tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4675224008350998211.post4675886218448303332..comments2011-02-13T20:52:42.916-08:00Comments on 95 Cent Skooler:: Synopsis by Marlon MacAllisterSkoolerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03414389916189517925noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4675224008350998211.post-52577340545560158432010-06-18T17:27:13.351-07:002010-06-18T17:27:13.351-07:00You seem to be speaking of ecologies as if, left o...You seem to be speaking of ecologies as if, left on their own, they would be in some natural equilibrium. But ecologies constantly disrupt themselves, often in quite traumatic, all encompassing ways.Justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10745946652949594472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4675224008350998211.post-62111658098426703812010-06-14T14:06:42.598-07:002010-06-14T14:06:42.598-07:00I agree with the falling over (ie: I fell over als...I agree with the falling over (ie: I fell over also) at Kovel's dream, as expressed in the final section. It reminded me a lot of two novels by Ursula Le Guin which enact the kind of ecotopian leftist society that Koven plots but does not narrate: The Dispossessed (subtitled An Ambiguous Utopia) and Always Coming Home. Science fiction is, of course, utopian in a specific way, but particularly in Always Coming Home, Le Guin practices and describes the practice of an ethical poetic.Delirium's Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13213875721316857164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4675224008350998211.post-7298050593260110392010-06-13T21:36:45.380-07:002010-06-13T21:36:45.380-07:00Marlon, thank you so much for this synopsis. I wi...Marlon, thank you so much for this synopsis. I will still read the book but I'm so excited to see what you've thought of it and what you have gathered from it. <br /><br />BTW Your blog rocks.Skoolerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414389916189517925noreply@blogger.com