rhizomancer 🪐🏴He començat "La mà esquerra de la foscor" de Ursula K. Le Guin i, més enllà de que l'acabaré en dos dies 
, feia temps que no m'endinsava de tal manera en un llibre, fins al punt de perdre la noció de les hores.
És la millor.
Flittermouse 🎸🥁🎹🏳️⚧️🐩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?
thermonuclear small claims"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
Assoc for Scottish Literature“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
https://store.virago.co.uk/products/travel-light
#Scottish #literature #fantasy #kidlit #20thcentury #womenswriting #ursulaLeGuin #NaomiMitchison #folklore #mythology
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Nordic homestead near Russian border: couple's no-bank, no-phone life
RosyI finished reading The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin. I had watched both movie adaptations a little while ago. The premise is that a man named George Orr has dreams that alter reality. He is afraid of this power, so he abuses drugs to try to stop the dreams. He gets into trouble with the government after this, so he is assigned a therapist, Dr Haber. But when Haber realizes what George can do, he starts hypnotizing George so he can manipulate his dreams and reality. He dreams himself into a famous and powerful researcher. But the dreams usually go wrong in some way. Haber tells George to dream of peace on Earth; this leads to a war with aliens over the Moon instead. He tells George to dream away the overpopulation that is leading to mass starvation, so a plague comes and kills billions of people... and so on.
It is a short book with interesting if confusing themes of Daoism and antipsychiatry, but I take issue with the way minorities are written, especially George's love interest, Heather. She is a biracial (Black and white) woman who dislikes having brown skin. When Haber tells George to dream away racism, everyone becomes gray. Gray Heather is "gentler." In the end, Heather becomes brown again and her personality becomes "fiercer" and "difficult" as a result. There were other odd things about her character but suffice to say, I don't like it.
#TheLatheOfHeaven #UrsulaKLeGuin #UrsulaLeGuin #books #reading #Daoism #Taoism #psychiatry #antipsychiatry
Brian LavelleWhile 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!).
#GoodPress #GoodPressGlasgow #Books #Zines #IndependentBookshop #UrsulaKLeGuin #UrsulaLeGuin #ALargerReality #WinterTexts #WithABird #AvianKinship #Onomatopee #OnomatopeeBooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
Artun FaliroInclusion, as informed by critical theory and a historically-grounded #power and #politics lens, is important and yet often missing, in discourses on democracy in 21st century.
📍 Inclusion that is just, should be accompanied by unpacking of structures made invisible by historical and contemporary #hegemony and by #redistribution of power.
#UrsulaLeGuin #GloriaAnzaldua #intersectionality #intertextuality
Image: long form text on #criticaltheory and #inclusion
Optimistic FuturesLast week I was delighted to spot my book, Well Housed, keeping the best company on a friend's bookshelf 😃
#sci-fi, #sciencefiction, #fiction, #author, #authors, #publishing, #indieauthor, #southafricanauthors, #optimisticfutures, #optimisticfuturefiction, #ianbanks, #ursulaleguin
JdeBPMostly, what they read are the old boy's #SciFi stories from around the 1930s and 1940s, where the male uberman genius industrialist, with his girlfriend along for the ride in the rocketship, saves the galaxy, and knows better and does better than stupid governments.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/115826293180493731
Every half-arsed idea that makes for a good boy's story but is terrible science, from greenfingering a planetary climate to swarms of 'AIs' in space, has a precursor of some kind in these tales.
It's not that they've missed LeGuin specifically. It's that they've missed six decades of thoughtful counterpoints to that old stuff beginning in the late 1960s.