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  • Rebecca Solnitt’s “Orwell’s Roses”

    Dr. Diane Fortenberry

    “Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in the spring of 1949, less than a year before its author’s death, in January 1950. In a statement published in Life magazine, addressed to the head of the…

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  • A Study in Rebellion: Antigone

    Dr. Diane Fortenberry

    “Antigone was a favorite play of ancient philosophers because it promotes debate (e.g. what is law, is Antigone as guilty of arrogant dogmatism as Creon, and how shall we think about the powerless?),…

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  • “‘Orwell’s Roses,’ by Rebecca Solnit”

    Dr. Diane Fortenberry

    “Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in the spring of 1949, less than a year before its author’s death, in January 1950. In a statement published in Life magazine, addressed to the head of the…

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  • Antigone: A Study in Rebellion

    Dr. Diane Fortenberry

    “Antigone was a favorite play of ancient philosophers because it promotes debate (e.g. what is law, is Antigone as guilty of arrogant dogmatism as Creon, and how shall we think about the powerless?),…

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  • Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds, and Shape our Futures, by Merlin Sheldrake

    Dr. Diane Fortenberry

    “The usefulness of fungi is, for us, a lucky biproduct of their own independent lifeways, and their constancy, resourcefulness, and apparent equitability are reminders that we are not as special as we think.…

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  • Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths, by Helen Morales

    Dr. Diane Fortenberry

    “The danger of mythology—not just Classical myth, but all myth, from Norse to Japanese to African to Native American—is that it is so deep-rooted in the contemporary cultures to which it is ancestral…

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  • Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    Dr. Diane Fortenberry

    “An ilbal is an instrument for seeing, a lens with which to view sacred relationships. In Native cultures it might comprise stories, traditions, ceremonies. Kimmerer suggests that science is the ilbal of modern…

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