Biofiction

Biofiction

Biofiction is designed to support readers who wish to envision and pattern a living future. Biofiction narratives[1] are new stories[2] that frame and construct actionable problems that threaten the living future; speculate on biologically grounded, practical solutions that readers can adopt, adapt, or respond to; and/or craft responses to the looming sixth extinction[3]. Authors may feature such strategies as habitat restoration[4] and integration[5], and readers may seek grassroots, localist[6] solutions to challenges that defy centralized responses. While works of biofiction may be creative in terms of literary or graphic features, they are generally conventional with respect to structure and format and thus accessible to biologically-literate readers.

As a genre intended to support life, biofiction is specifically designed to support humans in facing and reversing our destructive habits by:

  • envisioning and participating in the creation of a living future—that is, becoming actively pro-life-on-earth;
  • defining threats to the survival of evolved life in such a way as to enable the grassroots mitigation and elimination of local and ubiquitous threats;
  • drawing attention to pervasive processes by which the Anthropocene era[7] is propelling the body of life toward the sixth extinction[8];
  • assuming that it is not too late and that evolved life will continue as a result of human agency;
  • creating group-based solutions for professions[9][10], education systems, congregations, and so on; and/or
  • creating personal solutions with respect to housing, transit, and energy use.

Biofiction was established in 2019 by Dr. Beth Alderman. There may now be two publishers: Future Medicine and Amazon.

See also

References

  1. ^ Bruner, Jerome (2002). Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674010994.
  2. ^ New Story Hub from the Findhorn Foundation. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  3. ^ Kolbert, Elizabeth (2014). The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2014. ISBN 978-0805092998.
  4. ^ Alderman, Beth (2019). Pilgrim Minds. Ashland, OR: Future Medicine. ISBN 978-1732111059.
  5. ^ Alderman, Beth (2019). Aaron’s Legacy. Ashland, OR: Future Medicine. ISBN 978-1732111066.
  6. ^ What is Localism? The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  7. ^ The Great Acceleration. Welcome to the Anthropocene. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  8. ^ Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (5 May 2019). Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’, Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  9. ^ Emerging Medicine. Evolve Medicine. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  10. ^ Living Community Basics. The Living Building Paradigm. Retrieved 10 July 2019.

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