君子不器
Red Planets: Marxism And Science Fiction : Mark Bould, China Mieville : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive Science fiction and socialism have always had a close relationship. Many science fiction novelists and filmmakers have used the genre to examine explicit or implicit Marxist concerns. Red Planets is an accessible and lively account, which…
Futures of Negation: Jameson’s “Archaeologies of the Future” and Utopian Science Fiction Jameson complicates the specificity of utopian thought in science fictions by situating these messages firmly in the sociocultural and material histories that produce them. Jameson’s explication of the historical conditions that generate individuated wishes for utopia is understandable: the conditions that determine the…
cruisin a Taiwanese snack aisle with munchies, ca. 2014
And what language is (not what it means, not the form in which it says what it means), what language is in its being, is that softest of voices, that nearly imperceptible retreat, that weakness deep inside and surrounding every thing and every face – what bathes the belated effort of the origin and the…
UrsulaKLeGuin-LateinDayBTCfinal Ursula K LeGuin interview (53mins)@between the covers
Ursula K. LeGuin Q&A Q: Nicholas Lezard has written ‘Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write.’ What do you make of this comment in the light of the phenomenal success of the Potter books? I’d like to hear your opinion of JK Rowling’s writing style UKL: I have no great opinion of it. When…
John Duff (counterfeiter) – Wikipedia John Duff, born John McElduff, or possibly John Michael McElduff, because early court records referred to him as John Michael Duff (September 1759 or August 1760 – June 4, 1799 or 1805), was a counterfeiter, criminal gang leader, horse thief, cattle thief, hog thief, salt maker, longhunter, scout, and soldier…