Station Eleven, By Emily St. John Mandel

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Survival Is Insufficient: 'Station Eleven' Preserves Art After The Apocalypse By  Weekend Edition Saturday      This review of Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel was very positive. I really enjoyed how they talked about why the story took place so many years after the plague. The writer said that she wanted to make a story of hope, and she doesn't believe that the madness we so often see in a post-apocalyptic story would last. So she based the story in the world after those days had passed.      Another interesting point in this review, was Mandel was asked why do we enjoy post-apocalyptic novels? Mandel then discusses the theory of these stories reflecting our unease with our economic inequality. Mandel then says that she actually likes the theory that claims this genre is so popular because we have no knew frontiers to explore. It fulfills a restlessness we live with due to our lack of  being able to explore the world...

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This has nothing to do with the book, but with finals coming up I thought I would share it. The mandatory introduction course at ASU shared it. It is about making stress your friend and using its powers for good.

Eve, Martin Paul (2018) Reading Very Well for Our Age: Hyperobject Metadata and Global Warming in Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven.      This peer reviewed essay was originally published in the Open Library of Humanities. It is 42 pages long, much of the first 22 pages is spent arguing the definition and value of "metadata" and "hyper-objects" in objective reading. If you can make it through this painfully long argument, the paper does offer some real insights.      One of the main insights I really liked was the idea of symbolism from three points of view. The reader, the characters born after the plague and before the plague. All of whom, see the same item from a different point of view. It takes on different symbolism for each party. For example, as a reader we see a computer as a necessary tool many of us cannot live without, the characters born before the flu, it is a reminder of the past, and for those born after the flu it is...

A six-minute video of Emily St. John Mandel reading two small passages from Station Eleven. The main part of the reading is chapter six, "an incomplete list". Every video I have found of the author reading from " Station Eleven " she reads this passage. I find this a little odd, because it is one of the more bleak moments in the novel, and she always comments on how it is suppose to be a novel about hope.