Episode 14 – Introduction: On Punking Speculative Fiction
Sean Guynes-Vishniac – Special Edition Editor Punk, today, is an easily appropriated symbol that signals cultural frustration, youth angst, and a generalized fuck-the-man attitude, at the same time that it remains a lively anti-capitalist, anti-state subculture. The dialectical tensions of punk—moving between resistance to and reification of mainstream social forces—are especially obvious in sf,…