Comics and the expansion of our ecological imagination

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Comics and the expansion of our ecological imagination

Speakers: Dani Friedrich

Date: Wednesday June 8th, 2022

Mainstream superhero comics have for the most part been reluctant to propose radical departures from the status quo. Following the need to publish one or two issues per month, our caped crusaders have avoided using their fantastical powers to reinvent their worlds from the ground up. However, the engagement between popular culture and our imaginations always has the potential to produce a surplus that goes beyond whatever is presented to us as a given. How do superheroes refusing to fight monsters, villains that threaten to wipe out humanity in the name of nature, and living islands open up possibilities to create different eco-futures?

Time: 9 AM EST