November 14th for me will always be “Rio Day”—the birthday of my good friend who lives there and who is huge fan of science fiction. As with many cities, Rio has many problems, but visiting the delta of the “River of January” has a mythical, magical power for me because so many of its natural beauty seems to hail from […]
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Bruce Chatwin Dissolves
Bruce Chatwin: Traveling, unfixed, nomadic, dissolving. Identity that spreads far and wide but nearly imperceptibly… underground. The way Deleuze and Guattari speak of identity as rhizomatic in A Thousand Plateaus… each of us growing outward rather than upward. This puts the emphasis less on power and hierarchy, and more on a plurality of equally empowered humans. Chatwin travelled and with each […]
