4. Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay – Religion and the Politics of Future Fiction

Our guest in this episode of the podcast is Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, an Associate Professor of Global Cultural Studies at the University of Oslo. Bodhisattva is a specialist in global future fiction and the director of the research projects CoFutures and Science Fictionality. In our conversation, he explains to us how myth and politics intersect in works of science fiction across the world. You can read more about this topic in his article On the Mythologerm: Kalpavigyan and the Question of Imperial Science (jstor.org) Text alternative for the episode.