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4_ergo_feminism_iv_octavia_butler [2022/05/29 12:03]
baruch
4_ergo_feminism_iv_octavia_butler [2022/06/01 23:00]
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 +====== Carrier Bag Theory and Practice ======
 +====== Ergo-feminism IV : Octavia Butler ======
  
  
 +On the edge of being human, when human being is barely bearable, Butler’s science fiction allows her to encounter the persistence of racism, colonialism and patriarchy in a highly technologized world with uncommon intimacy and emotional power. 
  
  
-Readings    +Our first session in fiction-philosophy
-{{ :octavia-e-butler-xenogenesis-book-1-dawn-1.pdf |Xenogensis}}    +
-{{ :human_contradictions_in_octavia_e._butler_s_work.pdf |Human Contradictions in O. Butler}}+
  
 +How escapism can help us stay human in intolerable conditions from which we cannot escape. 
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 +How escapism reaffirms commitments to humanity, whatever that is!
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 +{{ :cb_1_d_butler_pres.pdf |Baruch's slides}}
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 +Readings   \\
 +{{ :octavia-e-butler-xenogenesis-book-1-dawn-1.pdf |Xenogenesis}}   \\
 +{{ :human_contradictions_in_octavia_e._butler_s_work.pdf |Human Contradictions in O. Butler}}   \\
 +{{ :wiki:captive-maternal-love-octavia-butler-and-sci-fi-family-values.pdf |Joy James on Octavia Butler "Captive Maternal Love"}}
  
  
  
  
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