Wild Futures

Speculative, sci-fi, imaginative, literary

There are so many great things on Substack these days.

Gosh, I’m not a very literary person. I don’t read a lot of fiction. — I’m trying to read more these days. — But as I try to think about humans going forward, The Future starts to be an essential category of thought.

By definition, we can’t write about the future as an empirical thing. It only exists in speculation, science fiction, predictions, and imaginative or literary visions.

Elle Griffin

’s publication

The Elysian

is well worth exploring for its utopian thematics. Here is her recent post on writing philosophy and why she is actively seeking wild ideas and possibilities.

I also love her collaborative spirit. Whatever human future there is going to be, my gut tells me it’s going to be collaborative over competitive.

Please come up with wildly speculative futures

From the website Babylonia, “We who didn’t know where we were going…” (Orig. in Greek “Εμείς που δεν ξέραμε που πάμε…”)