#TheDispossessed

donthatedontkillIn EN, the word "work" comes from "do." In FR, "torture." Think about the difference in perspective. I do. It comes up as a US leftist in France, trying to communicate my ideas. In Pravic (I recently finished The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin), same word for work & play. In Ecotopia, the protagonist remarked on how work and play seemed to go hand in hand. Think on that. It's a koan, maybe. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/leftism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#leftism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ursulakleguin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ursulakleguin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/buddhism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#buddhism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/english" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#english</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/french" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#french</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/koan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#koan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thedispossessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thedispossessed</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecotopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecotopia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#zen</a>

Author-ized L.J.<a href="https://writeout.ink/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WritersCoffeeClub</a> June 5 — World Environment Day. Talk about something you’ve read that made you think, “I wish I wrote that.”Not so much wishing I wrote it as learning the hell out of others' triumphs. I don't want to write that exact passage, but I do want to embody the techniques and processes that enabled it. <a href="https://writeout.ink/tags/UrsulaKLeGuin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UrsulaKLeGuin</a>'s <a href="https://writeout.ink/tags/TheDispossessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheDispossessed</a> is an enduring example, with the structure mirroring the theory of time-space itself from the novel and its political theme as well, culminating in this unforgettable passage:"It was deep, in the deep streets, softened by open air and by distances, indistinct, overwhelming, that lifting up of thousands of voices in one song. The singing of the front of the march, far away up the street, and of the endless crowds coming on behind, was put out of phase by the distance the sound must travel, so that the melody seemed always to be lagging and catching up with itself, like a canon, and all the parts of the song were being sung at one time, in the same moment, though each singer sang the tune as a line from beginning to end." 😭

Vural Özdemir"You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UrsulaLeGuin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UrsulaLeGuin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transcendence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transcendence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheDispossessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheDispossessed</a>On Nov 17th, 2024, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award–winning classic book, Harper Perennial published a commemorative edition, with a new foreword by Karen Joy Fowler.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#culture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/critique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#critique</a>

AndreasDavourI'm reading *The Dispossessed* for the first time. Yeah, I know I'm late to the party...It's a set of very weird worlds she's portraying in this book. I find the culture on Anarres revolting in it's insularity, and groupthink. At the same time the misogynism expressed by the people on Urras is just as disgusting. It really isn't a clear cut ideal, any of them. Classic Le Guin making things more complex than you first imagine. She was good.<a href="https://dice.camp/tags/UrsulaKLeGuin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UrsulaKLeGuin</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/TheDispossessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheDispossessed</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

DoomsdaysCW[Masters Thesis] <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Degrowth</a> Aesthetics in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Solarpunk</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheDispossessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheDispossessed</a>, & <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OccupyWallStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OccupyWallStreet</a>by Andrew Gabriel Rose, 2024 "This thesis identifies and explores aesthetic strategies in art, literature, and social activism that inspire the desirability of degrowth economic paradigms in post-industrial imaginaries. These imaginaries, composed of cultural images, narratives, and representations, shape collective perceptions, expectations, and understandings. Drawing examples from The Dispossessed by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UrsulaKLeGuin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UrsulaKLeGuin</a>, stylistic elements from the emerging solarpunk genre, and practical demonstrations of direct action achieved by the Occupy Wall Street movement, the study explores how artists, scholars, and activists can present beautiful or compelling alternatives to dominant narratives of growth and consumption using targeted aesthetic strategies. A comparative analysis of approaches found in these examples highlights the competitiveness of narratives and practices that prioritize <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sustainability</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/equity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#equity</a>, and well-being over the prevailing logic of endless economic expansion. By synthesizing insights from these diverse sources, this study seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of how aesthetics can be leveraged to promote degrowth as a viable and desirable economic alternative. Additionally, it seeks to inform future interventions by providing concrete examples and strategies for promoting degrowth in ways that resonate with diverse audiences, ultimately helping a sustainable and equitable society become more imaginable."<a href="https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/theses/mg74qv204" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/theses/mg74qv204</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SolarPunkSunday</a>

Liam O'Mara IV, PhDOn <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThisDayInHistory</a> in 2018, one of my favourite novelists, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UrsulaKLeGuin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UrsulaKLeGuin</a>, died. An ardent <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feminist</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anarchist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anarchist</a>, and subversive, LeGuin wrote to remind us a better world is possible. If you haven't yet, go and read <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheDispossessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheDispossessed</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheLeftHandOfDarkness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheLeftHandOfDarkness</a>.

Joanne Fisher<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ursulakleguin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ursulakleguin</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ursula_k_le_guin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ursula_k_le_guin</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/TheDispossessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheDispossessed</a>

Catarina :mastodon_oops:Para quem está com dificuldades em manter a leitura de <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/OsDespojados" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OsDespojados</a> encontrei uma adaptação para rádio :ablobsmile: (parece que a adaptação para Tv também está para breve) <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Incunabulos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Incunabulos</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/TheDispossessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheDispossessed</a>🔗 <a href="https://www.sffaudio.com/cbc-the-vanishing-point-the-dispossessed-adapted-from-the-novel-by-ursula-k-le-guin/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sffaudio.com/cbc-the-vanishing-point-the-dispossessed-adapted-from-the-novel-by-ursula-k-le-guin/</a>

Catarina :mastodon_oops:In the portuguese speaking mastodon community we have a book club, in September & October we are reading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, the first time we picked a <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#book</a> from an non-portuguese speaker author. If you want to join in the discussion the hashtags are <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Incunabulos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Incunabulos</a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/OsDespojados" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OsDespojados</a>, and I just added <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/TheDispossessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheDispossessed</a> 📚 📖 📘

Steven PestanaFinally read The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin! Any recommendations for what I should <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/read" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#read</a> next? (of course, the rest of Le Guin's works) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SFF</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LeGuin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeGuin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciFi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scienceFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theDispossessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#theDispossessed</a>

Christopher LovegroveA discussion post for <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/UrsulaKLeGuin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UrsulaKLeGuin</a>'s magnificent 1974 novel <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/TheDispossessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheDispossessed</a> as part of a <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/LoveHain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoveHain</a> <a href="https://bookstodon.com/tags/UKLGsf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UKLGsf</a> readalong. <a href="https://wp.me/s2oNj1-hain6" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://wp.me/s2oNj1-hain6</a>

LordWoolamalooNew literary earrings from Cavatica Boutique on @Etsy , Ursula Le Guin, a Left Hand of Darkness & The Dispossessed book cover. Arrived beautifully wrapped & with wee badge of Left Hand too, lovely touch.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/jewelry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jewelry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/livres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#livres</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Etsy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Etsy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UrsulaLeGuin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UrsulaLeGuin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LeftHandOfDarkness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeftHandOfDarkness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TheDispossessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheDispossessed</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a>

River Wynters<a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/UrsulaLeGuin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UrsulaLeGuin</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quote</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/TheDispossessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheDispossessed</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anarchism</a>“A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.” Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

River Wynters<a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/UrsulaLeGuin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UrsulaLeGuin</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/Quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Quote</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/TheDispossessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheDispossessed</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/CapitalismAsReligion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CapitalismAsReligion</a> “He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal.” Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed.

Chad Jordahl :mtdiablo: :oski:"It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on."~Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Dispossessed"<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/UrsulaKLeGuin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UrsulaKLeGuin</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TheDispossessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheDispossessed</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a>

¬ne'er-do-well 🐕I would've liked to join wyrms.de because it's for those who want to read <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheDispossessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheDispossessed</a> by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UrsulaKLeGuin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UrsulaKLeGuin</a> but it's closed for registration :(

Tony Pennino<a href="https://mas.to/tags/7Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7Books</a> - <a href="https://mas.to/tags/novels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novels</a> - to know me: <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Ulysses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ulysses</a> - <a href="https://mas.to/tags/JamesJoyce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamesJoyce</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MansFate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MansFate</a> / <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LaConditionHumaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaConditionHumaine</a> - <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Andr%C3%A9Malraux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AndréMalraux</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AnotherCountry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AnotherCountry</a> - <a href="https://mas.to/tags/JamesBaldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamesBaldwin</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MrsDalloway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MrsDalloway</a> - <a href="https://mas.to/tags/VirginiaWoolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VirginiaWoolf</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TheMasterAndMargarita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheMasterAndMargarita</a> - <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MikhailBulgakov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MikhailBulgakov</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/GravitysRainbow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GravitysRainbow</a> - <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ThomasPynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThomasPynchon</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TheDispossessed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheDispossessed</a> - <a href="https://mas.to/tags/UrsulaKLeGuin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UrsulaKLeGuin</a> If you asked me tomorrow, this would change. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/7bookstoknowme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#7bookstoknowme</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/novels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novels</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LitStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LitStudies</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/litstudies" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@litstudies</a>

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