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Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In 'Whose Story Is This?' Rebecca Solnit appraises(...)
Whose story is this? Essays at the intersection
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Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In 'Whose Story Is This?' Rebecca Solnit appraises what's emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are.
Critical Theory
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In the past decade, Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro—aided by local writers, artists, historians, urbanists, ethnographers, and cartographers—have compiled three atlases that have radically changed the way we think about place. Each atlas provides a vivid, complex look at the multi-faceted nature of a city—San Francisco, New Orleans, and New(...)
Inifinite cities: a trilogy of Atlases. San Francisco, New Orleans, New York
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In the past decade, Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro—aided by local writers, artists, historians, urbanists, ethnographers, and cartographers—have compiled three atlases that have radically changed the way we think about place. Each atlas provides a vivid, complex look at the multi-faceted nature of a city—San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York—as experienced by its different inhabitants, replete with the celebrations and contradictions that make up urban life.
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L'art de marcher
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Au fil de son étude, Rebecca Solnit évoque les pèlerinages, les marches de protestation, les flâneries urbaines, les promenades propices à la réflexion des écrivains ou des philosophes, le nomadisme des comédiens et des musiciens, les voyages à pied des compagnons du devoir et différentes pérégrinations qui, parfois, constituent de véritables rites de passage. S'appuyant(...)
L'art de marcher
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Au fil de son étude, Rebecca Solnit évoque les pèlerinages, les marches de protestation, les flâneries urbaines, les promenades propices à la réflexion des écrivains ou des philosophes, le nomadisme des comédiens et des musiciens, les voyages à pied des compagnons du devoir et différentes pérégrinations qui, parfois, constituent de véritables rites de passage. S'appuyant sur des citations et des anecdotes, elle montre à quel point on saisit le monde à travers le corps, et le corps à travers le monde.
Journeys
Garder l'espoir
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Qui aurait pu imaginer, il y a vingt ans, que le mur de Berlin tomberait ? Et que Nelson Mandela deviendrait le président d'une Afrique du Sud transformée en profondeur ? Qui aurait deviné que les Indiens du Mexique se révolteraient et que les débats sur l'écologie seraient suivis, un peu partout dans le monde, de réels progrès ? L'écrivain et activiste politique Rebecca(...)
Garder l'espoir
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Qui aurait pu imaginer, il y a vingt ans, que le mur de Berlin tomberait ? Et que Nelson Mandela deviendrait le président d'une Afrique du Sud transformée en profondeur ? Qui aurait deviné que les Indiens du Mexique se révolteraient et que les débats sur l'écologie seraient suivis, un peu partout dans le monde, de réels progrès ? L'écrivain et activiste politique Rebecca Solnit plaide, dans cette analyse des grands mouvements contestataires récents (de 1989 à nos jours) pour un changement radical de notre point de vue : Et si l'espoir était de mise ?
Critical Theory
Orwell's roses
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Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to(...)
Orwell's roses
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Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this understudied aspect of Orwell’s life explores his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her Stalinism, Stalin’s obsession with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid’s critique of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' that completes her portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as a reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.
Literature and poetry
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Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed, prizewinning books of nonfiction, brings her writing to the essays in Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness. As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit’s concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical style she combines commentary on history, justice, war and peace, and explorations of place,art and(...)
The encyclopedia of trouble and spaciousnes
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Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed, prizewinning books of nonfiction, brings her writing to the essays in Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness. As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit’s concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical style she combines commentary on history, justice, war and peace, and explorations of place,art and community, all while writing with the lyricism of a poet to achieve incandescence and wisdom. Gathered here are celebrated iconic essays along with little-known pieces that create a powerful survey of the world we live in, from the jungles of the Zapatistas in Mexico to the splendors of the Arctic. This collection tours places as diverse as Haiti and Iceland; movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring; an original take on the question of who did Henry David Thoreau's laundry; and a searching look at what the hatred of country music really means.
Architectural Theory