Text: The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin + Mutual Aidby Peter Kropotkin

Guides: Czarina & Abbi

Place: Fort Greene

Benedict Anderson famously theorized nations as "imagined communities" produced by distinctly modern forms of written communication: the newspaper and the novel. His great insight was that new kinds of media can allow us to imagine new kinds of collective identity. 

We'll take that idea up in this Study. How did the Russian anarchist Kropotkin theorize collectivism? How does Ursula K LeGuin imagine collectivism through her fiction? What's the difference between imagining and theorizing? What can these two thinkers teach us about collectivist politics — and the respective roles of fiction and non-fiction in speculative worldbuilding?

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