The Dream and the Underworld
James Hillman
“When we wrong the dream, we wrong the soul.”
We were angry
On Trauma and Recovery
Beyond credibility
On Trauma and Recovery
Trauma and Recovery
Judith Herman
Herman’s canonical work focuses on the necessity of understanding trauma within a social and political context.
Hurry-up-quick!
On The Mismeasure of Man & The Word for World Is Forest
Self-exploiting workers
On Capitalism and the Death Drive & The Burnout Society
Capitalism and the Death Drive
Byung-Chul Han
A person dies, but capital is forever.
Waking the Moon
Elizabeth Hand
An ancient secret order finds itself up against its most powerful foe: the Moon Goddess has returned.
To live
On We, the Heartbroken, The Chairs Are Where the People Go & Circe
We, the Heartbroken
Gargi Bhattacharyya
“Heartbreak is the heart of all revolutionary consciousness.”
Apocalypse
Lizzie Wade
An apocalypse is always both an ending and a beginning.
Everything
On Reclaiming Work, The Problem with Work & The Burnout Society
Exit strategy
On Reclaiming Work & Cubed
Reclaiming Work
André Gorz
“We must dare to prepare ourselves for the Exodus from ‘work-based society’: it no longer exists and will not return.”
The other side
On Ammonite, Lifehouse & Everything for Everyone
Slow River
Nicola Griffith
Lore wakes up in an alley, naked, a huge gash running down her back, her identity implant—the only proof of her heritage in one of the world’s richest families—gone.
Ammonite
Nicola Griffith
Marguerite (“Marghe”) Taishan is about to step foot on the planet Jeep when she receives a warning: if she goes on, she will never come back.
Always
Nicola Griffith
Aud is back in Atlanta, teaching a self-defense class to a ragtag group of women, when one of her students takes her lessons in a direction she didn’t imagine.
Stay
Nicola Griffith
Aud Torvingen is tucked away in a remote cabin, grieving and alone.