Night_sky

FicSci 02

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• Publisher: African Minds
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781928502937
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Index: Social Sciences

What is science communication? This collection proposes that it can be creative writing aimed at the heart, rather than information directed to the mind. FicSci playfully subverts the term 'science fiction' to offer an experimental process that explores the limits of imagination in relation to scientific possibility (and vice versa). FicSci is an experiment in hybridized creative practice that induces new forms of knowledge-making between the hard sciences and the social world. This collection offers writing that emerged from an encounter that brought twelve creative writers together with an astronomer. The presented science invited contemplation of scientific aspects of the night sky, in specific X-ray binary stars, extra-galactic sources, and magellanic clouds. The creative writings that emerged are attendant to the wider potentialities of scientific thought, and reveal how methodologies for storying the scientific encounter are creatively multi-form.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 0 Three Provocations and a Tweet by Tana Joseph
• 1 N//N; D//D by Maneo Mohale
• 2 Extragalactic Interruption by Yolanda Mbelle
• 3 Lost and Found by Alicia English
• 4 The Dark Heart of Everything by Wamuwi Mbao
• 5 Exchanges Unwritten and Unknown by Eduardo Cachucho
• 6 Three Poems by Mathapelo Mofokeng
• 7 Sky Counsel by memory’s daughter
• 8 UMakhwezana by Peggy Tunyiswa
• 9 Four Poems by Melissa Sussens
• 10 Planisphærium Coeleste by Skye Ayla Mallac
• 11 Look Up! Don’t Look Up! by Mehita Iqani
• 12 Forethought of Grief by Sarah Uheida
• 13 The Supernova Formula by Mzwakhe Xulu
• 14 Africatown by Shamin Chibba
• 15 As Above, So Below: Outroductory Reflections on FicSci 02 by Wamuwi Mbao and Mehita Iqani
• Biographies
• Back Cover