Recs if you like Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)...

A space where poetry and environmental themes merge with some additional, complementary books to go along with the subject.

A posthuman(ish) syllabus - books on or related to posthumanism, transhumanism, cybernetics, autopoiesis, tech, & the (non?)human.

Theme: “What is a thing? What is the difference between people and things?” with a focus on identity, commodification, alienation, and even AI

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Books + Films (in order): Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift Wen Muye, “Dying to Survive” (2018) Hunger Games - Hayao Miyazaki, “The Boy and the Heron” (2023) The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - TBA Spike Jonze, “Her” (2013)