Jan8h ago

https://www.tor-online.de/magazin/science-fiction/lieben-was-wir-nicht-verstehen-science-fiction-als-praxis-der-unmoeglichen

#Sciencefiction #ursulaleguin #octaviabutler #feminismus

Lieben, was wir nicht verstehen. Science Fiction als Praxis der unmöglichen Empathie

Der Beitrag untersucht Science Fiction als eine Praxis, die uns in Beziehung mit radikaler Fremdheit bringt. Anhand von Werken wie Le Guins Die linke Hand der Dunkelheit und Butlers Bloodchild zeigt Aiki Mira, wie Science Fiction uns ermöglicht, Liebe und Verbundenheit jenseits eines vollständigen Verstehens zu denken. Eine Fähigkeit, die in Zeiten von KI, Neurodiversität, queeren Identitäten, aussterbenden Arten und ökologischem Kollaps zunehmend notwendig erscheint.

Tor Online
TheStrangelet 4d ago
FYI!
https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/ursula-k-le-guins-blog-has-been-turned-into-a-podcast-193257106.html #UrsulaLeGuin
Ursula K. Le Guin's blog has been turned into a podcast

New episodes of 'In Your Spare Time' will be released every Wednesday, starting April 8.

Engadget
Boldly.Blue5d ago
Solarpunk: The Genre That Dares to Dream the World Repaired https://boldly.blue/solarpunk-genre-guide/ #Solarpunk #SpeculativeFiction #ScienceFiction #ClimateFixtion #Hopepunk #Lunarpunk #BeckyChambersAuthor #KimStanleyRobinson #NnediOkorafor #UrsulaLeGuin #GenreGuide #CyberpunkAlternative
Solarpunk: The Genre That Dares to Dream the World Repaired - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

Solarpunk is the speculative fiction genre that replaced dystopian doom with solar panels, community gardens, and radical hope. A complete introduction to the genre's origins, subgenres, key writers — Becky Chambers, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nnedi Okorafor, Ursula Le Guin — and how it compares to science fiction, dystopian fiction, fantasy, and horror.

David Somerfleck
book_dragon5d ago

From @mariapopova , in honor of the #Artemis2 launch. This old (?) lady would like to volunteer!

"Into the spaceship, Granny."

#UrsulaLeGuin #TheMarginalian

https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/30/ursula-k-le-guin-menopause/

Ursula K. Le Guin on Change, Menopause as Rebirth, and the Civilizational Value of Elders

“Into the space ship, Granny.”

The Marginalian
Ahtynon5d ago

Une leçon importante pour mon cerveau insatiable. Par la lumineuse Ursula Le Guin.

In Five ways to forgiveness.

#ursulaleguin #VendrediLecture #lifelessons

Boldly.BlueMar 31

American Nightmares: The Near-Future Dystopia as Political Warning, from Bradbury to Butler to the Present
https://boldly.blue/near-future-dystopia-political-science-fiction-guide/
A guide to the American political dystopia. Enter at your own risk.

#Dystopia #ScienceFiction #RayBradbury #OctaviaButler #PhilipKDick #UrsulaLeGuin #NKJemisin #PoliticalFiction #SpeculativeFiction #LiteraryAnalysis #Fahrenheit451 #ParableOfTheSower
#dystopianfiction

American Nightmares: The Near-Future Dystopia as Political Warning, from Bradbury to Butler to the Present - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

A definitive guide to the American political dystopia — from Fahrenheit 451's burning books to Octavia Butler's eerily prescient 2024, Philip K. Dick's manufactured realities, Ursula Le Guin's anarchist ambiguity, and N.K. Jemisin's enslaved geological workers. Why these five writers share a single tradition, and what that tradition demands of the reader.

David Somerfleck
Boldly.BlueMar 31
Solarpunk: The Genre That Dares to Dream the World Repaired
https://boldly.blue/solarpunk-genre-guide/
A guide to the Solarpunk genre and how it stacks up against similar genres.
#Solarpunk #SpeculativeFiction #ScienceFiction #ClimateFixtion #Hopepunk #Lunarpunk #BeckyChambersAuthor #KimStanleyRobinson #NnediOkorafor #UrsulaLeGuin #GenreGuide #CyberpunkAlternative
Solarpunk: The Genre That Dares to Dream the World Repaired - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

Solarpunk is the speculative fiction genre that replaced dystopian doom with solar panels, community gardens, and radical hope. A complete introduction to the genre's origins, subgenres, key writers — Becky Chambers, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nnedi Okorafor, Ursula Le Guin — and how it compares to science fiction, dystopian fiction, fantasy, and horror.

David Somerfleck
rhiz‏omancer 🏴Mar 26

Acabar un dia esgotador llegint Ursula K. Le Guin em dona una mica de pau. No només pel fet del viatge que suposa endinsar-se en anarquismes còsmics, el handdara, o tot lo místic que envolta les formes de vida narrades.

També pel fet que aquestes visions, aquests somnis, queden enregistrats en una literatura plena de bellesa, d'afirmació, d'imaginació. Ella, entre altris, va teixir aquests desitjos d'un afora en els seus llibres; i totis som part d'aquesta idea, que mantenim amb passió i cuidem.

És quelcom que em passa sempre qur llegeixo o conec sobre anarquistes del passat: ja no hi són, però el seu amor i lluita per horitzons lliures encara deixa llavors per aquesta bella idea que recollim les noves generacions.

#UrsulaLeGuin #TheLeftHandOfDarkness #anarchism

Show threadbsmall2Mar 23
> Ursula K. Le Guin's landmark essay "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction," which proposes that the first human tool was not a weapon, but a container, because gathering was actually more significant a food source than hunting. But, she points out, how the men killed the mammoth makes a more dramatic story than how the women gathered the oats...
#UrsulaLeGuin #CarrierBagTheory #CarrierBagFiction
Flittermouse 🎸🥁🎹🏳️‍⚧️🐩Mar 17

RE: https://aus.social/@fullfathomfive/116241846289279739

I don't use word processors much (or ever, frankly) so grammar-checking is not something I'd normally encounter. Spelling checkers, on the other hand, seem to lurk everywhere, and usually you have to dig deep to find an opt-out. I've been to school where I was taught to spell. I have friends and relatives who genuinely need help with spelling, but why would I have them enabled by default?

#UrsulaLeGuin #fuckAI