{"product_id":"a-non-euclidean-view-of-california-ursula-k-le-guin-9781919318011","title":"A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be","description":"In this refusal of futurity, Ursula K. Le Guin loosens the grip of Euclidean reason by taking a non-linear journey - full of side trips and reversals - through a counter-imaginary of place. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on Taoist thought, she shows a way out of the 'hot' yang motorcycle trip of colonial modernity and its doctrine of technological progress and future utopias. Instead, she advocates for what is 'cold', yielding, cyclical and resistant to abstraction. If we return, go round, go inward, go yinward, the Golden Age is right here, right now - invisible only to the forward-oriented mind. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that how we write is inseparable from how we imagine worlds. From alternative social imaginaries rehearsed within an anti-heroic literary style, utopia emerges as a practice of staying with and inhabiting the present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ursula K. Le Guin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1919318011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781919318011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Silver Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Ursula K. Le Guin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48460407767295,"sku":"9781919318011","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e7f77034-be72-4762-a1f2-a33b5fe22e77.jpg?v=1777414554","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-non-euclidean-view-of-california-ursula-k-le-guin-9781919318011","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}