[How do we develop] ways of perceiving therelationships between and among people, our pasts, our pasts’ legacies, our present lives and struggles, our environments, disciplines, and texts. (24)--Johnnella E. Butler, “Reflections on Borderlands and the Color Line.” (2000) "All the languages of heteroglossia ... are specific points of view on the world, forms for conceptualizing the worldinwords, specific worldviews, each characterized by its own objects, meanings, and values.--Bakhtin
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Andreas Eschbach: The Carpet Makers
Recommended fiction: a mosaic, interwoven SF short stories, with a strong anthropological focus ... that builds strength through the accumulating force of the life narratives of the book... much like the intricate obssessional absurd products of The Carpet Makers... a very chilling book at times.
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