Speculation — faith — hope
These are cultural artifacts created texts by students in the undergraduate Comparative Literature course Back to the Future, as well as by graduate students in the CLC course The Future. Both courses, taught by Professor Felipe Quetzalcoatl Quintanilla, invited the creators here included, to think about how the “the future” has been imagined in ancient texts and in ever more contemporary and global visions of “things to come”. The students thus came to consider canonical spiritual and philosophical texts that help us imagine “time” itself, as well as humanity’s place within the cosmos, as tinkerers, voyagers, exiles, builders of utopia, or destroyers of worlds.
A Dystopia in Disguise
By Elsie Sheppard
The COVID-19 pandemic progressed faster than anyone anticipated. The world has begun to shut down during these devastating times. Borders closed, hospitals overwhelmed, struggling supply chains, and scared citizens are a result of governments’ drastic measures to flatten the Coronavirus curve.
Paradise Found: Confessions of a Light Bringer
By James Hogg
Before we begin…
Let’s establish some ground rules. The author of this story was raised in the United Church, a Protestant branch of Christianity. As such, the author would claim to have some understanding of Christianity, as well as claims the right to provide analysis and criticism of the faith and its institutions.
Greetings, reader!
By James Hogg
As I am writing this from the year two-thousand and sixty, and it is intended to be read in twenty-one hundred, we can safely assume that I am statistically dead.