#thedispossessed โ Public Fediverse posts
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๐ช๐ฎ๐๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ด๐ฒ๐ฟ: "๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฏ๐ ๐จ๐ฟ๐๐๐น๐ฎ ๐. ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ถ๐ป -
๐ฏ-๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐:
Mytho-poetic
Knotty
Humanist๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ฃ๐ผ๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ:
Do communities in any way grow richer from conflict? What path to utopia?
#bookreview #bookrecommendations #readinglist #literature #books #book #reading #bookstagram #frictionalreading #3words #ursulakleguin #thedispossessed #fantasy #fiction #utopia
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๐ช๐ฎ๐๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ด๐ฒ๐ฟ: "๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฏ๐ ๐จ๐ฟ๐๐๐น๐ฎ ๐. ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ถ๐ป -
๐ฏ-๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐:
Mytho-poetic
Knotty
Humanist๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ฃ๐ผ๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ:
Do communities in any way grow richer from conflict? What path to utopia?
#bookreview #bookrecommendations #readinglist #literature #books #book #reading #bookstagram #frictionalreading #3words #ursulakleguin #thedispossessed #fantasy #fiction #utopia
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just (& finally) finished Ursula K. LeGuinโs The Dispossessed - wow
I have this eminently sated but not overstuffed feeling in my mind now. as though it will give me a lot of nutritive thinking for a long time
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just (& finally) finished Ursula K. LeGuinโs The Dispossessed - wow
I have this eminently sated but not overstuffed feeling in my mind now. as though it will give me a lot of nutritive thinking for a long time
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New life update #blog post!!
I'm in a transitional period in my life, moving from #Germany to #Spain, and I wanted to express more deeply what the immigration experience means for me. As well as what home means.
I've structured my post to mirror #Virgil's #Aeneid, taking inspiration also from #UrsulaLeGuin's #TheDispossessed and #Dante's #inferno.
The journey I want to talk about involves geographical displacement, but the real distance travelled takes place inside.
https://sofiabelen.github.io/blog/my-journey-home-is-to-a-place-ive-never-been/
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@esthi Ich bin bei 44%, das wird nicht "besser".
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@esthi Ich bin bei 44%, das wird nicht "besser".
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I just finished The Dispossessed and it hit me at a particular moment of my life of transition (and of coming back home), so I ended up writing a longer piece unpacking some of the ideas. I adored the book, it's so rich in ideas, and the writing is just exquisite. I loved her use of metaphors and symbolism, while still feeling very down-to-earth (no pun intended) and readable.
https://sofiabelen.github.io/literature/the-dispossessed/
#TheDispossessed #UrsulaLeGuin #SciFi #BookReview #ScienceFiction
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I just finished The Dispossessed and it hit me at a particular moment of my life of transition (and of coming back home), so I ended up writing a longer piece unpacking some of the ideas. I adored the book, it's so rich in ideas, and the writing is just exquisite. I loved her use of metaphors and symbolism, while still feeling very down-to-earth (no pun intended) and readable.
https://sofiabelen.github.io/literature/the-dispossessed/
#TheDispossessed #UrsulaLeGuin #SciFi #BookReview #ScienceFiction
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"No, brother, I'm sane. What drives people crazy is trying to live outside reality. Reality is terrible. It can kill you. Given time, it certainly will kill you. The reality is pain--you said that! But it's the lies, the evasions of reality, that drive you crazy. It's the lies that make you want to kill yourself." - Bedap, Shevek's childhood friend.
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"No, brother, I'm sane. What drives people crazy is trying to live outside reality. Reality is terrible. It can kill you. Given time, it certainly will kill you. The reality is pain--you said that! But it's the lies, the evasions of reality, that drive you crazy. It's the lies that make you want to kill yourself." - Bedap, Shevek's childhood friend.
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Leaving you all with this essay about the #ExistentialDread a lot of us are experiencing, and how one person found hope through #SolarPunk! (And I am another one of those people!)
It's been a record-breaking #SolarPunkSunday, and a great way to celebrate a year of #Resiliency, #SharingInformation, #Rewilding, #Mending, #Gardening, and building the foundation for the future we all need! I'll re-post a few articles from yesterday, and then will call it a Solar Punk day! ! A special thanks to @BrambleBearGrrrauwling and @MaQuest !
A Future Dream - How solarpunk helped alleviate my existential dread.
Solarpunk pushes against the bleak Blade Runner future of cyberpunk that centers urban dystopias dominated by corporations and technology. Solarpunk imagines an #inclusive, #sustainable, possible future, where #renewable #technology meets #ecological #enlightenment.
by Sage Agee, Art by Yuumei, Spring 2023
"LIKE MANY OF MY GENERATION, I have known dread nearly my entire life. In fifth grade, I was assigned a research paper on the topic of my choice. I had begun to spend my weekends with my dad, hanging out at coffee shops in downtown Salem, Oregon, and chatting with adults about the news. We had just witnessed the 9/11 attacks, and the adults in my life seemed to be waking up to global issues, their fear palpable even to a young child.
"This was not long after the release of #AnInconvenientTruth, and I decided to interview my dadโs friends about #ClimateChange and their predictions for the future. When I turned in the finished paper, which detailed mass extinctions and natural disasters, my teacher, Mrs. Stark, wouldnโt accept it. She didnโt believe in climate change, she said, and I needed to study a different topic.
"After that, I felt myself slipping from endless curiosity about the world into a mindset where I had to prepare for the worst, and trust no one. This helped me create the shield I needed to get through adolescence. By then, I knew that my gender and sexuality didnโt align with typical gender roles, but I kept that secret close to my tape-bound chest.
"Solarpunk represents a movement from todayโs reality toward a gritty, pragmatic, better future.
"Before my parents divorced, we went to an Evangelical church every Sunday, and I learned to pray each night before bed. These prayers became a place for me to put every bad thought I would have during the day, to pass them along to God. I had already developed a deep shame for my thoughts of being more boyish, and I prayed for these thoughts to end, just as I prayed for an end to natural disasters. I prayed for a better girl-mask. I prayed for a better world. My compulsive thinking followed me into my teenage years. In the ninth grade, I started an environmental justice group, hosting letter-writing parties and taking part in local protests at the Oregon Capitol, but when anti-green legislation passed into law, or when images emerged detailing islands of garbage in the ocean, I blamed myself for not doing more.
"This kind of thinking kept me from coming out as transgender. Every time I had an intrusive thought about growing facial hair and passing as a boy, my self-blame returned. Maybe I wasnโt trying hard enough to be a girl; maybe I just needed to date boys and straighten my hair and shave my legs and wear makeup; maybe too, I needed to do more about the environment, protest more, organize more, do something more. I kept making up versions of myself. I only talked about environmental justice around my dadโs liberal friends. I only downplayed my femininity around my queer friends.
artwork depicting someone reading in a futuristic setting"The one place where I escaped from this constant masking and shifting was in the books I consumed. At 17, I read #UrsulaLeGuinโs series of novels, the #HainishCycle, for the first time. I was instantly drawn into the worlds she created, where gender was fluid, as in #TheLeftHandOfDarkness, where some worlds grappled with climate disaster just as some had overcome it, as in #TheDispossessed. The way she experimented with the utopian, which always included queerness and dissolved gender roles, was like nothing I had read or experienced.
"When I allowed myself to fall into these fictions, my dread would turn over into an almost hopeful outlook. I understood this as fantasy, though, and never considered taking what I had read in LeGuin into my real life. Instead, I spent years dreaming of alternate realities, where I hadnโt been born into a doomed world. To cope with the real world, I would make lists of everything I would need to survive a catastrophe, and I taught myself #SurvivalSkills, like how to build a friction fire in the backyard."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/PHXNH#SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #HopePunk #BuildingCommunity #Resiliency
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Leaving you all with this essay about the #ExistentialDread a lot of us are experiencing, and how one person found hope through #SolarPunk! (And I am another one of those people!)
It's been a record-breaking #SolarPunkSunday, and a great way to celebrate a year of #Resiliency, #SharingInformation, #Rewilding, #Mending, #Gardening, and building the foundation for the future we all need! I'll re-post a few articles from yesterday, and then will call it a Solar Punk day! ! A special thanks to @BrambleBearGrrrauwling and @MaQuest !
A Future Dream - How solarpunk helped alleviate my existential dread.
Solarpunk pushes against the bleak Blade Runner future of cyberpunk that centers urban dystopias dominated by corporations and technology. Solarpunk imagines an #inclusive, #sustainable, possible future, where #renewable #technology meets #ecological #enlightenment.
by Sage Agee, Art by Yuumei, Spring 2023
"LIKE MANY OF MY GENERATION, I have known dread nearly my entire life. In fifth grade, I was assigned a research paper on the topic of my choice. I had begun to spend my weekends with my dad, hanging out at coffee shops in downtown Salem, Oregon, and chatting with adults about the news. We had just witnessed the 9/11 attacks, and the adults in my life seemed to be waking up to global issues, their fear palpable even to a young child.
"This was not long after the release of #AnInconvenientTruth, and I decided to interview my dadโs friends about #ClimateChange and their predictions for the future. When I turned in the finished paper, which detailed mass extinctions and natural disasters, my teacher, Mrs. Stark, wouldnโt accept it. She didnโt believe in climate change, she said, and I needed to study a different topic.
"After that, I felt myself slipping from endless curiosity about the world into a mindset where I had to prepare for the worst, and trust no one. This helped me create the shield I needed to get through adolescence. By then, I knew that my gender and sexuality didnโt align with typical gender roles, but I kept that secret close to my tape-bound chest.
"Solarpunk represents a movement from todayโs reality toward a gritty, pragmatic, better future.
"Before my parents divorced, we went to an Evangelical church every Sunday, and I learned to pray each night before bed. These prayers became a place for me to put every bad thought I would have during the day, to pass them along to God. I had already developed a deep shame for my thoughts of being more boyish, and I prayed for these thoughts to end, just as I prayed for an end to natural disasters. I prayed for a better girl-mask. I prayed for a better world. My compulsive thinking followed me into my teenage years. In the ninth grade, I started an environmental justice group, hosting letter-writing parties and taking part in local protests at the Oregon Capitol, but when anti-green legislation passed into law, or when images emerged detailing islands of garbage in the ocean, I blamed myself for not doing more.
"This kind of thinking kept me from coming out as transgender. Every time I had an intrusive thought about growing facial hair and passing as a boy, my self-blame returned. Maybe I wasnโt trying hard enough to be a girl; maybe I just needed to date boys and straighten my hair and shave my legs and wear makeup; maybe too, I needed to do more about the environment, protest more, organize more, do something more. I kept making up versions of myself. I only talked about environmental justice around my dadโs liberal friends. I only downplayed my femininity around my queer friends.
artwork depicting someone reading in a futuristic setting"The one place where I escaped from this constant masking and shifting was in the books I consumed. At 17, I read #UrsulaLeGuinโs series of novels, the #HainishCycle, for the first time. I was instantly drawn into the worlds she created, where gender was fluid, as in #TheLeftHandOfDarkness, where some worlds grappled with climate disaster just as some had overcome it, as in #TheDispossessed. The way she experimented with the utopian, which always included queerness and dissolved gender roles, was like nothing I had read or experienced.
"When I allowed myself to fall into these fictions, my dread would turn over into an almost hopeful outlook. I understood this as fantasy, though, and never considered taking what I had read in LeGuin into my real life. Instead, I spent years dreaming of alternate realities, where I hadnโt been born into a doomed world. To cope with the real world, I would make lists of everything I would need to survive a catastrophe, and I taught myself #SurvivalSkills, like how to build a friction fire in the backyard."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/PHXNH#SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #HopePunk #BuildingCommunity #Resiliency
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"The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible."
https://anarwiki.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed_(Ursula_K._Le_Guin)
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"The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible."
https://anarwiki.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed_(Ursula_K._Le_Guin)
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Change is Freedom, Change is Life
You donโt get transformative change by building according to the incentives of the dominant system. A post inspired by rereading Ursula K. Le Guinโs The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia as part of the Utopia Reading Group in #Oxford โThereโs a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.โโ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed Most people choose the easy path: they find [โฆ]https://hamishcampbell.com/change-is-freedom-change-is-life/
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๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐'๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด: "๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ" ๐ฏ๐ ๐จ๐ฟ๐๐๐น๐ฎ ๐. ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ถ๐ป -
Le Guin's "ambiguous utopia" promises some fascinating challenges in isolation & communication, capitalism & community, freedom & the State. An under-read work to provoke real discussion on our social and personal goals.
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #theater #ursulakleguin #thedispossessed #scifi #sf #sciencefiction #utopia
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In EN, the word "work" comes from "do." In FR, "torture." Think about the difference in perspective. I do. It comes up as a US leftist in France, trying to communicate my ideas. In Pravic (I recently finished The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin), same word for work & play. In Ecotopia, the protagonist remarked on how work and play seemed to go hand in hand. Think on that. It's a koan, maybe.
#leftism #ursulakleguin #buddhism #english #french #etymology #koan #thedispossessed #ecotopia #zen -
In EN, the word "work" comes from "do." In FR, "torture." Think about the difference in perspective. I do. It comes up as a US leftist in France, trying to communicate my ideas. In Pravic (I recently finished The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin), same word for work & play. In Ecotopia, the protagonist remarked on how work and play seemed to go hand in hand. Think on that. It's a koan, maybe.
#leftism #ursulakleguin #buddhism #english #french #etymology #koan #thedispossessed #ecotopia #zen -
I'm an anarchist. And with that I have faith that in the right circumstances, people are generous & solidaire & good & helpful & everything. But oh god damn do I have moments where I'm like "why are you all this oblivious?" I guess it's just not the right circumstances, but come ooooonnnnnn. Help a guy out
Anyway, reading The Dispossessed is this year's Ecotopia for me. It's my little hopium book
#anarchism #leftism #misanthropy #hope #idealist #thedispossessed #ursulakleguin #ecotopia #hopium -
I'm an anarchist. And with that I have faith that in the right circumstances, people are generous & solidaire & good & helpful & everything. But oh god damn do I have moments where I'm like "why are you all this oblivious?" I guess it's just not the right circumstances, but come ooooonnnnnn. Help a guy out
Anyway, reading The Dispossessed is this year's Ecotopia for me. It's my little hopium book
#anarchism #leftism #misanthropy #hope #idealist #thedispossessed #ursulakleguin #ecotopia #hopium -
Having finally finished *The Dispossessed* I can say it was solidly Le Guin. She had a very particular voice, and in this work it's there at the centre . There's always pain in her voice, the real pain of living. Nothing is ever simple, and that makes her fiction believable, and like life.
I wont try to analyze her thoughts on society, as that would take me into the realm of politics. I've decided not to indulge in that online. For me it's just art, real art.
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I'm reading *The Dispossessed* for the first time. Yeah, I know I'm late to the party...
It's a set of very weird worlds she's portraying in this book. I find the culture on Anarres revolting in it's insularity, and groupthink. At the same time the misogynism expressed by the people on Urras is just as disgusting.
It really isn't a clear cut ideal, any of them. Classic Le Guin making things more complex than you first imagine. She was good.
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I'm reading *The Dispossessed* for the first time. Yeah, I know I'm late to the party...
It's a set of very weird worlds she's portraying in this book. I find the culture on Anarres revolting in it's insularity, and groupthink. At the same time the misogynism expressed by the people on Urras is just as disgusting.
It really isn't a clear cut ideal, any of them. Classic Le Guin making things more complex than you first imagine. She was good.
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[Masters Thesis] #Degrowth Aesthetics in #Solarpunk, #TheDispossessed, & #OccupyWallStreet
by Andrew Gabriel Rose, 2024
"This thesis identifies and explores aesthetic strategies in art, literature, and social activism that inspire the desirability of degrowth economic paradigms in post-industrial imaginaries. These imaginaries, composed of cultural images, narratives, and representations, shape collective perceptions, expectations, and understandings. Drawing examples from The Dispossessed by #UrsulaKLeGuin, stylistic elements from the emerging solarpunk genre, and practical demonstrations of direct action achieved by the Occupy Wall Street movement, the study explores how artists, scholars, and activists can present beautiful or compelling alternatives to dominant narratives of growth and consumption using targeted aesthetic strategies. A comparative analysis of approaches found in these examples highlights the competitiveness of narratives and practices that prioritize #sustainability, #equity, and well-being over the prevailing logic of endless economic expansion. By synthesizing insights from these diverse sources, this study seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of how aesthetics can be leveraged to promote degrowth as a viable and desirable economic alternative. Additionally, it seeks to inform future interventions by providing concrete examples and strategies for promoting degrowth in ways that resonate with diverse audiences, ultimately helping a sustainable and equitable society become more imaginable."
https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/theses/mg74qv204
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[Masters Thesis] #Degrowth Aesthetics in #Solarpunk, #TheDispossessed, & #OccupyWallStreet
by Andrew Gabriel Rose, 2024
"This thesis identifies and explores aesthetic strategies in art, literature, and social activism that inspire the desirability of degrowth economic paradigms in post-industrial imaginaries. These imaginaries, composed of cultural images, narratives, and representations, shape collective perceptions, expectations, and understandings. Drawing examples from The Dispossessed by #UrsulaKLeGuin, stylistic elements from the emerging solarpunk genre, and practical demonstrations of direct action achieved by the Occupy Wall Street movement, the study explores how artists, scholars, and activists can present beautiful or compelling alternatives to dominant narratives of growth and consumption using targeted aesthetic strategies. A comparative analysis of approaches found in these examples highlights the competitiveness of narratives and practices that prioritize #sustainability, #equity, and well-being over the prevailing logic of endless economic expansion. By synthesizing insights from these diverse sources, this study seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of how aesthetics can be leveraged to promote degrowth as a viable and desirable economic alternative. Additionally, it seeks to inform future interventions by providing concrete examples and strategies for promoting degrowth in ways that resonate with diverse audiences, ultimately helping a sustainable and equitable society become more imaginable."
https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/theses/mg74qv204
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โAnarchismโs principal target is the authoritarian state (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories.โ
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@kristiedegaris Is this the spaceport on Anarres? #TheDispossessed
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Nine hours of train rides yesterday and today - finally some time to advance in reading the absolutely marvellous #TheDispossessed by #UrsulaKLeGuin! (Can't believe this sat on my to-read list for more than 6 years, I missed out so much!)
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I remember having a discussion with someone on this site about whether #UrsulaLeGuin was a good "gateway" #ScienceFiction author for a non-fan. That person came close to saying #TheDispossessed wasn't SF, and I wish I had this essay link at that time. https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology
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All I know is that whoever translates #TheDispossessed into another medium had better love the book as much as I do and be an absolute virtuoso in their target medium. https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/ursula-k-le-guin-the-dispossessed-tv-series-1235081211/
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I picked up and started reading #TheDispossessed by #UrsulaKLeGuin for the first time in a couple decades. It's even better than I remember, and my reading of #CorneliusCastoriadis and his cohort has enhanced the experience tremendously.
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Finally read The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin! Any recommendations for what I should #read next? (of course, the rest of Le Guin's works) #bookstodon #books #SFF #LeGuin #SciFi #reading #scienceFiction #theDispossessed
