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George Estreich

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland

Corvallis author George Estreich joins us to talk about his new book from MIT Press: Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves. The book explores how new biomedical technologies require us to imagine who counts as human and what it means to belong. From next-generation prenatal tests, to virtual children, to the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9, new biotechnologies grant us unprecedented power to predict and shape future people. That power implies a question about belonging: which people, which variations, will we welcome? How will we square advances in biotechnology with the real but fragile gains for people with disabilities -- especially when their voices are all but absent from the conversation? The book explores the troubled territory where biotechnology and disability meet. Estreich, an…

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Westside Writing Group

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton

A group for anyone writing nonfiction or memoir who would like company, support, and, most of all, accountability. Whether you’ve never written a word or you’re a published author, join us!

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Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland

In Dead Precedents (Repeater), Roy Christopher traces the story of how hip-hop invented the 21st century. Emerging alongside cyberpunk in the 1980s, the hallmarks of hip-hop – allusion, self-reference, the use of new technologies, sampling, the cutting and splicing of language and sound – would come to define the culture of the new millennium. Dead Precedents is a counterculture history of the 20th century, showcasing hip-hop’s role in the creation of the world we now live in.

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