A Rant About Technology

Fiction and essays that reconsider social arrangements, gender and the technologies of ordinary life. Examine the assumptions built into a fictional world.

How to study this source

• Which social assumptions become visible when a fictional world changes them?

  coreOpening overview and the first section that addresses the pathway question. Stop after 30–45 minutes; this is selected reading.

  Fiction and essays that reconsider social arrangements, gender and the technologies of ordinary life. Examine the assumptions built into a fictional world.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

Read alongside, read against