yunity book club

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?

However we want to.. There is no right nor wrong way. We could meet up in analog or the online world and discuss what we have read. You can ask others what to read, if you need inspiration. You could ask others to read a certain work if you would like to discuss it. Invite others to share an experience with you! Write a review and share it. Do whatever you would like. Read read read!

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
Yassamine Mather - The tyranna of safe spaces, are safe space a good idea?, 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
Erlend Loe - Doppler, anticapitalism, humour, no link yet
Erlend Loe - Naive. Super., questioning the system, humour, 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
Hallgrimur Helgason - The Hitman's guide to housecleaning, "make love, not war", no link yet
Hallgrimur Helgason - Stormland, revolution, no link yet
Haruki Murakami - 1Q84 (triology), society/culture, 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
Neil Gaiman - American Gods, society/system/religion, no link yet
Neil Gaiman/Terry Prachet - Good Owens, humour, society/apocalyps, no link yet
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