![]() It is a place where civil society has largely collapsed after being ravaged by climate change and succumbing to a political zealot as president, who promises to Make America Great Again.īutler, who died aged just 59 in 2006, created speculative fiction that ingeniously reflects on historic and contemporary inequities and forms of activism, from civil rights to feminism. ![]() Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower (and its 1998 sequel, Parable of the Talents) in which Olamina struggles to survive and then build a new community in mid-2020s US. That work was called Earthseed and it took its title directly from the new religion formed by Lauren Olamina, the visionary Los Angeles teenager at the heart of Octavia E. It builds on an earlier work by Okoyomon, developed for the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt in 2020, where the kudzu eventually consumed the wool figures. It is a symbolic landscape, a reflection on enslaved and displaced peoples, and their deep connection to land and environment. It is occupied by totemic figures made in raw wool, yarn, blood and dirt, surrounded by vegetation-sugar cane and the invasive, entangling presence of Japanese kudzu, a plant brought to the American South to try to heal the damage to the soil caused by the over-cultivation of cotton. Refund Policy: Refunds less a $15 handling fee will be given up until one week before the presentation.At this year’s Venice Biennale, one of the outstanding installations is Precious Okoyomon’s contribution to Cecilia Alemani’s main exhibition, The Milk of Dreams (until 27 November). To better understand how we as clinicians can utilize narrative fiction as a means to examine unsettling social and political conditions with clients in an ethical manner.To increase understanding of the role of mythology and creative writing as channels for social critique.To increase critical thinking skills in order to apply interdisciplinary knowledge to clinical work and practice.Saturday, October 2nd, 2021, from 10:00 AM to 12:15 PM Pacific time– via ZoomĬost: $65.00 for the practitioners and $30.00 for students/candidates.ĬEU Learning Objectives (2 CEUs offered – including ethics): Participants will be sent a Zoom link in advance. Registration will close 24-hours before the start of the seminar. Butler’s Fictions. She is an organizer, educator, and teaches ethnic studies courses at California State University Polytechnic, Pomona. Her dissertation is entitled, ‘Certainty of the Flesh’: A Biomythographical Reading of Octavia E. The Legacy Network grew out of Ayana’s research for her doctoral work about Butler’s life. Butler Legacy Network, a global community committed to highlighting Octavia Butler’s life and work while creating new works inspired by Butler’s legacy. The Mythology and Depth Psychology of Octavia ButlerĪyana Jamieson is a Depth Psychologist and is the founder of the Octavia E. NEW DATE: Saturday, October 2nd, 2021, from 10:00 AM to 12:15 PM Pacific time– via Zoom In addition to her role as founder of the Legacy Network, Ayana is also an expert on Butler’s life and work, the Butler archives at the Butler’s life and work serve as a case study for moving toward psychological wholeness, surviving trauma and developing resilient narratives in unprecedented times. Butler’s empathetic and remarkable science fiction. Butler Legacy Network, Ayana Jamieson, we’ll explore the mythology and meaning of Octavia E. In this session with Depth Psychologist and founder of the Octavia E. Set in the 2020s in Los Angeles, this novel references a nation beset by climate change, widespread illness, economic collapse, scarcity of necessities, and yes, a zealot politician running on the platform to “Make America Great Again.” Over the last several decades, Butler’s prescience in Parable of the Sower has not gone unnoticed. Her novel Parable of the Sower, written in 1993, just hit the New York Times Best Seller’s list for the first time in September 2020, while Ava Duverney, Viola Davis, and others continue to work to bring her works to the small screen, adapting her novels Dawn, Wild Seed and Kindredfor television. Butler, passed away nearly fifteen years ago, 2020 has been a big year in her career. While award-winning speculative and science fiction author, Octavia E. Together we will seek new perspectives that may help us move into an open future. Stepping back from the present situation, we will reflect on the current moment through trans-disciplinary lenses including philosophy, theology, history, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and anthropology. In this intimate Saturday morning seminar, our desire is to nourish a spirit of reflection rather than repeating the sounds of panic and alarm, or pretend hopes. The tone of collective discourse has rapidly degenerated, damaging the forms and rituals that give coherence to our lives, cultures and professional disciplines contributing to a sense of communal and global unrest.
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