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The Unseen Book Club

Trouble on Triton by Samuel R. Delany

13 Jun 2022

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In 1976, one year after the publication of his masterpiece Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany wrote Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia. A prescient, layered and vexing novel, Triton traces the existential crises of gender, sex, alienation and desire plaguing its protagonist Bron Helstrom as he navigates daily life as a white-collar tech worker living in a gender-specified housing cooperative on Neptune´s moon Triton. A story of unrequited desire and petty social complaints unfolds amidst exquisite science-fictional word-building and the rich meta-textual study Delany is known for.We are joined by artist and fellow Delany enthusiast Lyn Corelle. Although the book´s meaning is evasive, we have an amazing time discussing utopias and their discontents, political economy and war, the futurity of individualism and gender, and Delany´s peculiar interrogation of the political through relational tension.Samuel R. Delany: ´To Read the Dispossessed´ (1976)On Triton and Other Matters: An Interview with Samuel R. Delany (1990)Joanna Russ: ´Recent Feminist Utopias´ (1981)Michel Foucault: On Other Spaces: Utopias and HeterotopiasLyn Correlle can be found at:Instagram: https://instagram.com/lyncorelleTwitter: https://twitter.com/sex_forestTwitter: https://twitter.com/unseenbookclubInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/unseenbookclub_podcastMusic by ex-official: https://exofficialexo.bandcamp.comArt by Eli Liebman: https://elimack.weebly.com/Buzzsprout Instagram Music by Ex-Official Art by Eli Mack

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