Text: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Guides: Quinn & Kyle

Place: Harlem

Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower depicts a not-so-distant U.S.A. in the throes of collapse. Her classic novel explores what happens when the state breaks down amid ecological disaster, corporate exploitation, and rising inequality.

We'll read Butler and look ahead to a new year as we ask: Once the state recedes, what modes of self-organization remain to us? And what kinds of attention can bring these political possibilities to life?

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