Abstract
Hong Kong is ripe with speculative potentials but is depicted mainly as cyberpunk. To think beyond this dystopian imagination moves laterally between the city conceived as a living science fiction and virtual worlds containing potential ingredients for alternative Hong Kong cofutures. Speculative Hong Kong emerges from the cross-pollinations of those worlds. In this chapter, Euan Auld and Casper Bruun Jensen activate Ken Liu’s silkpunk to characterize Hong Kong activism as ephemeral tactics oriented to keeping cofutures open. They deploy Kim Stanley Robinson’s alternative history as an experimental tool with which to invent speculative propositions and cosmopolitical pathways for a Hong Kong that does not yet exist. Copyright © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay; individual chapters, the contributors.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Routledge handbook of CoFuturisms |
| Editors | Taryne Jade TAYLOR, Isiah LAVENDER III, Grace L. DILLON, Bodhisattva CHATTOPADHYAY |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Pages | 469-484 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780429317828 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780367330613, 9781032557649 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2024 |