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Thanks Maja! I like your suggestion about bringing in more examples of seamlessness for these projects...I'll think up some good ones. Very interested to learn more about what you're thinking with "re-emphasizing chaos," does this mean a sort of reclamation project to you? Direct action and disruption of these sites? Something else entirely? I do wonder what it might mean to bring chaos to projects like these. It's definitely something to think about...

As for your second question, I definitely think fiction and worldbuilding have potential--I'm skeptical of whether it's *liberating* potential, though. Or maybe I'm skeptical of how easy it might be to access its liberating power. I think a lot about Kodwo Eshun's "Further Considerations on Afrofuturism" and Mark Fisher's "SF Capital" when it comes to science fiction's recuperation by the military industrial complex. Speculative fiction has some obvious sway if it can help validate multibillion dollar projects like these planned cities...for it to work the other way, the "opposite perspective" as you put it, then I wonder what the fiction's relationship to cultural and financial capital might need to be.