on re-reading Le Guin
I’ve recently re-read Ursula Le Guin’s most famous novels, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) and The Dispossessed...
Tag: politics
31 Results
is text our friend?
I’m not so sure about this argument by Hossein Derakhshan: Before I went to prison, I blogged frequently on what...
the asymptote of utopia
I just re-read Kim Stanley Robinson’s magnificent Mars trilogy — about which I hope to teach a class someday —...
vicious circles: identity and anxiety
Last year I published an essay here at The New Atlantis called “Miss Marple and the Problem of Modern Identity.”...
lessons learned
Maybe I should have been writing about Facebook instead of Twitter, but never mind, because my friend Brian Phillips...
a dissertation on monocausal parataxis in social media
We don’t usually do politics here at Text Patterns, but I sort of sent us down that road in my last post. So: I...
revenge of the Morlocks
Well, now, this is interesting: And herein lies the seeds of speciation: a difference in a trait that genes influence...
children of Twitter
It’s a commonplace that Europeans, and people from several other parts of the world, see Americans as — if...
social media, emotion, and politics
I’m not going to enter this contest — I should leave it to people who need the money and the publicity more than I...
pronoun trouble
“Hah! That’s it! Hold it right there!” And then, knowledgeably, confidentially, to the audience: “Pronoun...