It seems the basic reason that the sociologies of gender and science intersecting matters is this: that intersection is what foregrounds the historical and contemporary controversy about what it means to have ‘life.’
Category: Pastiche
Eat Chillies, Destroy Everything
Did I ever think a novel could be about eating chillies?
Who Fears Death? Not Nnedi Okorafor’s heroine!
Language fails before the scale of the violence and the atrocity so that the witness must shapeshift in order to make sense of a reality that is truly protean in its torments and terrors.
The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne
The world that Byrne has created is intensely brittle, manipulated, multidimensional and polymorphous, but less focus on the possibilities of pastiche and paranormality and a little more on the meaning and yield even of shifting positions and subjectivities in a compressed time-space would have made the novel more readable and enjoyable.
One Planet, Only One 