ABSTRACT
The greening of the technosciences and of the nation state comprises a key aspect of Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital trilogy, which provides a prime example of the utopianism of the way from within the field of contemporary science fiction. The utopianism of the way would advance new conceptions of the good life along the lines envisaged by Kate Soper, Lyn Thomas and Martin Ryle under the rubric of "alternative hedonism". Ecological thinking, entailing the recognition of boundless interconnectivity as a precondition for the existence of all living entities, is nonetheless far older. Timothy Morton discovered a particularly expansive variant of ecological thinking among Buddhists in Tibet, for example, while Deborah Bird Rose found another among indigenous Australians. The emergence of modern ecological thinking during the Romantic period gave rise to new ways of imagining the future, both utopian and dystopian.
