#ursulaleguin — Public Fediverse posts

Lo he aprendido de #ursulakleguin #ursulaleguin en #LaCostaMasLejana :

Pero si de nuevo hubiera un rey sobre todos nosotros, y ese rey buscara como en tiempos pasados el consejo de un mago, y si yo fuese ese mago, le diría: 《Mi señor, no hagáis nada porque sea justo, o loable, o noble; no hagáis nada porque os parezca bueno, haced tan solo lo que tengáis que hacer, y lo que no podríais hacer de ninguna otra manera》.

Lo he aprendido de #ursulakleguin #ursulaleguin en #LaCostaMasLejana :

Pero si de nuevo hubiera un rey sobre todos nosotros, y ese rey buscara como en tiempos pasados el consejo de un mago, y si yo fuese ese mago, le diría: 《Mi señor, no hagáis nada porque sea justo, o loable, o noble; no hagáis nada porque os parezca bueno, haced tan solo lo que tengáis que hacer, y lo que no podríais hacer de ninguna otra manera》.

Lo he aprendido de #ursulakleguin #ursulaleguin en #LaCostaMasLejana :

Pero si de nuevo hubiera un rey sobre todos nosotros, y ese rey buscara como en tiempos pasados el consejo de un mago, y si yo fuese ese mago, le diría: 《Mi señor, no hagáis nada porque sea justo, o loable, o noble; no hagáis nada porque os parezca bueno, haced tan solo lo que tengáis que hacer, y lo que no podríais hacer de ninguna otra manera》.

Lo he aprendido de #ursulakleguin #ursulaleguin en #LaCostaMasLejana:

-Te das cuenta, Arren, de que un acto no es, como creen los jóvenes, lo mismo que una piedra que levantas del suelo y arrojas lejos, que da en el blanco o yerra, y nada más. Cuando levantas la piedra, la tierra se aligera y la mano que la sostiene es más pesada. Cuando la arrojas, influye en los circuitos de los astros, y allí donde golpea o cae, el universo cambia. De un acto cualquiera depende el Equilibrio del todo. [...] Pero nosotros, los que tenemos poder [...] hemos de aprender a mantener el Equilibrio.

Lo he aprendido de #ursulakleguin #ursulaleguin en #LaCostaMasLejana:

-Te das cuenta, Arren, de que un acto no es, como creen los jóvenes, lo mismo que una piedra que levantas del suelo y arrojas lejos, que da en el blanco o yerra, y nada más. Cuando levantas la piedra, la tierra se aligera y la mano que la sostiene es más pesada. Cuando la arrojas, influye en los circuitos de los astros, y allí donde golpea o cae, el universo cambia. De un acto cualquiera depende el Equilibrio del todo. [...] Pero nosotros, los que tenemos poder [...] hemos de aprender a mantener el Equilibrio.

Member of my (online) #writing group says my world building and style remind him of Ursula K Le Guin. 🥰

mouse drop!

#LeGuin #UrsulaLeGuin

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

"As for the stuff in your computer that pretends to correct your punctuation or grammar, disable it. These programs are on a pitifully low level of competence; they’ll chop your sentences short and stupidify your writing. Competence is up to you."

— Ursula Le Guin, Steering the Craft

#UrsulaLeGuin #fuckAI

“Read it now” – Ursula K. Le Guin

Weaving folklore, fairy tale & Norse myth into a shimmering, witty & slyly subversive tapestry, Naomi Mitchison’s TRAVEL LIGHT – a rediscovered gem of classic fantasy writing – has just been republished in the UK by Virago

@bookstodon

https://store.virago.co.uk/products/travel-light

#Scottish #literature #fantasy #kidlit #20thcentury #womenswriting #ursulaLeGuin #NaomiMitchison #folklore #mythology

While in Glasgow yesterday, I couldn’t resist a visit to Good Press in St. Andrew’s Street. It’s probably for the best that this amazing shop crammed full of books, zines, music and other treasures isn’t on my doorstep, because I’d be there every other day…They have things I’d never find anywhere else!

Picked up a couple of interesting titles (it would have been rude not to!).

https://goodpress.co.uk/

#GoodPress #GoodPressGlasgow #Books #Zines #IndependentBookshop #UrsulaKLeGuin #UrsulaLeGuin #ALargerReality #WinterTexts #WithABird #AvianKinship #Onomatopee #OnomatopeeBooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon

"I went to the salt beds by the mouth of the river, in the May of my nineteenth year, to get salt for the sacred meal."

-- First sentence of Ursula Le Guin's *Lavinia*

Started this two nights ago.

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#FirstSentences #UrsulaLeGuin #Lavinia

Pitkiin aikoihin en ollut Le Guinin teoksia lukenut mutta tämä novellikokoelma palautti mieleen että jotkut sen osaavat, kirjoittamisen. Ja sen kysymisen että mitä on olla olemassa.

#kirjat #UrsulaLeGuin

"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.

#anarchism #thedispossessed #ursulaleguin

Great crowd in Vergennes Vermont last night for "Ego Tourism: How the Tao Made Me (a bit less) Weird." (the Ursula Le Guin version)

Now it's your turn Portland. 3 shows this weekend:

Sat 11am Kenton branch library, 8226 N Denver Avenue

Sat 5pm Beaverton City Library, Cathy Stanton Room

Sun 3pm Kenton branch library.

This is in conjunction with the Ursula K. Le Guin exhibit at the Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, through Feb 8th. Fri-Sat-Sun 12-5. Like my shows, it's free.
8371 N. Interstate Ave Portland, OR 97217 - around the corner from the Kenton library.

Sponsored by taoish.org
Thanks to the Le Guin estate for permission to read "Meditation in the Desert" as part of the show.
#portland #PortlandOR #scifi #ukl #leguin #ursulaleguin

Ego Tourism: How the Tao Made Me (a bit) Less Weird

https://www.palindromefight.com

This week - 4 free shows in conjunction with the Ursula Le Guin exhibit at the Oregon Center for Contemporary Arts (OCCA), sponsored by taoish.org

Vergennes, Vermont - Bixby Library Thursday Jan 22, 5:30 - 6:30 pm

Portland - Kenton branch library (around the corner from OCCA)
Saturday Jan 24 11am, and Sunday Jan 25 3pm

Beaverton City Library, Cathy Stanton Room, Sat. Jan 24th 5:00 pm

Thanks to the Le Guin estate for their support, and for permission to quote the poem "Meditation in the Desert"
#dao #tao #daoism #taoism #scifi #leguin #ursulaleguin #sciencefiction

I just finished reading The Word for World is Forest by #ursulakleguin .

Wow. What a powerful book. I think I even liked it more then The Dispossesses and the Left Hand of Darkness. Although liked is the wrong word. It made me sad and it made me feel extremely uncomfortable. But it sucked me in.

The colonozing human mind is fucked up.

#UrsulaLeGuin
#bookstodon

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 dad’s 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, wouldn’t accept it. She didn’t 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 didn’t align with typical gender roles, but I kept that secret close to my tape-bound chest.

"Solarpunk represents a movement from today’s 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 wasn’t 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 dad’s 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 #UrsulaLeGuin’s 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 hadn’t 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."

Read more:
https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/solarpunk-imagines-future-renewable-tech-socio-ecological-enlightenment/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/PHXNH

#SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #HopePunk #BuildingCommunity #Resiliency

Ursula K. Le Guin: Kompassiruusu
(suom. Titia Schuurman)

En ole tätä ennen lukenut Le Guinilta mitään, mutta tämä novellikokoelma olikin erinomainen tapa aloittaa kirjailijaan tutustuminen. Olen tiennyt hänen kirjoistaan oikeastaan vain Maameren tarinat ja sen takia pitänyt häntä puhtaasti fantasiakirjailijana, mutta tämän kokoelman myötä tajusin, että hän onkin todella monipuolinen kirjoittaja.

Mitä Le Guinin romaania suosittelisit? Onko Maameri-sarja pakollista luettavaa vai kannattaako aloittaa jostain muusta?

#kirjamastodon #kirjafedi #kirjat #lukeminen #kompassiruusu #ursulaleguin #ursulakleguin

My brain really clued on to the ocean foam here, as I just finished #UrsulaLeGuin's *Searoad* a week or two ago, and ocean foam does significant work throughout those stories.

Love those serendipitous connections. Almost wonder if Le Guin knew Teasdale's poem...

A quotation from Ursula K. Le Guin

It’s like all the time I was working keeping house and raising the kids and making love and earning our keep I thought there was going to come a time or there would be some place where all of it came together. Like it was words I was saying, all my life, all the kinds of work, just a word here and a word there, but finally all the words would make a sentence, and I could read the sentence. I would have made my soul and know what it was for. But I have made my soul and I don’t know what to do with it. Who wants it?

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) American writer
Story (1995-11), “Ether, OR,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 19

More about this quote: wist.info/leguin-ursula-k/8061…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ursulaleguin #ursulakleguin #gettingold #growingold #meaning #meaningoflife #memory #oldage #retrospect #selfactualization #soul

Attention, émission essentielle aujourd'hui dans Sense of Wonder !

On a relu La Main gauche de la nuit ! Ce roman a-t-il résisté au temps ?

https://buff.ly/VqWu7F9

Avec Laurent Queyssi, Ugo Bellagamba et Etienne Barillier.

#sciencefiction #UrsulaLeGuin

"Literature takes shape and life in the body, in the womb of the mother tongue: always: and the Fathers of Culture get anxious about paternity. They start talking about legitimacy. They steal the baby. They ensure by every means that the artist, the writer, is male. This involves intellectual abortion by centuries of women artists, infanticide of works by women writers, and a whole medical corps of sterilizing critics working to purify the Canon, to reduce the subject matter and style of literature to something Ernest Hemingway could have understood."

This morning, I was reminded of a footnote in my version of *Searoad* that leads to Le Guin's commencement address at Bryn Mawr in 1986, from which the above is taken.

The footnote appears early on -- to the "Hand, Cup, Shell" chapter - but could have been used in a number of other places. The address really reads as a very powerful companion piece to the book.

The full address is at the link.

https://serendipstudio.org/sci_cult/leguin/

#UrsulaLeGuin

"The foam women are billowy, rolling, tumbling, white and dirty white and yellowish and dun, scudding, heaving, flying, broken. They lie at the longest reach of teh waves, rounded and curded, shaking and trembling, shivering hips and quivering buttocks, torn by the stiff, piercing wind, dispersed to nothing, gone. The long wave breaks again and they lie white and dirty white, yellowish and dun, billowing, trembling under the wind, flying, gone, till the long wave breaks again."

-- First lines of Ursula Le Guin, *Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand* (1991)

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Started this last night. Will put #ReadingNotes here.

#UrsulaLeGuin #FirstSentences

Le Guin could wield such terrible beauty & power in a single sentence:

"Rose, who was busy crowding a lifetime of observation into the fourteen years that were all she was going to have for it."
~ Dragonfly, #UrsulaLeGuin

#books

"Stress-Rhythm in Poetry and Prose" is an essay by Le Guin that matches up really well with Meyer's notions of rhythm and its relationship to pulse. She also makes the distinction, it is something that matters.

Which further validates my thinking about collecting accents in systems. About the way complexity forms its own pulse, a living product of its interactions.

All this led me to wonder if we are too busy alerting on how things add up, when we should be watching how things interact. That's what I am trying with Monteverdi, tilting the whole system into a different juxtaposition. Making it possible to pick any data with patterns and fit them together into a system viewfinder.

#SRE #Observability #UrsulaLeGuin #LeonardMeyer

""Checker on seven!" and back between the checkstands unloading the wire carts, apples three for eighty-nine, pineapple chunks on special, half gallon of two percent, seventy-five, four, and one is five, thank you, from ten to six six days a week; and he was good at it."

-- #FirstSentences of Ursula Le Guin, *The Beginning Place*

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Will use this thread for any #ReadingNotes. What an opener!

#Bookstodon #UrsulaLeGuin

"In the sunlight in the center of a ring of trees Lev sat cross-legged, his head bent above his hands."

-- First sentence from Ursula Le Guin, "The Eye of the Heron"

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Started this the night before last, continuing my Le Guin adventures. Will use this for #ReadingNotes.

#FirstSentences #UrsulaLeGuin #TheEyeOfTheHeron #Bookstodon

"Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss. The light shines through it, and the dark enters it."

-- #FirstSentences of Ursula Le Guin, "The Lathe of Heaven"

(Will use this thread for any #ReadingNotes)

#NowReading #UrsulaLeGuin #Bookstodon

I wrote a post about Trust & Safety that I have been meaning to write for a while, but @caseynewton wrote something recently that reminded me.

It acts as a useful mission statement for the advocacy organisation I am slowly creating, which I have talked about in a few interviews, but not gotten around to yet - The problems with C-PTSD and AuDHD in concert mean that everything comes at a glacial start :)

https://superhighwayman.com/2025/the-ones-who-thrive-in-omelas/

#Writing #TrustAndSafety #Blog #Security #Infosec #Advocacy #SocialMedia #Online #Dating #OnlineSafetyAct #Moderation #Wellness #Health #PTSD #ADHD #AuDHD #Omelas #SciFi #UrsulaLeGuin

I wrote a post about Trust & Safety that I have been meaning to write for a while, but @caseynewton wrote something recently that reminded me.

It acts as a useful mission statement for the advocacy organisation I am slowly creating, which I have talked about in a few interviews, but not gotten around to yet - The problems with C-PTSD and AuDHD in concert mean that everything comes at a glacial start :)

https://superhighwayman.com/2025/the-ones-who-thrive-in-omelas/

#Writing #TrustAndSafety #Blog #Security #Infosec #Advocacy #SocialMedia #Online #Dating #OnlineSafetyAct #Moderation #Wellness #Health #PTSD #ADHD #AuDHD #Omelas #SciFi #UrsulaLeGuin

I wrote a post about Trust & Safety that I have been meaning to write for a while, but @caseynewton wrote something recently that reminded me.

It acts as a useful mission statement for the advocacy organisation I am slowly creating, which I have talked about in a few interviews, but not gotten around to yet - The problems with C-PTSD and AuDHD in concert mean that everything comes at a glacial start :)

https://superhighwayman.com/2025/the-ones-who-thrive-in-omelas/

#Writing #TrustAndSafety #Blog #Security #Infosec #Advocacy #SocialMedia #Online #Dating #OnlineSafetyAct #Moderation #Wellness #Health #PTSD #ADHD #AuDHD #Omelas #SciFi #UrsulaLeGuin

I wrote a post about Trust & Safety that I have been meaning to write for a while, but @caseynewton wrote something recently that reminded me.

It acts as a useful mission statement for the advocacy organisation I am slowly creating, which I have talked about in a few interviews, but not gotten around to yet - The problems with C-PTSD and AuDHD in concert mean that everything comes at a glacial start :)

https://superhighwayman.com/2025/the-ones-who-thrive-in-omelas/

#Writing #TrustAndSafety #Blog #Security #Infosec #Advocacy #SocialMedia #Online #Dating #OnlineSafetyAct #Moderation #Wellness #Health #PTSD #ADHD #AuDHD #Omelas #SciFi #UrsulaLeGuin

I wrote a post about Trust & Safety that I have been meaning to write for a while, but @caseynewton wrote something recently that reminded me.

It acts as a useful mission statement for the advocacy organisation I am slowly creating, which I have talked about in a few interviews, but not gotten around to yet - The problems with C-PTSD and AuDHD in concert mean that everything comes at a glacial start :)

https://superhighwayman.com/2025/the-ones-who-thrive-in-omelas/

#Writing #TrustAndSafety #Blog #Security #Infosec #Advocacy #SocialMedia #Online #Dating #OnlineSafetyAct #Moderation #Wellness #Health #PTSD #ADHD #AuDHD #Omelas #SciFi #UrsulaLeGuin

Zoe Heselton – Only a Link in a Chain
#Folk #alainpeters #antifascist #blues #leonardcohen #lgbtqia2s+ #live #orality #poetry #postpunk #sciencefiction #singersongwriter #sonhouse #spokenword #ursulaleguin #Strasbourg
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://zoeheselton.bandcamp.com/album/only-a-link-in-a-chain

Zoe Heselton – Only a Link in a Chain
#Folk #alainpeters #antifascist #blues #leonardcohen #lgbtqia2s+ #live #orality #poetry #postpunk #sciencefiction #singersongwriter #sonhouse #spokenword #ursulaleguin #Strasbourg
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://zoeheselton.bandcamp.com/album/only-a-link-in-a-chain

Zoe Heselton – Only a Link in a Chain
#Folk #alainpeters #antifascist #blues #leonardcohen #lgbtqia2s+ #live #orality #poetry #postpunk #sciencefiction #singersongwriter #sonhouse #spokenword #ursulaleguin #Strasbourg
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://zoeheselton.bandcamp.com/album/only-a-link-in-a-chain

Zoe Heselton – Only a Link in a Chain
#Folk #alainpeters #antifascist #blues #leonardcohen #lgbtqia2s+ #live #orality #poetry #postpunk #sciencefiction #singersongwriter #sonhouse #spokenword #ursulaleguin #Strasbourg
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://zoeheselton.bandcamp.com/album/only-a-link-in-a-chain

Wow ein spannender Artikel über mein Lieblingsgenre #SciFi in der @ndaktuell :

"Sci-Fi-#Serien und -#Filme verkleiden sich als ... #Kriegsfilme, obwohl das Genre viel mehr zu bieten hat"

https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1191339.serien-und-filme-science-fiction-als-krieg-verkleidet.html

Danke @Stege für den Hinweis #ScienceFiction #Andor #StarWars #ElectricState #Dune #BladeRunner #PerryRhodan #Eternauta #Avatar #UrsulaLeGuin

"Remanded into custody for their own protection"

Reminds me of what Ursula Le Guin thought on the nature of prisons in an Anarchist community, some crimes are so heinous you'll need to protect the criminal from the Public.

The town of Springfield did not take kindly to the statue head being cut off

#SycamoreGap #UKCrime #Masculinity #UrsulaLeGuin #TheSimpsons

Friday - #art opening 6-9pm, Fiber work in response to #UrsulaLeGuin’s Carrier Bag of Fiction (or Art) essay (1986, tldr: human' crucial first tools were not spears, but bags)

@ Nave Gallery, #SomervilleMA (near #Tufts)

https://navegallery.org/wp/carrier-bag-theory-of-fiction/
https://stillmoving.org/resources/the-carrier-bag-theory-of-fiction
#ScienceFiction #LeGuin #CarrierBag #feminism #BostonArt #Boston #gather #fiber #BostonWeekend 28/x

The Child and the Shadow by Ursula Le Guin [pdf]

https://www.johnirons.com/pdfs/shadowleguin.pdf

#HackerNews #TheChildandtheShadow #UrsulaLeGuin #pdf #LiteratureAnalysis #ReadingCommunity

[The world is on fire for real, tho — ignore it at your peril and everyone else's.]

"Reality is in the eye of the beholder" (an excerpt from my one-but-last book)

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/reality-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/

#reality #umwelt #zatoichi #buddhism #mahayana #ursulaleguin #perception #cognitivescience

Mies on niin kuin pähkinä - täynnä sitä itseään. Kun se loppuu, ei jää kuin tyhjä kuori.

• Vanha noita Le Guin:in teoksessa, en nyt muista oliko Toinen Tuuli mutta sinnepäin.

#UrsulaLeGuin #kirjat #miehet

#GRK0099 #Azimuts #SF #Recueil #UrsulaLEGUIN
LES QUATRE VENTS DU DÉSIR [1982]
Ursula K. Le Guin (Belial, 2022)
iBouquin:https://mega.nz/file/xIBhmQpY#kvw6FZ6Ho6cDl8WRVWkkYB5fGypET2_wfAKsu6HCVN8
Si t'as les moyens:
https://belial.fr/legacy/a/ursula-k-le-guin/les-quatre-vents-du-desir

Présentation:
Un retour sur la planète Nivôse, celle du roman La Main gauche de la nuit… La découverte d’une planète inexplorée dont les habitants humanoïdes, contre toute attente, s’expriment dans une langue dérivée du français… Une première approche de cette nouvelle discipline qu’est la thérolinguistique, avec l’étude d’œuvres littéraires écrites par des fourmis… Le récit de la première expédition au pôle Sud, accomplie en secret par des femmes, bien avant la mission de Roald Amundsen… La véritable raison pour laquelle le temps nous échappe…
Vingt récits comme autant d’éclats du talent hors normes d’Ursula K. Le Guin, une préface de David Meulemans, une passionnante interview-carrière de la lauréate du National Book Award et une bibliographie : salué par les prix Locus et Ditmar, voici le deuxième recueil de l’autrice des Dépossédés dans la collection « Kvasar ». Un incontournable.

« La prose lumineuse d’Ursula K. Le Guin respire l’intelligence. Elle élève la fiction à hauteur de la poésie et lui donne la densité de l’allégorie. »
Jonathan Lethem

« D’une brillante variété, les nouvelles rassemblées ici expriment la fusion de la science et des mythes : texture moderne et profondeur hors du temps. »
Chicago Sun-Times

Plan:
NADIR
- L’auteur des graines d’acacia
- La Nouvelle Atlantide (prix Locus 1976)
- Le Chat de Schrödinger

NORD
- Deux retards sur la ligne du Nord
- Le Test
- Une pièce d’un sou

EST
- Premier rapport du naufragé étranger au Kadanh de Derb
- Le Journal de la Rose
- L’Âne blanc
- Le Phœnix

ZÉNITH
- Intraphone
- L’Œil transfiguré
- Labyrinthes
- Les Sentiers du désir

OUEST
- La Harpe de Gwilan
- Malheur County
- L’eau est vaste

SUD
- Le Récit de sa femme
- Quelques approches au problème du manque de temps
- Sur (prix Locus 1983)

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
est une auteure américaine de science-fiction et de fantasy.

Elle est la fille de l'anthropologue Alfred Louis Kroeber et de l'écrivaine Theodora Kroeber.

Elle fait ses études au Radcliffe College de l'Université Harvard et à l'Université Columbia à New York. Après l'obtention d'une bourse d'études Fulbright, elle part pour la France où elle rencontre l'historien américain d'origine française Charles Le Guin avec qui elle se marie en 1953 à Paris.
Elle présente en 1952 une thèse sur "Les idées de la mort dans la poésie de Ronsard".

Son premier roman remarquable est "Le Monde de Rocannon" en 1966. Le succès vient avec la publication en 1969 de son roman "La main gauche de la nuit" qui reçoit de nombreux prix (prix Hugo du meilleur roman et prix Nebula du meilleur roman) et est devenu depuis un des grands classiques de la science-fiction. Ce roman, début d'un cycle intitulé "Le cycle de l'Ekumen", qui comporte six autres ouvrages, brise les schémas de la science-fiction de l'âge d'or.

Bien qu'elle ait écrit de nombreux romans, des recueils de poèmes et livres pour enfants, elle est surtout connue pour ses nouvelles et romans de science-fiction dans lesquels elle explore de façon originale des thèmes anarchistes, féministes, psychologiques ou de l'identité sexuelle.

La plupart de ses écrits science-fictifs se distinguent par l'importance qu'ils accordent aux sciences sociales comme la sociologie ou l'anthropologie. Elle s'est beaucoup intéressée aux questions environnementales. Certaines de ses œuvres comme "Planète d'exil" (1966) ou "Le nom du monde est forêt" (1972) appartiennent au genre écofiction. Elle a abordé des questions comme le clonage dès la fin des années 1960 avec la nouvelle "Neuf vies" (1969).

Elle a également publié des essais appréciés sur la littérature et des conseils sur l'écriture.

En 2002, le prix Nebula lui décerne le titre de grand maître de la science-fiction.
En 2014, elle reçoit le National Book Award pour toute son œuvre, une des distinctions littéraires les plus prestigieuses des États-Unis.

Elle est une figure emblématique des littératures de l’imaginaire. Elle commence à écrire dès l’âge de onze ans et sera publiée régulièrement à partir des années 60. Mais c’est avec La Main Gauche de la Nuit, publié en France chez Robert Laffont en 1971 et lauréat des prix Hugo et Nebula, qu’elle connaît le succès. Ce roman, qui interroge les dynamiques de genre dans une société où toustes sont androgynes, est emblématique du « Cycle de l’Ekumen », dans lequel Le Guin utilise le trope d’une humanité multi-planétaire pour explorer des sociétés très diverses. C’est en 1974 que le cycle de l’Ekumen connaît son paroxysme avec Les Dépossédés, une utopie anarchiste qualifiée par l’autrice elle-même d’« utopie ambiguë ». Profondément engagée contre la guerre du Viêt Nam, inspirée par Pierre Kropotkine et Paul Goodman, Le Guin a ici voulu écrire sur la paix, l’ouverture du dialogue entre deux peuples voisins en apparence trop distincts pour s’entendre.

Pour connue qu’elle soit dans le monde de la science-fiction, l’autrice s’est aussi fait remarquer en fantasy, par l'écriture du « Cycle de Terremer », dont la parution des nouvelles et romans s’étale entre 1964 et 2018. Inspiré de la philosophie taoïste que Le Guin a étudiée des décennies durant, il propose une fantasy pacifiste dont sont absents les grands affrontements guerriers qui caractérisent l’heroic fantasy de l’époque.

S’il est dur de résumer son œuvre aussi riche que variée, qui lui aura notamment valu sept prix Hugo, six Nebula et, en France, un Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, un certain nombre de ses textes sont à mentionner. Les recueils Aux douze vents du monde et Les Quatre vents du désir rassemblent bon nombre de ses nouvelles majeures.

Sa trilogie de fantasy « Chroniques des rivages de l’Ouest » (publiée chez l’Atalante en 2010), loin des poncifs du genre, aborde avec finesse diverses thématiques, qu’elles soient éthiques ou politiques. Dans Lavinia (2011), son ultime roman, Le Guin revisite l’Énéide à travers le prisme des intrigues familiales d’une protagoniste parfaitement incarnée…

Le numéro 78 de la revue Bifrost la met par ailleurs à l’honneur au travers d’un dossier complet.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/#:~:text=You%20are%20going%20to%20run,putting%20kids%20in%20the%20hole.%E2%80%9D if you’ve read Ursula LeGuin’s story, you might want to follow it up with “Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” by Isabel J. Kim. #Omelas #UrsulaLeGuin #ShortStory

#reading recommendation by our #librarian in #hkustlibrary -
https://library.hkust.edu.hk/blog/2024/01/30/looking-for-a-good-read-ursula-k-le-guin/
#UrsulaLeGuin #goodread #books #lovetoread

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

#450 Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski (eds) - The Fantastic Imagination: An Anthology of High Fantasy. Avon Books, New York, 1977, 1st edition, 2nd printing. #RobertHBoyer #KennethJZahorski #AvonBooks #JRRTolkein #CSLewis #UrsulaLeGuin #Fantasy #BookOfTheDay

I’ve decided to dive into the world of Ursula Le Guin’s children’s books! Wow, that writer is amazing! Some of her stories have brought me to tears (“Fire and Stone”) and others have lit up my heart. Children’s books are such a wonderful way to connect with the “self,” and Le Guin’s technology for that purpose is especially unique.

I specifically want to highlight the book titled, “Tom Mouse,” as it encapsulates a #posthuman mindset very well. It also might be my new favorite story, it’s just unique and amazing in wonderful ways! This is a colorful story where diverse beings come together to bring more joy to each other’s lives. It gives voice to marginalized populations including mice, moons, stars, humans of diverse color, age, gender. An excellent example of #DEI

#ursulaleguin #childrensbooks #theself

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/tom-mouse

I come to #posthumanism from a science background, via #permaculture > #timothymorton > #francescaferrando . I think I’m doing it backwards, because only now am I diving into #literarure , #history , #religion , and the rest of the #humanities . It seems that many folx come to PH from a #humanities background.
I’m now discovering a whole slew of things I never knew existed! And finding that a whole bunch of people are studying the things I thought I was the alone in thinking about… so exciting!

#4Ecognition , #cognition, #panpsychism , #digitalhumanities ,
#cognitivenarratology , #consciousness, #reality , #newmaterialisms , #dualism , #phenomenology, #autoethnography , #metaphysics , #ursulaleguin , #krishnamurti where have you been all my life?