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====== Carrier Bag Theory and Practice ====== | ====== Carrier Bag Theory and Practice ====== | ||
====== Ergo-feminism IV : Octavia Butler ====== | ====== Ergo-feminism IV : Octavia Butler ====== | ||
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+ | 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. | ||
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Our first session in fiction-philosophy | Our first session in fiction-philosophy | ||
+ | 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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