Frederico Campagna: Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons On Escaping History Shannon Ebner and the work of speculative

and the work of speculative fiction writers Samuel Delany and Octavia Butler as they decenter and destabilize the human

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with its many conflicting histories and geographies of struggle elided and forgotten

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Frederico Campagna: Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons On Escaping History Shannon Ebner and the work of speculativeBloomsbury Academic, 2025, softcover, 392 pages, 15. 6 x 23. 2 cm What can survive the end of the world? In Otherworlds, philosopher Federico Campagna constructs extraordinary stories and alternative histories of the Mediterranean, nexus of migrations and odysseys, ruins and romances, to depict a world in which the imagination is the only engine of survival. Chapter by chapter, Campagna chronicles the existential challenges posed by history and the