Love, Fear, Entanglement: A Speculative Exploration of Parasitism

This final reading group session of the series opens a discursive space of phantasmagoria—perhaps induced by the cumulative microbial poisoning of the preceding sessions. Led by speculative fiction author Regina Kanyu Wang, winner of the Xingyun Award and Hugo Award finalist, this reading and writing workshop examines the coexistence and entanglement of speculation and reality, love and fear.


This final reading group session of the series opens a discursive space of phantasmagoria—perhaps induced by the cumulative microbial poisoning of the previous sessions. Drawing on Daoist philosophy, biological research, and microbiology, Wang explores non-binary perspectives that serve as entry points into speculative future scenarios, blurring the boundaries between symbiosis and parasitism, biosphere and digital sphere.

Based on three short science fiction stories/essays—including Wang’s “A Cyber-Cuscuta Manifesto” (2020), Octavia E. Butler’s “Blood Child” (1995), and Scott F. Gilbert’s “As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be” (2024)—the workshop invites participants on an intersubjective journey of speculative writing, imagining diverse forms of coexistence and creating new biological and affective entanglements.


As part of the reading group "L is for the Way You Look at Me"

Registration via opencalls.discourse@hkw.de until November 1st

The registration deadline has passed.

Angie Stardust Foyer
In English

Free admission