015-2017:<\/strong> Academia Sinica PD Fellow in Taipei, Taiwan
\n2018-2020: <\/strong>Marie Curie PD Fellow at University of Vienna, Project: „Anthropocene World Literature“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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