01 Looking Forward/Looking Back: The Future

In this first episode, presented by Meri Fatin, Xia Jia, Elizabeth Tan and Matthew Chrulew discuss “The Future”, focussing on science fiction; the subgenre of porridge scifi; the concept of extinction; the human, nonhuman, and posthuman; and the idea of the future having already arrived. The four episodes in this series were recorded in October, 2017, at Creative Conversations: Looking Forward/Looking Back. This public event was held at the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle, Western Australia. Over the course of the day four panels discussed problems of positioning, distance and perspective in relation to the past and the future. Proceedings on the day were recorded by David Le May from ABC Radio National. Music by Patrick Liddell and Matthew Liam Nicholson.