“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Sunday, November 1, 2015

Paolo Bacigalupi at Rice Tomorrow

He wrote this Blade Runner-ish dystopian fiction called The Windup Girl, which we've been studying in our intro to environmental humanities class. He's going to be doing a reading, see:


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