With Margaret Atwood and Antonio Nobre
Host: Anabela Mota Ribeiro is a writer, journalist and cultural promoter; she is also a scholar on Machado de Assis
The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood once wrote: “Ustopia is a world I made up by combining utopia and dystopia – the imagined perfect society and its opposite – because, in my view, each contains a latent version of the other.” If so, how is it possible to differentiate dystopian from utopian? To answer that question, at this panel, Margaret Atwood talks with Antonio Nobre, a scientist who has developed some of the main studies on threats against Brazilian forests. Despite the frightening data, Nobre continues to fight for a “Utopian Matrix”. What can the best of the literary imagination learn from plant teachings to keep “dystopian latency” at bay?
Margaret Atwood
Antonio Donato Nobre