/tags/leguin/ Recent bookmarks tagged #leguin Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:24:54 +0000 https://www.oregoncontemporary.org/a-larger-reality A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin offers a biographical and poetical portrait of one of Oregon’s best known artists. Examining important moments and themes in Le Guin’s life and oeuvre, the exhibition encompasses a rich variety of media, immersing guests in the ideas, playfulness and hope that course through Ursula K. Le Guin’s art. The exhibition is curated by Theo Downes-Le Guin, the author’s son, with contributions from many others who knew the author or her work.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #art #leguin #oregon #pdx</p> Fri, 28 Nov 2025 04:45:37 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:38036 art leguin oregon pdx https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology Technology is the active human interface with the material world. ... We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers — as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe...<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #leguin #scifi #technology #writing</p> Mon, 27 Jan 2025 03:58:27 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:29696 leguin scifi technology writing