Katie Stone Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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SF, feminism, utopianism, childhood. Co-founder of @UtopianActs and Beyond Gender. She/her. Views own
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Amitav GhoshKatie StoneHe talks about the impetus behind it coming from China Miéville's injunction to 'utopia as hard as we can', as well as an engagement with Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement #USS22
Paperback, 2017
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Brave New World
Aldous HuxleyKatie StoneUrsula discusses Elton's novel as embodying Zygmunt Bauman's understanding of the do-it-yourself panopticon where the desire for privacy is unthinkable. Elton riffs off of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World by focusing his dystopia on entertainment #USS22
Paperback, 2006
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Sorry to Bother You: Original Screenplay
Boots RileyKatie StoneNew video on Boots Riley's Sorry To Bother You and time in dystopias. This is such a good film, I like it more every time I see it. If you want to understand how capitalism distorts workers' time (and bodies/minds) this is the one. Check it out! https://t.co/D4VnWAVTBf https://t.co/PUlrDdGIsE
Paperback, 2018
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: The Complete Text - Inclusive of Notes
Max WeberKatie StoneHe argues that Weber's bleakness, his emphasis on disenchantment, has affinities with dystopianism. Some of these affinities can be located in Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism #USS22
Paperback, 2020
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The Blood of the Vampire
Florence MarryatKatie StoneTo attempt to navigate this she draws on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's understanding of paranoid and reparative reading and applies this framework to Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire (1897) #VampireRecovery
Paperback, 2009
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Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation
Tom MoylanKatie StoneHeather reads the show's utopianism through Tom Moylan's Becoming Utopian - showing how it models possibilities of direct action and moving in excess of the darkness of the lived moment (Ernst Bloch) #USS22
Paperback, 2022
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Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. ButlerKatie StoneNew video in my series Welcome To... Dystopia. This one is about the book that got me into dystopianism, the one, the only, Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. It is also about utopia as an integral part of dystopianism. Hope you like it! https://t.co/bWXUqDuFe8 https://t.co/ffPAsWG1D2
Paperback, 2019
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News from Nowhere
William MorrisKatie StoneSheryl sees Jemisin's world as structured around the changeability of even the earth itself. She connects this to Miguel Abensour's reading of William Morris' News from Nowhere and the theory of the education of desire #USS22
Paperback, 2018
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How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
Eduardo KohnKatie StoneHalberstam now moves into 'unworlding' as an already developed field - highlighting in particular Eduardo Kohn's How Forests Think where Kohn tries to read the semiotic systems of the forest as nonhuman languages #USS22
Paperback, 2013
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Another Now
Yanis VaroufakisKatie StoneThe next paper is from Sean Seeger - “A living reminder of William Morris”: Yanis Varoufakis’s Another Now and the Utopian Socialist Novel. Sean begins by thanking us for staying till the end (you're welcome) #USS22
Paperback, 2021
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