![]() Today, I’ll be presenting you with my initial thoughts on the text, shaped by my readings in disability studies. One of the key things that Delany does here, along with giving us a variety of bodies and minds functioning together as part of a connected unit, is encourages us to think about how we might redefine productivity and labor if we allow different kinds of bodyminds to access productive spaces and labor in new ways that might not be available to “normal” humans. However, much of the novel, alongside that quest, focuses on her search for a spaceship crew and the technical and social interactions between the crew members. ![]() If you were to do a straightforward, as much as that’s possible, summary of Babel-17, you would probably focus on the protagonist Rydra Wong and her search to discover the secret of Babel-17: the eponymous language of the novel. Delany’s 1966 science fiction novel Babel-17 disrupts traditional categories of mind and body to offer us a vision of how human variation and bodily interdependence can promote cooperation and excellence. The goal of this paper is to discuss how Samuel R. ![]() ![]() Delany’s Babel-17Īuthor’s Note: This is a cleaned-up transcript of a presentation that represents my initial foray into this project. ![]()
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