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 butler
how?
what?
Whatever we would like; fiction, nonfiction, theory, novels, cartoons, poetry, articles, you 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:
- Albert Camus - The Myth of Sysiphus, link
- Aristotle - Politics, philosophy, link
- Erich Fromm - The Art of Loving, philosophy/psychology/sociology, link
- Erich Fromm - To Have or To Be?, philosophy/psychology/sociology, no link yet
- Georg Simmel - The philosophy of money, philosophy/psychology/sociology, link
- Hartmut Rosa - Resonance: A Sociology of the Relationship to the World, sociology, no link yet
- Henry David Thoreau - Civil disobedience, political philosophy, link
- Henry David Thoreau - Walden, simple living in nature, link
- Jacques Derrida - Différance, philosophy/deconstruction, link
- Jacques Derrida - The gift of death: Whom to give to, philosophy/unconditional sharing, no link yet
- Jean-Luc Nancy - The Inopperative Community, philosophy/community, link
- Jean-Luc Nancy - Being singular plural, philosophy/being-with, link
- Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, philosophy/feminism, link
- Michel Foucault - Discourse and Truth: the Problematization of Parrhesia, philosophy/discourse/truth, link
- MIchel Foucault - Of other spaces: Utopias and heterotopias, philosophy/freespaces, link
- Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality I-III, philosophy/powerstructures, no link yet
- Plato - The Republic, philosophy, link
- William Godwin - Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness, philosophy/anarchist society, link
Fiction:
- Aldous Huxley - Brave new world, dystopia/utopia, no link yet
- Aldous Huxley - The island, dystopia/utopia, no link yet
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Herland, feminism/anarchism, no link yet
- Elizabeth Mann Borghese - My own utopia, utopia/dystopia, no link yet
- E. M. Foster - ?, anarchism, no link yet
- George Orwell - Animal farm, anarchism/dystopia/utopia, no link yet
- George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-four, anarchism/dystopia/utopia, no link yet
- George Woodcock - ?, anarchism, no link yet
- H. G. Wells - Men like gods, anarchism, no link yet
- H. G. Wells - The Time Machine, capitalism turned into evolution, link
- Joanna Russ - The female man, feminism/anarchism, no link yet
- Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's travels, anarchism, no link yet
- Juli Zeh - Unterleuten, modern social novel, 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
- Mary Wollstonecraft - Maria: or, The wrongs of Women, link
- Samuel Butler - Erewhen, anarchism, no link yet
- Suzy McKee Charnas - Motherlines, dystopia/utopia, no link yet
- Suzy McKee Charnas - Walk to the end of the worlds, dystopia/utopia, no link yet
- Thomas More - Utopia, utopia, no link yet
- Ursula Le Guin - The dispossessed, link
- William Godwin - Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams, anarchism/society, link
- William Golding - ?, anarchism, no link yet
- William Morris - News from nowhere, anarchism, no link yet
when?
Great, funny, weird, unhelpful, amazing, stupid, unuseful links:
existentialcomics.com
libcom.org
Anarchist_Archives
theanarchistlibrary.org
friktionmagasin.dk (danish magasin, writings in english)
wildgender.com
tidskrift.dk (danish magasin, english articles)