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Reading with Scientists: Ursula Le Guin’s Omelas and the Dystopia of Big Data

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Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poorįor more about the experience of teaching Le Guin, see the blogpost below, originally published on the WhatEvery1Says website by Abigail Droge under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Cathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Economic Inequality and Threatens Democracy.

Try pairing with excerpts from the following: “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” connects well with texts about the costs behind any seeming-Utopia.

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The following ideas are drawn from the syllabus of “Reading with Scientists: How to Export Literature,” a class taught by Abigail Droge in the UC Santa Barbara English Department. In terms of the page-count-to-student-impact ratio, this is one of the most effective texts I’ve found for starting a cross-disciplinary conversation. Ursula Le Guin’s short story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” can - within just a few pages - ignite huge topics of discussion.