CLOSE READING GUIDES
Following an idea.
Six thematic dossiers connecting passages, concepts, and different sources. A proposition, a counterquestion, and readings to continue with.
Ecology
Changing the desert, changing humanity
A planet’s transformation also changes the values of those living on it.
Read with 3 passages ↗PowerLiving in a savior’s shadow
A leader’s intention and the consequences of the order established in his name are not the same.
Read with 3 passages ↗Memory and identityHow much of the past belongs to you?
Ancestral memories and reproduced bodies push the boundaries of selfhood.
Read with 3 passages ↗TechnologyFreedom after the machine
Where else does a society that rejects a technology concentrate ability and control?
Read with 2 passages ↗Everyday cultureA life around water
Clothing, food, ceremony, and education: responses to desert conditions on different scales.
Read with 3 passages ↗The author and sourcesThe world that wrote Dune
Frank Herbert’s research, family life, and doubts about heroes.
Read with 2 passages ↗