Rupturing Tradition: Ancient Past, Contemporary Praxis
Description: I’m a writer, philosopher, and activist. Earned my Ph.D. in Rhetoric, U.C. Berkeley, 2017, and taught at Bard, Princeton, and NY state prisons before leaving academia.
Chi Rainer Bornfree, PhD
Pronouns: They/them Previous work published as: Chiara Ricciardone I’m a writer, philosopher, and activist. Earned my Ph.D. in Rhetoric, U.C. Berkeley, 2017, and taught at Bard, Princeton, and NY state prisons before leaving academia. Lived around the world. Now growing vegetables and homeschooling my kids in the Hudson Valley, NY.
- Not Normal (novel) : An out-of-work programmer crushed by long Covid accepts an experimental AI implant to try to recover her normal life. But the implant comes with the unexpected ability to understand animals. Soon, the deep relationships Silver forms with animals and AI — and the conflicts they set off — threaten the very human fellowship that she craves. - The Portal: Corona Letters : This is an experimental, epistolary memoir of the ongoing pandemic, which highlights the transformative force of frien
Rupturing Tradition: Ancient Past, Contemporary Praxis