Restating the aim
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28 May 2010
- Create a website that shows the breadth and complexity of the genre
- Foster a climate of innovation, collaboration and creativity
- Encourage the awareness of speculative industries
- Be a hub of connectivity
Homo sapiens is a creature that has wondered at the nature of the universe, investigated the microscopic, probed the telescopic, conjectured about meaning and examined the social. Speculating, like politics and spirituality, is one of the most fundamental of all human ways of being. Almost every human venture requires, to some degree, the ability to juggle concepts and to consider the consequences of fusing two or more of those concepts into a theory for further action. Whether it is contemplating rocket science or simply doing the week's shopping, speculating is something that we humans do as a matter of course. Consequently almost everything carries with it a speculative trace.
All narratives are multi-dimensional. For example, a work of fiction can be, simultaneously, speculative, political and religious. All things have risen from the human psyche and manifest themselves in a variety of guises. They have borrowed from, married into, been dispersed and conquered by the flow of cultures and dominant paradigms. Nothing stands alone; everything has connections, everything has hereditary and ancestral links to something else.
That area of activity where speculative traces can be found is the specusphere.
The Specusphere was originally planned to target the whole of the specusphere. Thus our articles can range in scope from interviews with authors to chats with sound technicians on a vampire movie set; instead of fantasy magic we could investigate witchcraft or miracles; instead of spaceships and aliens we could inspect developments in science and technology; instead of shock and horror we could look at psychology and the paranormal.
The Specusphere could incorporate a variety of creative industries, including visual and performing arts, film and television and computer games. Its content would be adaptable to hard and soft science, social theory, literary review and indigenous mythology.
We are interested in the imagination. If you are too, why not come and help us achieve our goals.
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