This page is about yunity book club - a new initiative created from the need of exploring the world of books, articles and writings in general, and doing it in a collaboration - doing it together, sharing the experience of this amazing jungle of letters. On this site you can find why, how, what and when. Feel free to also join the corresponding channel #book_club on Slack.
why?
Why study together? Because sharing the world of the written word is awesome! That is what yunity book_club is about - reading, discussing, experimenting and gaining new knowledge together, collect new perspectives, widen your horizon, enjoy the beauty of semantics! It is an opportunity to read fiction and non-fiction, philosophical, scientific and community related writings.
We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world — in short, we become more critical and more capacious in our thinking and our acting - Judith butlerÂ
how?
what?
Whatever we would like; fiction, nonfiction, theory, novels, cartoons, poetry, articles, ypu name it! If you think it's relevant and worth reading, then others will probably agree.. Lets do it!
Proposed literature in alphabetic order (author - title, theme, link):
Nonfiction:
- Jean-Luc Nancy - The Inopperative Community, philosophy/community, link
- Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality I-III, philosophy/power, no link yet
- Plato - The Republic, philosophy, link
Fiction:
- Aldous Huxley - Brave new world + The island, dystopia/utopia, no link yet
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Herland, feminism/anarchism, no link yet
- Elizabeth Mann Borghese - My own utopia, utopia/dystopia
- E. M. Foster - ?, anarchism, no link yet
- George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-four + Animal farm, anarchism/dystopia/utopia, no link yet
- George Woodcock - ?, anarchism, no link yet
- H. G. Wells - Men like gods, anarchism, no link yet
- Joanna Russ - The female man, feminism/anarchism, no link yet
- Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's travels, anarchism, no link yet
- Marge Piercy - Women on the edge of time, feminism/anarchism, no link yet
- Mary Gentle - Golden witchbreed, anarchism/dystopia, no link yet
- Samuel Butler - Erewhen, anarchism, no link yet
- Suzy McKee Charnas - Walk to the end of the world + Motherlines, dystopia/utopia, no link yet
- Thomas More - Utopia, utopia, no link yet
- William Golding - ?, anarchism, no link yet
- William Morris - News from nowhere, anarchism, no link yet
when?
Great, funny, weird, unhelpful, amazing, stupid, unuseful links:
friktionmagasin.dk (danish magasin, writings in english)
tidskrift.dk (danish magasin, english articles)
