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maddalenafragnito · 3 years ago

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PRATICHE DI RESISTENZA IMPRODUTTIVA, DESTINI INCROCIATI E ALTRI PIACERI

Workshop a @postosegreto.it

Nell'epoca del capitale la violenza diventa il comune denominatore dei rapporti culturali: dalla devastazione ambientale al patriarcato, passando per lo sfruttamento di classe, il razzismo e l'imperialismo, le forme del capitale sono forme della violenza, e viceversa. Nel Workshop di tre giorni guidato da Maddalena Fragnito a Posto Segreto, tenteremo di mettere in crisi questo paradigma attraverso un esperimento di autoformazione collettiva. Quali relazioni, pratiche di cura e forme di autodifesa e protezione tra umani e non umani nascono dall'analisi degli intrecci tra diversi livelli di oppressione? Aprire le maglie della violenza capitalista esige però un surplus di immaginazione, per questo passeremo attraverso il dispositivo dei tarocchi e ci chiederemo quali sono gli arcani che abbiamo - quelli che vorremmo avere - quelli di cui abbiamo bisogno per fare spazio a mondi più vivibili.

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Le questioni che abbiamo discusso durante il workshop toccano gli ambiti del femminismo marxista (in particolare le teorie emerse dal gruppo del salario domestico), del femminismo nero (Audre Lorde, bell hooks, June Jordan tra le altre), dell'etica della cura (in particolare i crip studies e le etnografie in campo medico, come quelle di Annemarie Mol), della medicina critica (dai processi di deistituzionalizzazione – i Basaglia – al ruolo della medicina nel capitalismo – Giulio Maccacaro, Ivar Oddone, Ivan Illich tra gli altri), infine dei feminist STS Science and Technology Studies) tra cui Anna Tsing, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Michelle Murphy, Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, Lynn Margulis tra le altre.

1) qui una playlist di libri raccolti intorno al tema della cura (ENG: https://syllabus.pirate.care/_preview/library/BROWSE_LIBRARY.html#/search/tags/commoningcare?page=1)

2) qui il sillabo integrale di #piratecare (ENG: https://syllabus.pirate.care/)

3) qui la playlist di Medicina e Potere, trenta volumi editi da Feltrinelli negli anni '70 a cura di Giulio Maccacaro (ITA: http://medicinapotere.memoryoftheworld.org/)

4) qui gli audio delle lezioni di Traficantes de Suenos, uno spazio a Madrid (ESP: https://soundcloud.com/traficantesdesue-os/albums)

5) qui due libri che ho coeditato: Ecologie della cura. Prospettive transfemministe, 2021 (ITA: https://www.orthotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/FRAGNITO-TOLA_INSIDE.pdf); Cure ribelli. Tecnologie aperte per una cura come bene comune, 2019 (ITA: https://www.academia.edu/40392507/Cure_Ribelli_Tecnologie_aperte_per_una_cura_come_bene_comune; ENG: https://www.academia.edu/40391315/Rebelling_with_Care_Exploring_open_technologies_for_commoning_healthcare)

6) qui l'articolo che avevo promesso a Carol (ITA https://comune-info.net/la-sospensione-del-presente/?utm_source=pocket_mylist)

7) qui la lettrice di tarocchi queer che avevo promesso a Fabiola (ENG: https://littleredtarot.com/learn-tarot/library/majors/)

8) qui alcune zine italiane su relazioni non monogame (ITA: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11jawOQkiePavq5PoUJAdLj4G4Qgm0x1w?usp=sharing)

Prime immagini del nuovo mazzo di tarocchi (Gli Arcani della Riproduzione?) fatto durante il workshop a Posto Segreto, presto il lavoro integrale:

#care #violence #capitalism #postosegreto #tarot

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sunskate · 2 years ago

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Junior Ice Dance 2022-23 season

Anita Straub/Andreas Straub (AUT): RD: Carmen Goett- La Llorona; John Powell- Assassin's Tango; Embrujo Mestizo Music- El Vito FD: Grease (coaches: Veronika Musilova, Pavel Laurencik, choreo: ?)

Catharina Guedes Tibau/Cayden Oliver Dawson (BRA): RD: Fermin Spanish Guitar- Spanish Waltz; Juan Jose Mosalini- Bordoneo Y 900 FD: Bill Medley, Jennifer Warnes - The Time of My Life; Otis Redding- These Arms of Mine; The Contours- Do You Love Me (coaches: Carol Lane, Juris Razgulajevs, Marc-André Servant; choreo: Juris Razgulajevs, Marc-André Servant)

Nadiia Bashynska/Peter Beaumont (CAN): RD: FD: Red Violin soundtrack - John Corigliano; Jules Massenet- Elegie

Chaima Ben Khelifa/Everest Zhu (CAN): RD: Cirque du Soleil- Ardor Oris; Taalbi Brothers- Aroul FD: Chae Bo Hoon, Jeong Gwng Hyun, Nau Lee (Karl Hugo)- Stop Crying Your Heart Out (coaches: Shawn Winter, Elise Hamel, Francois-Xavier Ouellette choreo: Mylene Lamoureux, Francois-Xavier Ouellette, Charlie White)

Marianne Hubert/William Oddson (CAN): RD: Ostros Aires and Pepe Romero- Perro Viejo and Farrucas FD: Cody Fry- Photograph (coach: Tyler Myles; choreo: Tyler Myles and Mylene Girard)

Dana Sabatini-Speciale/Buelow (CAN): RD: Milva and The Tango Group- La Cumparsita; FD: Greatest Showman - Tightrope, A Million Dreams (coach: Mitch Islam, choreo: Mitch Islam, Kelly Johnson)

Layla Veillon/Alexander Brandys (CAN): RD: Johannes Linstead- Sangre Del Toro; Per Storby- The Swan Crash Concert: Still Life- The Blood FD: Dear Evan Hansen- You Will Be Found (coaches: Scott Moir, Alma Moir; choreo: Sheri Moir, Cara Moir)

Hailey Yu/Brendan Giang (CAN): RD: Gotan Project- Epoca; King Chronic vs Barrio Populaire- Tango Tanssimaan FD: Craid Pruess- Punjabi Wedding Song; Raj Ghatak- Love's Never Easy; Ganesh (coaches and choreo: Megan Wing, Aaron Lowe)

Xinyi Liu/Tianyi Liu (CHN): RD: Otros Aires; Jesse Cook- Flamenco FD: Christina Aguilera- Say Something (coaches: Guiyu Huang, Ting Li, Linshu Song; choreo: Pascal Denis, Linshu Song)

Natalie Blaasova/Filip Blaas (CZE): RD: Tango Jointz, Bellma Cespedes- Tango D'Amor FD: Michael Jackson (coach/choreo: Karolina Prochazkova)

Katerina Mrazkova/Daniel Mrazek (CZE): RD: Forever Tango, Eduardo Rovirra- A Evaristo Carriego; Pascual Marquina Narro, Andre Rieu- Espana Cani FD: Man in the Iron Mask (coaches: Matteo Zanni, Barbora Reznickova; choreo: Matteo Zanni)

Izabella Sukhovskaya/Trevor Sebastian Malkasaari (EST): RD: FD: (coaches: Julia Semjonova, Valdis Mintals)

Celina Fradji/Jean-Hans Forneaux (FRA): RD: Tango for 3 arr Hugo Chouinard- Gringo Nr. 1 FD: Dead Can Dance- Agape; Rajna- Epidauros; Bachar Mar-Khalife- Ya Nas (coaches: Karine Arribert, Mahil Chantelauze; choreo: ?)

Lou Koch/Ivan Melnyk (FRA): RD: Misia- Do Retorno I; Bajofondo and Mala Rodriguez- El Anden FD: Swan Lake (coaches and choreo: Karine Arribert-Narce, Mahil Chantelauze)

Ambre Perrier Gianesini/Samuel Blanc Klaperman (FRA): RD: Forever Tango- A Evaristo Carriego; Taalbi Brothers Music- Uccen FD: Arctic Monkeys- Do I Wanna Know?; Hooverphonic- Mad About You; Jet- Are You Gonna Be My Girl (coaches: Marien De La Asuncion, Olivier Shoenfelder, Muriel Zazoui, Emi Hirai; choreo: Marien De La Asuncion and Olivier Shoenfelder

Seclet Monchot/Chardain (FRA): RD: Piazzolla - Oblivion; Maria Mezcle- Maestros FD: Queen's Gambit (coach and choreo: Fabian Bourzat

Phebe Bekker/James Hernandez (GBR): RD: Roni Benise- The Duel, Tango de Besame, Concerto de Espana FD: Four Seasons (coaches: Nicholas Buckland, Penny Coomes, Zhanna Palagina choreo: Penny Coomes, Nicholas Buckland, Chellie Fig)

Sophia Bushell/Alex Lapsky (GBR): RD: Bellma Cespedes- Tango D'Amor; Taalbi Brothers- Uccen FD: Greatest Showman- The Greatest Show, Never Enough, This is Me (coaches: Phillip Poole, Karen Quinn; choreo: Phillip Poole)

Slatter/Ongay-Perez (GBR): RD: Gotan Project- El Capitalismo Foraneo; Roni Benise- Malaguena FD: Nick Glennie-Smith- Heart of a King (coach: Philippa Towler-Green)

Laura Hegarty/Kevin Hegarty (IRL): RD: Mala Rumba- Sombrero Blanco (Mask of Zorro); John Powell- Assassin's Tango (Mr. & Mrs. Smith) FD: Sarah Brightman- Harem (coaches: ?)

Elizabeth Tkachenko/Alexei Kiliakov (ISR): RD: Argon Bregovic- Ausencia, Presidente FD: Woodkid- Run Boy Run, Guns for Hire (coaches: Alexei Kiliakov, Elena Novak; choreo: Elena Novak, Alexei Kiliakov, Jimmie Manners)

Nao Kida/Masaya Morita (JPN): RD: Jaime Wilensky, Andres Linetzky, Ernesto Toca- Sentimientos; Juan Carlos Caceres, Romeo Music- Tango FD: Steve Jablonsky- Red Notice; Theodore Shapiro, Craig Wedren, Ivy Levon- Who Can You Trust; Ryan Shore- Rogue (coach/choreo: Cathy Reed)

Hannah Lim/Ye Quan (KOR): RD: Primavera Portena- Milonga FD: Saint-Saēns- Danse Macabre (coaches: Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer, Benjamin Brisebois, Pascal Denis, Josée Piché; choreo: Romain Haguenauer(RD), Marie-France Dubreuil(FD)

Milla O'Brien/Laurin Wiederkehr (SUI): RD: Chi Chi- Alice's Tango; Didulia- Flamenco FD: Sanjay Leela Bhansali- Nagada Sang Dhol; Alka Yagnik- Ringa Ringa; Panjabi MC- Mundian to Bach Ke (all arr. Maxime Rodriguez) (coaches: Cornelia Leroy, Alisa Agafonova)

Elliana Peal/Ethan Peal (USA): RD: Otro Aires- Otro Noches En La Viruta; Gypsy Kings- Bamboleo FD: Halo (coach/choreo: Robert Peal)

Vanessa Pham/Jonathan Rogers (USA): RD: Jerzy Petersburski- To Ostatnia Niedziela; Taalbi Brothers- Uccen FD: Scheherazade (coach: Roman Zaretsky, choreo: Igor Shpilband, Pasquale Camerlengo, Roman Zaretsky)

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signourneybooks · 6 years ago

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Intro

You know sometimes I like to challenge myself.

How to Play

This reading challenge consists of 3 sections. Fantasy, Sci-Fi and General for a total of 52 prompts which comes down to about 1 book a week.

You can do 1, 2 or all 3 sections.

With each section you are allowed 1 Double-Up. Double-Up means you can use 1 book for 2 prompts. Preferred is not to at all but if for some reason you are struggling with time or a prompt you can.

In the general sections you can use both fantasy and sci-fi books but not other genres.

Graphic novels, comics, audiobooks and novella’s are allowed. It is all reading in my book.

Rereads count.

You can move the books around throughout the year if things fit better elsewhere and all.

You can step into this reading challenge at any point. I’m starting it in January 2019 but in reality this is a reading challenge you can fit for yourself in anyway you like. If you want to start in May and end April the year after, that is totally fine.

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I don’t know if people want to join me but I would love to interact with each other if you do. You can participate anyway you like, with goodreads, twitter, instagram or your blog. I don’t require a sign-up post but I would appreciate if you boosted this.

If there are a nice group of people we can see if we can do a twitter dm group or an fb group or something to chat with each other on how to fill the prompts. 🙂

The widget won’t go into the post because wp sucks so here is the direct link.

If You Need Inspiration: Find Some Fitting Books Per Prompt Here

I figured some of you might like to have a list of options for each prompt so here we are. I’ve read a portion of these, others are on my own TBR and others I just know fit with the prompt. These are in no way meant as real recommendations, just those that fit the prompt. No links because do you see how many books I mention haha.

Fantasy

Classic Fantasy The Dragon Bone Chair by Tad Williams / Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin / The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien / Narnia by C.S Lewis /

Magic School Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling / Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce / A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. le Guin / The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss / Carry On by Rainbow Rowell / Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones / The Magicians by Lev Grossman / The Novice by Taran Matharu

Necromancers Darkest Powers by Kelley Armstrong / Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride / Sabriel by Garth Nix / The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco / Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews / Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard / Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh / Skullduggery Pleasant by Derek Landry / Give the Dark My Love by Beth Revis

PTSD Witchmark C.L. Polk / The First Law by Joe Abercrombie /

Dragons The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli / Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb / The Copper Promise by Jen Williams / Talon by Julie Kagawa / Seraphina by Rachel Hartman / A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin / Eragon by Christopher Paolini / Eon by Alison Goodman / Temeraire by Naomi Novik / A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan / How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell / Wings of Fire by Tui T. Sutherland / Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aron

Fairytale Retelling Uprooted by Naomi Novik / A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas / Ash by Melinda Lo / Forests of a Thousand Lanters by Julie C. Dao / The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh / The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden / Thorn by Intisar Khanani / To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

Grimdark Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence / Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson / Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin / A Crown for Cold Silver by Alex Marshall / Skullsworn by Brian Stavely / Red Sister by Mark Lawrence / The Black Prism by Brent Weeks

Ghosts Lockwood & Co. by Jonathan Stroud / The Graveyard Queen by Amanda Stevens / City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab / The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman / The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater / Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

Uncommon Fantasy Creatures So not the usual werewolf, dragons, vampires and the like Bones and Bourbon by Dorian Graves (Huldra) / The Golem and the Djinni by Helene Wecker (Golem) / Steel & Stone by Annette Marie (Incubus) / Troll Fell by Katherine Langrish (Trolls) / The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (Goblins)

Shapeshifters Moon Called by Patricia Briggs / Written in Red by Anne Bishop / Stray by Rachel Vincent / Soulless by Gail Carragher / The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong /

Gods Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan / Magnus Chase by Rick Riordan / Aru Shah at the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi / American Gods by Neil Gaiman / The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin / The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter / The Chaos of Stars by Kiersten White / Furyborn by Claire LeGrand / Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor / Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman / Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova / The Gospel of Loki by Joanne Harris

Animal (or in Animal Form) Companion(s) Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb / The Dragon Bone Chair by Tad Williams / Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh / Spellslinger by Sebastien de Castell / The Summoner by Taran Matharu

Matriarchy Seven Realms by Cinda Williams Chima / Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake / Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop / Dragonflight by Anne McAffrey / The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells / The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley

Set in Our World The Others by Anne Bishop / Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling / Shadowhunters by Cassandra Clare / American Gods by Neil Gaiman / Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning / Psy-Changeling by Nalini Singh / Moon Called by Patricia Briggs

Witches Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt / The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco / A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness / Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett / The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy / Uprooted by Naomi Novik / Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

Magical Law Enforcement Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling / Rivers of London by Ben Aaronvitch / The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher / The Golem’s Eye by Jonathan Stroud / Lockwood & Co. by Jonathan Stroud

Thief The Legend of Eli Monpress by Rachel Aaron / The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch / Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo / The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima / The Death of the Necromancer by Martha Wells

Pirates Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo / Magic of Blood and Sea by Cassandra Rose Clarke / Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch / The Nature of a Pirate by A.M. Dellamonica

Portal Fantasy Child of a Hidden Sea by A.M. Dellamonica / The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis / Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll / Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire / The Magicians by Lev Grossman

Warrior Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin / Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien / Night Angel by Brent Weeks / Half a King by Joe Abercrombie /

Sci-Fi

On a Different Planet A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers / Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray / The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin / The Martian by Andy Weir / Dune by Frank Herbert / Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Space Ship The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers / The Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers / An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon / Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Addams

Artificial Intelligence Point of View A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers / I, Robot by Isaac Asimov / 2001: A Space Odessey by Arthur C. Clarke / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Kick

Proto Sci-Fi As Frankenstein is seen as the first sci-fi novel all books prior to that that seem to be sci-fi are called proto sci-fi but anything before H.G. Wells will count here as it seems to cause some discussions. New Atlantis by Francis Bacon / Frankenstein by Mary Shelley / The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson / From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne /

Alien The Fifth Wave by Rick Riordan / The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Addams / The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells / Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Time Travel The Time Machine by H.G. Wells / Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier / Passenger by Alexandra Bracken / The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig / The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma / Invictus by Ryan Graudin

Utopia The Dispossed by Ursula K. le Guin / Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel / Andromeda by Ivan Efremov / The Giver by Lois Lowry

Games/Gaming/Virtual Reality Warcross by Marie Lu / Armada by Ernest Cline / Otherland by Tad Williams / In Real Life by Cory Doctorow / Unplugged by Donna Freitas

Hive (Mind) The Shadow over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft / Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie / City of Broken Magic by Mirah Bolender

Steampunk Soulless by Gail Carrigher / Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve / Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld / Boneshaker by Cherie Priest / Lady of Devices by Shelley Adina

Super Powers The Reckoners by Brandon Sanderson / Lorien Legacies by Pittacus Lore / Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee / Nimona by Noelle Stevenson / The Runaways by Brian K. Vaughan

Science Better known as heavy sci-fi if you go searching for books Foundation by Isaac Asimov / World War Z by Max Brooks / The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson / Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

Replicate/Replica Accelerando by Charles Stross / Replica by Lauren Oliver / Evolution by Stephen Baxter / The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

Space Colonization The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs / Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie / The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradburry

Mecha Themis Files by Sylvain Neuvel / Gundam Wing by Haijme Hatate / Dreadnought by Cherie Priest

Space Creatures/Beasts Mistworld by Simon Green / Dune by Frank Herbert / Alien by Alan Dean Foster /

Teleportation Jumper by Stephen Gould / Timeline by Michael Crighton / The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter / The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Space Western The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury / Six-Gun Planet by John Yakes / Trigun by Yasuhiro Nightow / Those Left Behind by Joss Whedon / Cowboy Bebop by Yutaka Nanten

The Moon The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer / Moonseed by Stephen Baxter / Artemis by Andy Weir / Red Rising by Pierce Brown / The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells

Invasion Alien or Human The Andromedia Strain by Michael Crighton / Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout / The Lorien Legacies by Pittacus Lore / The Alien Years by Robert Silverberg / Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card / First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells / Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein

General

For this you can use sci-fi and fantasy where you can make them fit.

Satire Discworld by Terry Pratchett / Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams / The Portable Door by Tom Holt / Red Shirts by John Scalzi /

Novella Binty by Nnedi Okorafor / Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire / The Ghost Line by Andrew Neil Gray / The Girl Who Rules Fairyland – For a Little While by Catheryne M. Valente

Finish a Series For this you can read the other books for other prompts throughout this challenge and read the last one here or finish a series you previously started. Or you could just read a whole series for this prompt alone. Whatever you want haha.

Mental Health Stormlight Archives by Branden Sanderson (depression) / The Magicians by Lev Grossman (depression) / Witchmark by C.L Polk (PTSD) / Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (PTSD)

Disability * On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis (autism) / October Daye by Seanan McGuire (weelchair) *Kristen from Metaphors and Moonlight created a masterlist.

Set in Africa Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor / Zoo City by Lauren Beukes / The Famished Road by Ben Okri / Changa’s Safari by Milton J. Davis

Library Library is semi-important in the book Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor / Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine / The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman / The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins /

By a Woman of Color Nnedi Okorafor / N.K. Jemisin / Tomi Adeyemi / Julie Kagawa / Malinda Lo / Heidi Helig / to name only a few…

One Word Title / Under 500 Pages / Over 800 Pages / Published Before 1990 I don’t think I need to make a list for these, right?

If you have any recs for any of these categories (especially Disability, Mental Health, Set in Africa and PTSD) than please leave them down below.

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Dancing with Fantasy and Sci-Fi – A (2019) Reading Challenge + Bingo Cards Intro You know sometimes I like to challenge myself. How to Play This reading challenge consists of 3 sections.

#2019 reading challenge #Dancing with Fantasy and Sci-Fi #fantasy reading challenge #reading challenge #Sci-Fi reading challenge

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tonin-terets · 4 years ago

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Dunkin NHL "Making of" Dir. Peter Sluszka from Hornet on Vimeo.

In this spot for Dunkin', Hornet Director Peter Sluszka teamed up with our friends at BBDO New York, to create a series of stop-motion ads showcasing life inside the National Hockey League (NHL) bubble. With deft humor, a nostalgic throwback to table hockey games, and celebrity talent featuring NHL stars David Pastrňák of the Boston Bruins and T.J. Oshie of the Washington Capitals, Sluszka has scored a hat-trick in these spots. Since this was Dunkin's first-ever stop-motion work, we also went to great lengths to make the players come to life—developing nearly two dozen different, hand-painted heads for both Pastrňák and Oshie to bring their personal characteristics and facial expressions to life and taking 6-8 hours per shot.

Director Peter Sluszka Client Dunkin' Production Company Hornet Managing Director Hana Shimizu Head of Production Karen Lawler Head of Creative Development Kristin Labriola Production Supervisor Dez Stavracos Producer Trever Stewart Associate Producer Riley Spencer Senior Editor Anita Chao Assistant Editor Minseok Kim Production Coordinator Lotty Vigue Pre Production Storyboard Artist Sean Lattrell Character Designer Cat Rao Design Exploration Jennifer Ely Design Intern Tyler West Stop Motion Line Producer Joel Kretschman Director of Photography Ivan Abel VFX Supervisor John Harrison Motion Control Operator Richard Coppola Gaffer Michael Yetter BB Electric Chris Clarke Key Grip Balz Beillmann BB Grip Adam Lukens, Steven Ploe Art Director Tim McDonald Fabricator Peter Erickson, Maxwell Sorensen, Mikail Ekiz, Illya Smelansky, Camille Labarre, David Assel, Ben Kress, Nico Benenati, Argon Props Animator Mikail Ekiz, Matt Somma, Maxwell Sorensen Food Stylist Sandra White Food Stylist Asst. Dilara Orer Safety Officer Robert Berman Cleaning Tech Gerardo Ruiz Production Assistant Koren Harpaz Post Lead Compositor John Harrison Compositor Guilherme Ferreirinha, Xiaoxiao Tan, Ted Wiggin Color Honest Labor Color Colorist Shawn King Color Producer Alex Rochinski Audio Post Production Sound Lounge Audio Mixer Rob DiFondi Sound Designer Marshall Grupp Senior Producer Lauren Mullen Ad Agency BBDO NY Worldwide Chief Creative Officer David Lubars Executive Creative Director Doug Fallon Executive Creative Director Steven Fogel Creative Director Talon Gustafson Creative Director Brian Pinkley EVP, Group Executive Producer Diane Hill Senior Producer Mike Woodall Senior Music Producer Julia Millison Music Production Intern Katie Theobalds EVP, Senior Director Jim Santora VP, Account Director Carrie White Account Executive Griffin Heller Assistant Account Executive Sydney Doerge VP, Group Planning Director Marc Allen Client Dunkin’ Sr. Brand Manager Corie McNeil Associate Manager Briana Appel Manufacturing Partner Home Arcade Gam

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brajeshupadhyay · 5 years ago

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SpaceX Crew Dragon astronauts pack for historic undocking and splashdown

Crew Dragon astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken thanked their space station crewmates for a successful two-month visit and readied their SpaceX capsule for undocking Saturday, setting up a historic Gulf of Mexico splashdown Sunday afternoon.

“All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go,” Behnken tweeted.

All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go… #LandAmerica pic.twitter.com/FvyzeA58sb

— Bob Behnken (@AstroBehnken) August 1, 2020

It will be the first splashdown for U.S. astronauts in 45 years and the first entry, descent and landing of a piloted Crew Dragon spacecraft, one of the final steps before NASA can certify the SpaceX ferry ships for operational six-month flights to the space station.

“We’re about to embark on the the final portion of the journey,” Behnken said in a brief departure ceremony Saturday morning. “The hardest part was getting us launched. But the most important part is bringing us home.”

“I look forward to the test objectives of not only separating from the International Space Station smoothly, but then coming down to a nice splashdown off the Florida coast to come full circle with bringing that capability to launch astronauts again to the United States.”

With Hurricane Isaias threatening Florida’s East Coast, ruling out a splashdown off the coast from Jacksonville to Cape Canaveral, NASA and SpaceX managers met Saturday and tentatively cleared the crew for an on-time undocking Saturday and splashdown off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Sunday afternoon.

A final go/no-go weather review was expected shortly before undocking.

Crew Dragon astronauts Bob Behnken, front left, and Doug Hurley, front right, show off an American flag they plan to return to Earth that was left aboard the space station during the final shuttle mission in 2011. Also visible: Tremor, the toy dinosaur, that was given to Hurley and Behnken by their sons to serve as a reminder of home and as a zero-gravity indicator. Looking on were Expedition 63 crewmates Ivan Vagner, back left, commander Chris Cassidy, center, and Anatoly Ivanishin, back right.

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In the meantime, with favorable weather expected off Pensacola and a backup site near Panama City, Hurley and Behnken planned to undock from the space station’s forward port at 7:34 p.m., leaving Expedition 63 commander Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner behind.

After moving a safe distance away from the space station, Hurley and Behnken plan to monitor a series of computer-orchestrated thruster firings to fine-tune their orbit before going to bed around 11:40 p.m.

After a 7:40 a.m. Sunday wakeup call, the astronauts will work through a detailed pre-entry checklist before the Crew Dragon jettison’s its no-longer-needed trunk section around 1:45 p.m., exposing the capsule’s protective heat shield.

Then, starting around 1:50 p.m., the Crew Dragon’s forward thrusters are scheduled to fire for nearly 10 minutes, slowing the craft by about 105 mph, just enough to drop the far side of its orbit deep into the atmosphere.

A half-hour later, approaching the Gulf of Mexico from the southwest, the Crew Dragon is expected to plunge back into the discernible atmosphere, quickly slowing down as the heat shield endures temperatures higher than 3,000 degrees. Small drogue parachutes will then stabilize the capsule before four main parachutes unfurl at an altitude of about 6,000 feet.

Splashdown near Pensacola is expected around 2:41 p.m.

The SpaceX recovery ship Go Navigator will be stationed nearby carrying medical personnel, support crews and initial responders with “fast boats” who have trained to reach the spacecraft within minutes.

Within the hour, they are expected to stabilize and “safe” the capsule, haul it on board the Go Navigator, open the side hatch and help Hurley and Behnken out as they begin re-adjusting to gravity after two months in space.

Both astronauts said they expect a bit of nausea and possibly vomiting as they bob about in the capsule awaiting recovery. During an earlier interview aboard the station, Hurley joked, “there’s a pretty good likelihood that we may see breakfast twice on that particular day.”

The Crew Dragon spacecraft, docked to the space station’s forward port and extending to the far right in this image, is wrapping up a two-month-long test flight with a planned undocking Saturday night and splashdown Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico.

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In any case, after initial medical checks aboard the the recovery ship, the astronauts will be flown by helicopter to a nearby airport where a NASA jet will be waiting to fly them back to the Johnson Space Center in Houston for debriefing and reunions with family members.

Since the space shuttle’s retirement in 2011, NASA has relied on Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft to ferry U.S. and partner agency astronauts to and from the station at some $80 million per seat.

The Crew Dragon and, eventually, Boeing’s Starliner CST-100 capsules are intended to end that sole reliance on Russia while opening up low-Earth orbit to private-sector development.

SpaceX launched and recovered an unpiloted Crew Dragon capsule last year and carried out a dramatic in-flight abort, again unpiloted, earlier this year. That cleared the way for Hurley and Behnken to blast off on the program’s first piloted mission, a test flight known as Demo 2, on May 30.

“The DM-2 test flight is in some ways just two thirds complete,” Hurley said Saturday. “We did the ascent, the rendezvous and the docking, we completed our docked objectives and now is the entry, descent and splashdown phase.”

During the departure ceremony, Cassidy presented Hurley and Behnken with an American flag the crew of the final shuttle mission left aboard the lab complex in 2011. Hurley was the pilot of shuttle Atlantis for that final flight and “capturing the flag” marked a special moment.

The flag first flew in space aboard Columbia during the first shuttle mission in 1981 and if all goes well, it will be aboard NASA’s Orion capsule during a flight to the moon in the next few years.

“This flag has spent some time up here, on the order of nine years since we dropped it off on STS-135,” Hurley said. “So very proud to return this flag home and see what’s next for it on its journey to the moon.”

Also coming home is “Tremor,” the toy dinosaur that served as an ever-present zero-gravity indicator during the crew’s stay aboard the station. It was given to them by their sons, six-year-old Theo Behnken and 10-year-old Jack Hurley.

“My son and Doug’s son are really excited, not only to get their fathers back, but to get our apatosaurus, our zero-G indicator that they nominated to go with us on this historic mission,” Behnken said. “For Jack and Theo: Tremor, the apatosaurus, is headed home soon and he’ll be with your dads.”

Both men are married to astronauts. Hurley’s wife, Karen Nyberg, is retired from the astronaut corps, but Behnken’s wife, Megan McArthur, is in training to fly to the space station next year aboard the same Crew Dragon bringing her husband home Sunday.

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I'VE BEEN PONDERING WEALTH

If I encourage too many people to apply to Y Combinator suffer from a common problem: choosing a small, dark, noisy apartment in order to be successful. And put this kind of project. One is that individual rowers don't see any result from working harder. Louis Brandeis said We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few thousand people, the most accurate measure of the relative power of programming languages, is that source code will look unthreatening. So whatever it costs to establish a mediocre university, for an additional half billion or so you could have a great one. The companies that rule Silicon Valley now are all descended in various ways from Shockley Semiconductor. But even so I'd advise startups to pull a Meraki initially if they can just hire enough people it somehow will be. They work well enough in everyday life are fuzzy, and break down if pushed too hard. One is to ask yourself the question: what do you wish there was? Which they deserve because they're taking more risk. That's the absent-minded professor, who forgets to shave, or eat, or even perhaps look where he's going while he's thinking about some interesting question. In fact, it could actually be very profitable.

The other big driver of change is that startups are popping up like crazy, the number of big hits grow linearly with the total number of new startups? Wealth is not the only way to say whether something is really old or not is by looking at structural evidence, and structurally philosophy is young; it's still reeling from the unexpected breakdown of words. He didn't think he was starting a company? Now I'd go further: now I'd say it's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think you're smart enough to start a startup, though. If you're a founder, what you need to use a completely different kind of selling. Which means every teenage kid a wants a computer with an Internet connection, b has an incentive to figure out what you like is to look at what you enjoy as guilty pleasures. And it's not only programs that should be insanely great, but the pain of having this stupid controversy constantly reintroduced as the top one in my mind. If you're demoing something web-based database as a system to allow people to collaboratively leverage the value of the work done by small groups. Wealth is stuff we want: food, clothes, houses, cars, gadgets, travel to interesting places, and so its size is proportionate to risk. Pascal is too wimpy for systems programming. And yet eminent professors were writing books about them, and startups can operate from anywhere nowadays.

A complex macro may have to save many times its own length to be justified.1 Talent probably matters more in types of work that depend more on talent are always more admirable. Com, the new CEO wanted to switch to plan B if plan A isn't working. The failed startups you hear most about are the spectactular flameouts.2 And this form of list may be more useful in practice. The business model is just a guess, but my motives are purely selfish. No one after reading Aristotle's Metaphysics does anything differently as a result.3

Whereas if the next hot company didn't take VC at all. The scary thing about platforms is that there are a lot of wiggle room.4 Others, like mowing the lawn, or filing tax returns, only get worse if you put them off. If a fairly good hacker is worth $80,000 per year. When I was in grad school in Boston, a friend came to visit from New York. The other implication of the organic growth hypothesis is that succinctness is power, or is there something unique about it? If you sell your car, you'll get more for it. Most startups coming out of Demo Day wanted to raise. Intellectually, it is at least a pure one. In that form it only had a potential market of a few thousand people, the average rower is likely to be more readable than a line of Basic is likely to be pretty average. I describe it as an opportunity is that there is now a lot of obstacles.

When wealth is talked about in this context, it is often described as a pie. Whereas if investors seem hot, you can get is by selling your startup in the early versions of the list, because nearly all the founders are just out of college. I began with was that, except in pathological examples, I would be learning what was really what. They're responding to the market. Fortunately, more and more startups will. But there is a role for mathematical elegance: some kinds of elegance make programs easier to understand. You could have both now. You may notice a certain similarity between the Viaweb and Y Combinator logos. And the way founders end up in it is by comparison with other startups. Someone is going to read a lot of people, I like to work, just as a sailboat can sail closer to the Apple type than the Viaweb type. In other words, time-sharing is back. I understand why Berkeley is probably not an anomaly.

The acceleration would have been harder to. Venture investors, however, which makes me think I was wrong to emphasize demos so much before. Not necessarily. That has been the lesson for me: be careful what you let become critical to you. We should fix those things. Stripe delivered instant merchant accounts to its first users was that the founders manually signed them up for traditional merchant accounts behind the scenes. Well, server-based applications on Windows.

Most people who get rich through rent-seeking of various forms, and a third was acquired that we can't figure out how to make a fortune in finance. Young people don't want to be spending all your time talking to executives at cell phone companies, trying to arrange deals. If someone sat down and wrote a web browser that didn't suck a fine idea, by the way, the world would be that much richer. If by the next time you need to launch? You know what a throwaway program is: something you write quickly for some limited task. And if they do, they may find that founders have moved on. Even as high as 100. The Pebbles assembled the first several hundred watches themselves. Partly because there's so much work to be done by bad programmers is choosing the wrong platform. Yeah, sure, but first you have to go out and talk to a startup that's been operating for thousands of years.5 It has nothing to do with anything as complex as an image of a person, for example, will suddenly find that the house needs cleaning.

A stage. Try to get yourself to work on it. But if you're starting a startup down into the noise. That will tend to underestimate the power of something is how well it achieves its purpose, then the ambitious ones won't have many ambitious peers. One thing we can say, which are the most general truths? Errands are so effective at killing great projects that a lot of equally good startups that actually didn't happen. Ruby: Perl is a kludge. Why should language design be any different? Western philosophy really begins with Socrates, Plato, and particularly Aristotle, this tradition turned a corner. The main reason may be that they aren't. The advantage of a medium of exchange is that it isn't succinct enough, and when you did invest in a startup hub, because economically that's what startups are.6

Notes

There's comparatively little competition for mediocre ideas, just that if you're good you'll have to decide whether you're a YC startup you can help in deciding between success and failure, just those you can see the old version, I mean no more willing to put it here. Obviously, if your school sucks, where you currently are. The solution for this.

This must have been truer to the traditional peasant's diet: they had zero false positives caused by blacklists, I should add that none of your last round just converts into stock at the network level, and they unanimously said yes.

Which is fundraising.

There are situations in which only a few percent from an interview, I'd say the rate of improvement is more efficient: the separate condenser.

Possible exception: It's hard for us. Some urban renewal experts took a painfully long time. Founders are often surprised by this, but it's hard to say whether the 25 people have historically been so many people mistakenly think it might be a product of number of words: I remember about the prior probability of an FBI agent or taxi driver or reporter to being a train car that in New York. There may be the technology business.

It's hard to measure that turns out to be the right sort of things you want as an idea that was really only useful for one video stream.

Thanks to Marc Andreessen, Karen Nguyen, David Hornik, Sarah Harlin, many others, Marc Hedlund, Ivan Kirigin, Robert Morris, and Steve Melendez for sharing their expertise on this topic.

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Exciting Debuts from Ghostbusters, Star Trek™, Doctor Who, WWE® and More!

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Call this crass commercialism, call it a desperate promotional effort, call it marketing hype, call it silly and unnecessary, call it whatever you will. Regardless of what you call it – read it!

We have now produced 5 issues of the magazine since August of 2018. That’s a perfect number, because we are publishing quarterly.

With a couple of exceptions, every story and every article is NEW, contemporary content. We are not publishing pulp redux, we are not publishing “golden age science fiction”, we are not selecting stories to support a political agenda. In fact, we are not publishing anything that various and sundry are complaining about; we’re publishing good, solid, entertaining and thought-provoking modern science fiction. At least in the magazine. Check out our comprehensive list of the authors who have appeared in our pages, right below this enticing and attractive cover gallery:

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Volume 77 No 1

Volume 76 No 4

Volume 76 No 3

Volume 76 No 2

Volume 76 No 1

R. S. Belcher, Marie Bilodeau, Clara Blackwood, Ricky Brown, Elsa M. Carruthers, Adam-Troy Castro, Noah Chinn, Jack Clemons, Dave Creek, Marc A. Criley, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Julie Czerneda, Gary Dalkin, Paul Di Filippo, Roger Dutcher, Steve Fahnestalk, Jen Frankel, David Gerrold, Tanya Karen Gough, Sean Grigsby, Neal Holtschulte, Tyler Hagemann, G. Scott Huggins, Matthew Hughes, Kameron Hurley, Tatiana Ivanova, T. B. Jeremiah, Sandra Kasturi, Valerie Chantal Kaelin, Daniel M. Kimmel, Kathy Kitts, Mary Soon Lee, Paul Levinson, Francine P Lewis, Marina J Lostetter, Sally McBride, Jack McDevitt, Shirley Meier, Joanna Miles, M. J. Moores, Lena Ng, Wendy Nikel, Julie Novakova, Uche Ogbuji, Brad Preslar, Brian Rappatta, Amber Royer, Rudy Rucker, S. L. Saboviec, Darrell Schweitzer, Veronica Scott, Robert Silverberg, Cathy Smith, Rosemary Claire Smith, S. P. Somtow, Bud Sparhawk, Allen Steele, Jerri Hardesty, Drew Hayden Taylor, Matthew Timmins, R. Gene Turchin, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm.

We’ve got new guard and old guard, space opera and milSF and SF romance and hard SF and comedy SF and other sub-genre maestros in there; we’ve got award winners and nominees, new folks and old folks, we’ve got A GREAT MIX.

And we’ve got ART. Each of our authors gets a profile pic. Each of our stories gets a full page title illustration. There are cartoons throughout. (When was the last time you saw that?)

Our artists have so far included:

Austeja, Roberto Armas, Igor Avdeev, Tom Barber, Olivia Beelby, Renan Boe, Sean Chappell, Melisa Des Rosier, Vincent Di Fate, Phil Foglio, Wojciech Dudzinski, Jon Eno, Brad Foster, J.M. Frey, Gil Geolingo, Paolo Giari, John Grant, David Hardy, HMW, M.D. Jackson, Ngoc Lam, Amanda Makepeace, Richard Mandrachio, Britt Martin, Yoko Matsuoka, Ron Miller, Tom Miller, Ivan Montoya, Nizar, Chukwudi Nwaefulu, Anton Oxenuk, Olena Perekhrystiuk, Anthony Rhodes, Lianna Ribeiro, Armas Roberto, Tony Sart, Pratap Sharma, Dan Simon, Al Sirois, Steve Stiles, Matt Taggart, Tais Teng, Derek Whitaker, Cheyenne Wright

(All of our fiction is submitted via an anonymizing submission site; for those keeping track, we’re roughly 50/50 on male and female authors, roughly 75/25 male and female artists; our covers are 50/50 depictions as well. We continuously work on making the magazine representative, do out reach and continue to strive for that goal.)

As they say though, that is NOT all:

Our website (where you are right now)

is updated daily and features reviews, interviews, articles, opinion and more, and covers the entire history and spectrum of the SF/F/H genres, from Anime to a word beginning with ‘Z’ that represents comprehensive coverage of the subjects so near and dear to your hearts and imaginations. We are rapidly closing in on the publication of 10,000 posts, written by over 200 contributors, many of whom you are already familiar with. Ten thousand posts. At 1,000 words per post (by no means the average length of our pieces), we’re talking about more than ten million words of everything from silliness to seriousness and all of genre interest. At today’s averages, that’s over 100 SF novels worth of content (slightly fewer fantasy novels).

You could spend weeks in here reading what we have on offer. (Some do; we hope they are eating, resting and exercising properly.)

Done? No. Not by a long shot:

We are, in addition to publishing some of the best contemporary fiction, also mining the past. Specifically, Amazing Stories’s past, which, if you are new here, we will forgive you for not knowing stretches all the way back to 1926 and is synonymous with creating the science fiction genre as a genre, by offering the first magazine devoted solely to that genre (not to mention starting science fiction fandom within its pages as well).

We publish a line of annual anthologies in partnership with Futures Past Editions, one of the original e-book publishing firms. Each volume in the series features the best stories drawn from a year’s worth of magazine issues:

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Best of 1926

Best of 1927

Best of 1928

Best of 1929

Best of 1930

Best of 1940

Best of 1943

(Note: two editions are out of annual sequence because we wanted to support the Retro Hugo Awards for those years. We’re busily filling in the gaps.)

…aaaaand

we accompany that line of anthologies with novels under the Amazing Stories Classics line –

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Classic Novel 1

Classic Novel 2

aaaaand supplement that all with a growing line of facsimile issues of important and interesting editions –

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Facsimile Annual

Facsimile 35h Anniversary

Facsimile September 1943

Facsimile May 1943

We’ve also got a comic book

and, an entire line of posters reproducing the covers created by Frank R. Paul

Drink some tea or coffee or one of those awful energy drinks, there’s still MORE:

We have a Podcast – The Gernsback Machine – helmed by editor Ira Nayman

We have a store where you can order all of the above

We have a comprehensive (!) events calendar that event organizers can add to and is searchable by date, type of convention and location

and…

well, I know I’m forgetting stuff, like T-shirts and Coffee Mugs, not to mention other stuff, but you all are probably saturated by now, so I will leave you all with this:

It’s all Amazing. Amazing Stories that is.

Wait, wait! Despite concluding – there will also be a television show, headlined by Steven Spielberg, that will be one of the premiere offerings when the AppleTV+ streaming service debuts this November.

You Can’t Always Get What You Want, But You Can Get Amazing Stories Call this crass commercialism, call it a desperate promotional effort, call it marketing hype, call it silly and unnecessary, call it whatever you will.

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ULTIMO ARTICOLO SUL CICLO APPARAT – DI FRANCESCO IESU

Nel 2007 esce Doktor Sleepless, per Avatar Press, unica serie tra le storie firmate per il progetto Apparat e che si può considerare come la sua terza fase.

Dopo la re-immaginazione del presente del comic-dom senza l’influenza opprimente dei supereroi e aver snocciolato tre dei passaggi che hanno portato il mondo all’età moderna, ora l’obiettivo è analizzare il futuro.

_Doktor Sleepless_ è la storia di John Reinhardt, un vecchio abitante di Heavenside che con il suo ritorno e la diffusione delle sue invenzioni getta definitivamente la città nel caos. Quel suo “Da oggi smetto di essere reale” pronunciato nella prima vignetta della prima pagina è il manifesto sia delle intenzioni del personaggio, sia il richiamo ad uno dei temi che si dipaneranno nella storia: il contrasto tra il piano reale e quello simbolico. Assumendo l’identità di uno scienziato pazzo, Reinhardt diviene credibile agli occhi delle persone e ascoltato in quanto non pericoloso, non venendo considerato reale. Inoltre, come dichiarato da Warren Ellis nel documentario Captured Ghost, la figura dello scienziato pazzo nella finzione permette di concentrarsi essenzialmente sulle creazioni e non sulla loro giustificazione agli occhi del lettore.

L’arrivo del dottore è un’epifania per i Grinders, che rivedono in lui il Messia. Non a caso sempre nel primo numero il suo arrivo in scena vede la resurrezione di un Grinder caduto in arresto cardiaco. I Grinders sono i transumani che vivono a Heavenside e che hanno subito innesti tecnologici. La nascita della loro sottocultura è dovuta sempre allo stesso Reinhardt, il quale ha disseminato le sue invenzioni in bar e club lasciando che sia la gente ad usarle nella maniera che più gli aggrada.

Il ritorno di Reinhardt e l’uso della sua stazione radio porta la polizia ad indagare perché da tre anni è rinchiuso nella sua cella in un istituto di igiene mentale senza essere mai uscito da essa. Nel proseguo della storia viene rivelato come esistano due John Reinhardt: uno in cella e uno che ha assunto l’identità di Doktor Sleepless. La storia che viene narrata dal Reinhardt incarcerato porta non solo a chiarire la faccenda (lasciando il dubbio sul quale sia il vero tra i due), ma soprattutto serve a rilanciare il tema del contrasto tra finzione e realtà. Il racconto su Alexandra David-Neel (donna realmente esistita tra il 1868 e il 1969) si concentra nella sua creazione di un Tulpa. I Tulpa sono delle manifestazioni della mente umana sul piano reale. Il monaco creato dalla David-Neel, pian piano assume sempre più fisicità fino a che non prende una propria coscienza e si svincola dal controllo del proprio creatore. Rimane così il dubbio su quale dei due Reinhardt sia il Tulpa dell’altro. Mistero che è lo stesso Sleepless a indicarci come inutile. Nel quinto numero della serie tramite un monologo nella sua stazione radio, Sleepless parla del concetto di autenticità facendo diversi esempi quali: Richey Manic (of the The Manic Street Preachers), Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Big Bill Broonzy, and Memphis Minnie. Il monologo mostra l’inutilità dei concetti di autenticità e originalità, su come è la credenza della gente a trasformare il falso in reale e come i personaggi creati a tavolino siano visti spesso come autentici rispetto alle persone. Inoltre una battuta presagisce gli importanti sviluppi futuri della serie: “Possiamo essere chiunque immaginiamo. Possiamo diventare qualcuno di nuovo ogni giorno… Essere degli scienziati pazzi. Alla fine del mondo questa è l’unica cosa degna da fare”.

Questo e altri monologhi sparsi lungo i 13 numeri vengono trasmessi dalla radio personale di Sleepless. La radio come mezzo di comunicazione è fondamentale nel veicolare i messaggi di Sleepless e non solo. Viene posta la centralità nei suoi monologhi, i quali nella loro cripticità (talvolta) assomigliano alla parola di Dio tanto che essi cercano con le azioni più disparate e intuizioni più o meno corrette ad eseguire. Inoltre l’utilizzo della radio rende difficile l’assuefazione al personaggio di Sleepless, tanto che le sue apparizioni in città rimangono eccezioni, tutto ciò rende il personaggio come un essere mitico che cammina tra le strade della città.

Il culto di Sleepless diventa ancora più evidente e forte quando compaiono le sue maschere. Queste vengono utilizzate dai Grinders per compiere le sue volontà (o meglio ciò che loro intendono dei discorsi alla radio), mentre le secondo hanno un ruolo misterioso e vengono usate solo da coloro che vedono gli angeli.

In queste scritte c’è la delusione nei confronti del futuro, eppure lungo la storia si dipaneranno invenzioni eccezionali. Per Ellis il futuro è qualcosa di interiore e non di estetico.Il disvelamento del passato del giovane e la tragedia del suicidio dei genitori sono il punto di svolta per vedere sotto una nuova ottica le azioni del protagonista, il cui fine non è quello di portare il futuro alla gente ma eliminare la vita umana dalla faccia della Terra come ogni scienziato pazzo che si rispetti. Le sue motivazioni non sono quelle di distruggere l’umanità per sfizio ma sono dovute all’impossibilità di salvarla dai mostri lovecraftiani che hanno divorato i suoi genitori. L’ineluttabilità della situazione è tale da portare lo scienziato a pensare solamente alla distruzione dell’umanità per far saltare la catena alimentare di questi mostri.

Questa visione è figlia dello studio di The Darkening Sky, libro che nella postfazione del primo numero viene descritto come “una nuova esplorazione nella filosofia del Fatalismo” e un libro che, come Sleepless, “combina il trattato e la finzione, mettendo in discussione la ciclicità della storia e mostrando come l’umanità può creare una macchina della realtà perpetua che la svincoli dalla tirannia del tempo stesso”. Henry Boemer, creatore del libro era ossessionato con gli Antichi Lovecraftiani e gli inserì nella sua mitologia. Ciò è uno dei temi maggiori di Doktor Sleepless, in cui si fonde uno studio sulla tecnologia fantascientifica con un trattato sulla cultura e la vita moderna che si allaccia all’orrore Lovecraftiano. E proprio quest’ultimo assume un ruolo principale nell’origine di John Reinhardt. Il suo tentativo di vendetta nei confronti degli Antichi sarà poi la guida delle sue azioni.

Nei primi 13 numeri della serie (purtroppo gli unici portati a compimento), il world-building è egregio. Il tutto viene ampliato dal gioco iper-testuale che Ellis svolge tramite un sito e una wiki dedicata alla serie. Inoltre nelle pagine finali dei singoli spillati vengono inseriti definizioni, articoli, digressioni dove Ellis approfondisce alcuni aspetti della sua creatura. Tra i diversi articoli ne troviamo uno su Captain Swing, uno dei primi esempi di identità multipla o meglio nome usato da diverse persone durante la Rivolta dei Swing nel 1830 in Inghilterra. Questi personaggi resi celebri da Karen Elliot, Monty Catsin e Luther Blissett sono stati poi rielaborati da Ellis nel suo “Captain Swing e i pirati elettrici dell’isola delle braci”. Opere sempre pubblicata per la Avatar Press con Raulo Caceres ai disegni, dove un omonimo John Reinhardt sfida la legge per portare l’elettricità al popolo senza dover sottostare al gioco di chi possiede le materie prime.

I disegni di Ivan Rodriguez se all’inizio della serie si manifestano come acerbi ed inadatti, tanto da essere altalenanti a seconda delle inquadrature e delle sequenze, nel proseguo ne migliorano il livello, fino a un cambiamento netto dal numero 9, in cui l’influenza di Bryan Hitch e Arthur Adams è evidente nella gestione delle ombre, delle pose e soprattutto nelle ombreggiature. È soprattutto nelle scene più caotiche che Rodriguez riesce a dare il meglio di sé, sembrando un disegnatore totalmente diverso rispetto a quello dei primi albi.

Purtroppo la serie si blocca proprio nel momento in cui i nodi stavano venendo al pettine e i personaggi principali avevano compiute scelte da cui non si poteva tornare indietro, senza considerare l’aumento di tensione tra i gruppi e le forze facenti parte di Heavenside. La granata che viene gettata e rimane inesplosa a mezz’aria nell’ultima pagina del numero 13 è forse l’emblema di questa serie, che proprio nel momento in cui doveva far esplodere le sue idee è stata bloccata.

Il progetto Apparat (fermo al 2009 con la tredicesima ed ultima uscita di Doktor Sleepless) è ormai accantonato e si aggiunge alla lista di opere incompiute scritte per editori indipendenti (Fell, Desolation Jones, Anna Mercury) e non (New-Universal). Nonostante ciò la sua influenza nel cammino del Warren Ellis presente si sente tutt’ora, considerando che Injection (la sua serie più lunga in corso di pubblicazione al momento) continua nel solco di Doktor Sleepless. In Injection il futuro e la sua ricerca ritornano come tematica centrale. Proprio il tentativo dei protagonisti di portare il mondo in una nuova epoca creerà i problemi che cercheranno di risolvere nel corso dei numeri.

Altri articoli su Apparat: – Scardinare la narrativa con quattro racconti (_Singles Collection_) – Conoscere il futuro attraverso il passato (Le Novelle)

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The author’s chartered Aquila 44 approaches Sandy Spit, a sandbar just off Jost Van Dyke. (Zach Stovall/)

I have showered open-airon the stern at daybreak. I have seen gleaming white yachts in sizes ranging from humble to mega; some with sails, some without, and some on which sails could be put, but the owner couldn’t be bothered to do so. I have seen clouds alight in a Pantone guide’s worth, only to be mirrored by a metallic, shimmering sea.

My quartet of shipmates from Tennessee and I have taken a weeklong hiatus from our day jobs to live out the lyrics of any country song involving boats and sand here in the British Virgin Islands. On this sunny, 83-degree day—as every day promises to be here—our Caribs are going down cold and the radio is cranked on the flybridge of Jewel Box, a brawny, three-stateroom Aquila 44 powercat from MarineMax Vacations.

She’s pointed toward Virgin Gorda while on our circuitous route through green hills that rise forth from turquoise waters.

From Left: The 3-foot-3-inch draft (top) helps in skinny water and the is 44 easy for a couple to handle (bottom). The Baths are a BVI must-do. (Zach Stovall/)

At the helm sits Parker, a distinguished man who would not look out of place with epaulets on his shirt. His wife, Karen, is our resident snorkel goddess, and he is flanked by Matt and Milka, a couple contractually obligated to blend pina coladas to perfection. I am the fifth wheel, pressed into service as first-assistant buoy wrangler.

We tie up outside Spanish Town, teeing us up to be the first at daybreak to grab a coveted mooring ball at The Baths, the country’s most recognizable natural wonder. We then celebrate our orientation aboard Jewel Box and first full day of BVI bareboating with sundowners at CocoMaya, a chic South Beach-inspired restaurant on the sand, and a must-see on any BVI cruise.

The next morning, I awake to Jewel Box‘s twin Volvo Pentas cranking all 520 horses, propelling us past the Club Med 2, a boutique cruise ship that just anchored, determined to inundate languorous beaches with acres of sun-seeking tourists. We quickly ready our snorkeling gear and dry bags, intent to swim ashore and have the granite grottoes mostly to ourselves. The boulders, rounded like giant river rocks, are piled at the edge of the sea. The experience of exploring their intimate passages is majestic, especially before the rest of the day’s sightseer rush begins.

Clockwise from top left: Fresh Anegada lobster. Hiking in The Baths. Snorkeling at Norman Island. Pina Coladas on the hook. Cruising off Jost Van Dyke. (Zach Stovall/)

Our next stop is Anegada, where, looking to beat the tour groups on land too, we rent a Suzuki at the Anegada Beach Club. “Drive on the left. Keep it under 30. We have wild cows, wild sheep, wild donkeys and wild people. They all roam freely,” club owner Lawrence Wheatley says.

Regarded by some as the British Virgin Islands’ sleepy stepsister, Anegada’s an outlier not only for its physical distance from the chain, but also for its flat, featureless silhouette on the horizon. The 15-mile run from our overnight spot at Leverick Bay took an hour and 40 minutes, by Parker’s count.

After navigating the ship-swallowing reef that encircles the island, we’re hungry for a lobster lunch, which was promised to Matt and Milka long before we set foot in the BVI. Passing more cows than cars, we land at Big Bamboo on Loblolly Bay, a 10-mile ribbon of gleaming white sand fronted by the reef where our lunch once lived. As we wait for the lobsters to grill, we occupy ourselves with chilled Caribs and swing in woven chairs hung from seagrape trees.

Alas, even in paradise, we eventually have to press onward.

The view from Norman Island overlooking The Bight in the British Virgin Islands. (Zach Stovall/)

Next is Jost Van Dyke, where Matt, Parker and I stare at the last mooring ball, which is missing part of its pennant. Matt and I call “not it” to swim to the buoy and secure the boat. We surely have onlookers: A flotilla is anchored stern-to the sand, with skippers as eager to enjoy White Bay Beach as we are. A string of bars known for rum punch and cornhole is just above the high-water mark. There’s Seddy’s One Love, Ivan’s Stress-Free Bar and, of course, the Soggy Dollar, where Painkillers (the cocktail, not the pills) have eased seafarers’ ails for decades.

Our time sipping Painkillers under the palms is short, but effective, as Parker notes many other charters have cut and run for Peter Island’s Great Harbour, a protected overnight anchorage minutes away. We follow suit, having a New York-style pizza on the beach, and later listening to a chorus of cocktail-inspired karaoke drift across from Foxy’s Tamarind Bar while we watch shooting stars flash over Jewel Box‘s bow.

Clockwise from top left: Cocktails at Big Bamboo Bar on Anegada. Hiking on Norman Island. Rum punch at Corsair’s Beach Bar on Jost Van Dyke. (Zach Stovall/)

Come daylight, I take the wheel from Jost to Norman Island for a snorkeling excursion. The afternoon involves welcomed laziness, followed by a hike up the spine of the island, where we admire a red sun sinking behind the rolling hills of St. John’s. The next morning we end our week at The Indians: four pinnacles of rock, like icebergs, hiding more below the surface than above. Karen leads us on our most epic snorkel yet, along a healthy reef teeming with blue tangs, sergeant majors, parrotfish and coral.

Afterward, we end our carefree week of breathe-easy British Virgin Islands cruising and cocktail-infusion therapy at the base back in Tortola, and we thank Jewel Box for giving us an up-close look at this seafarer’s paradise. Happily tired, sandy and sunburned, I think, Sometimes it’s good to be the fifth wheel.

Getting There

Connecting to the MarineMax Vacations base on Tortola’s Beef Island is easiest via puddle jumper, like those from San Juan, Puerto Rico, aboard Cape Air or Seaborne Airlines. An alternative route through St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, with a connecting ferry to Road Town on Tortola, is less expensive, but expect long lines at Customs and Immigration.

The Fine Print

MarineMax offers several power catamarans from its BVI base for bareboat, captained or crewed charter. One option is all-inclusive (with a captain, chef/deckhand, food, snacks, drinks, spirits, kayaks, a stand-up paddleboard, mooring-ball fees, taxes and insurance). Another is a la carte with a captain and chef. Or take the boat yourself, like we did. The vessels range from a two-stateroom 36-footer to a four-stateroom 48-footer. Bareboats charters like ours start at $1,287 and go up to $1,785 per night ($429 to $595 per stateroom).

Room to Breathe

The Aquila 44 is one of five power catamarans in the builder’s line, ranging from 32 to 48 feet length overall. Our version had three staterooms and three heads, making her a good option for couples who want to share the charter without anyone feeling like he’s stuck in a kiddie cabin. The master stateroom’s berth measures 71 inches wide by 79 inches long, or about the size of a queen; guest stateroom berths are 59 inches wide by 79 inches long. The salon’s seating converts into a single berth. A smart feature is the hinged window that opens the galley to the cockpit bar, to serve guests easily inside and outside.

If this Hull Could Talk

Her hold is laden with dark rum and darker secrets of those who have stayed long after sunset. The Willy T is the floating bar of Caribbean lore, but adrift for permanent anchorage because of a government dispute after her grounding in Hurricane Irma. Temporarily in Peter Island’s Great Harbour, her stern bar still serves up stories to remember.

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Nel 2007 esce Doktor Sleepless, per Avatar Press, unica serie tra le storie firmate per il progetto Apparat e che si può considerare come la sua terza fase.

Altri articoli su Apparat: – Scardinare la narrativa con quattro racconti (_Singles Collection_) – Conoscere il futuro attraverso il passato (Le Novelle)

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