Critical pedagogy emphasizes the inseparability of politics and education (Freire, 2012; hooks, 1994). However, many strands of critical pedagogy are focused on ideological critique of elements of Modernity such as racism, sexism, colonialism, extractivism, and domination which are treated as unintended errors or ancillary conditions. That is, critical pedagogy tacitly suggests that the features in need of correcting are aberrations of the present moment, rather than their very conceptual and material architecture (Ellensworth, 1989; Grande, 2004; Mignolo & Walsh, 2018). Focusing on works of speculative fiction that critique, counter, and reconstruct the version of humanism that organizes liberal democratic politic, we theorize science and speculative fiction as engendering an alternative cultural politics, creating a space of creative inquiry and pedagogical provocation that facilitates and enables world building (Haraway, 2016), alternative onto-epistemic orientations, and what Wynter & McKittrick (2015) might deem novel praxes of being human.