Reading is the powerful tool we have to unlock our imaginations. And right now, I believe it's time to use our imaginations to see a new world. Maybe one that's not dominated by "obsessive technologies," as Ursula K Le Guin so aptly put.
Resources Mentioned:
- American Library Association
- Full Speech: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Passionate Defense of Art over Profits
- Celine Nguyen's "No One Told Me About Proust"
- Carl Hendrick's Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us
- Rayne Fisher-Quann's Poser Ethics
-Museguided's Freedom’s Fragility, Democracy’s Decline
- Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Marie Brown
Timestamps:
00:00 intro
02:33 everyone is using chatgpt to cheat?
03:39 it's easier now than ever to seen as smart and interesting
05:45 Ursula K Le Guin's art versus profit motive
09:10 Literacy IS quality of life
11:17 Stop blaming students - this is a systemic issue
12:29 taste is formed through love
15:09 reading as resistance
20:45 public libraries are being defunded. Here's what we can do about it!
21:07 why you should care about libraries
22:11 All organizing is science fiction
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