Lucy H. Pearce and Christine Rose discuss contemporary dystopian fiction - The Circle - on the Creative Magic Book Club.

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The Circle is for lovers of 1984, Brave New World, The Handmaids Tale - a tech utopia/ dystopia published in 2013, set in the near future.

A clever examination of where we are going with social media and the dominance of likes and follower numbers.

It makes you more conscious of the way tech is shaping our world, our interactions, our creative choices and our very selves, as you read you see it everywhere and can't unsee it.

Available in paperback, ebook, audiobook and film starring Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega. Film available on Netflix and Prime.

About the Book

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - a dark, thrilling and unputdownable novel about our obsession with the internet

'The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world... Fast, witty and troubling' Washington Post

When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public ...

'An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st Century' Vanity Fair

'Prescient, important and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' Guardian

Dave Eggers is the author of many acclaimed books, including The Circle; What is the What and Zeitoun.

He is the founder of the publishing house and magazine McSweeney's and the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired similar programs around the world.

His work has been translated into forty-two languages.

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Dee Mulrooney is a multi-disciplinary Irish artist. Inhabiting a female body and all that it entails is the main preoccupation of her work. Exile, class, displacement, social history, longing and belonging are some of the themes explored by Dee, through various media, including painting, drawing, film, storytelling, and performance. Her art is fiercely authentic, and she leaves no stone of her own personal healing journey unturned. Dee works with the alchemical aspect of transmutation in her art, using this process to deal with difficult topics, including, abuse, death and loss. Dee’s performance art is provocative and has a political point to make, highly social, collaborative and community building. She is driven by story and symbolism, how we remember and interpret history and women’s role and their bodies within that. She exhibits and performs regularly and had an award-winning show at Edinburgh Fringe 2023.

https://deirdre-mulrooney.com/

www.Instagram.com/deemulrooney

*Trigger warning re abuse and baby death, and Irish Mother and Baby homes – to skip this section around 15-22 mins*

We talked about:

The central theme of womanhood in her work and contemporary vulva-tastic culture!

Her alter ego Growler – an 84 year old vulva and mother of God and creating ritual theatre

How one of the most traumatic events in recent Irish history emboldened her to draw

The colonisation of the creative space by patriarchy and capitalism

Art and activism

Women’s creativity, high art and the Establishment

Art as alchemy and transmuter of pain

In the extended episode we discussed:

The impact of empire…and how quickly things can change

Her experience of childhood hallucinations and being exorcised

Imbas – the Irish insight

Her advice on overcoming fear in order to make or share the work you are called to

We mentioned:

Empire podcast

Burning Woman

Tuam Mother and Baby Home

The Babog project

Meggan Watterson – Magdalene Revealed

Imbas

Sile na gigs

About your Host

Lucy H. Pearce is the author of multiple life-changing non-fiction books, including Nautilus Award silver winners Medicine Woman, Burning Woman, and Creatrix: she who makes. Her writing focuses on women’s healing through archetypal psychology, embodiment, historical awareness and creativity.

Lucy founded Womancraft Publishing, publishing paradigm-shifting books by women for women, in 2014.

lucyhpearce.com

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