ABSTRACT
This final and conclusory chapter of this monograph consolidates how these works of SF propose new forms of radical humanism or “planetarities” that exemplify the creativity, magnitude, and political value of those formulated by critical theory. SF’s planetary perspective offers new insight into the operation of racial, gender, and sexual formations on Earth. The book therefore concludes by suggesting that the new forms of humanisms or “planetarities” visible in these works of SF radicalise those put forward by critical theory. The value of these fictional inquiries into humanisms that are grounded in gender and racial critique is also their ability to reconcile even the contradictory elements in Butler, Braidotti, Spivak, and Gilroy’s theoretical work without “resolving” them into simplified readings. The chosen works of SF can elucidate what theory still struggles to describe, and what the utopian claims of the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights long to engender: a crosshatched access to a utopianism that generates “a version of equality that travels”.
