Beginning our course's voyage on New Atlantis Island, invented by Renaissance philosopher and politician Francis Bacon as a piece of Science Fiction we then directly go to England at the end of the 19th century, where a scientist with a passion for travelling has constructed a Time Machine to visit very future (pseudo-)human cultures, suffering from some rather unpleasent effects of the evolution. After this discovery we will stay at London but change the epoch arriving after the Age of Witspell roundabout 3700 A.D. when a famous orator called Plato explains to his fellow citizens the nature of a culture long ago and nearly lost (ours!) which ended in a catastrophe and can be only reconstructed by bits of archaic textual fragments which eventually could bring forth a curiously mutilated understanding of contemporary times. Books to be read BEFORE the course begins: H.G.Wells , The Time Machine, Penguin 2005 Peter Ackroyd, The Plato Papers, Anchor Books, 2001 |
