All garden entries tagged with "exploitation".
5 entries across the garden
Christopher Moore takes a wild premise—Lilith (a.k.a Judith), freshly unfrozen from a block of Arctic ice in 1911 Vienna, crossing paths with a young Carl Jung—and uses it as scaffolding for something more ambitious than his usual comic romp. At its best, the novel is a sharp interrogation of who gets to own a story, […]
In the third book of Matt Dinniman’s chaotic LitRPG series, Carl and Princess Donut find themselves on the Fourth Floor of the World Dungeon: The Iron Tangle. This floor is a massive, mind-bending network of subway tunnels and shifting train lines that require intense logistical planning to navigate. While dodging the usual array of homicidal […]
Annalee Newitz’s delightful novella, Automatic Noodle, is a masterfully crafted piece of near-future speculative fiction that manages to be both deeply comforting and razor-sharp. It seamlessly balances the warmth of “cozy sci-fi” with a thoughtful, hard-hitting exploration of freedom, dignity, and systemic prejudice. The story takes place in a San Francisco working to rebuild itself […]
This is a topic that spans sociology of education, child development, and child protection literature — worth separating carefully since “grooming” means quite different things in each context. Grooming as acculturation In sociology, “grooming” (or “preparing,” “shaping,” “socializing”) describes how institutions cultivate people into social roles over time. This isn’t sinister by default — it’s […]
Trauma theory began, as so much of modern literary criticism does, with Freud. In Studies on Hysteria, he and Joseph Breuer proposed that an extreme event isn’t traumatic in the moment so much as it becomes traumatic later, surfacing during a latency period when some unrelated trigger calls the repressed memory back up. Decades later, […]
