CITTIPUNKT Radio – CP Lesekugel #9 with XENOVERSE reads Adulthood Rites by Octavia Butler 27.06.2025

Xenoverse – Scenes from the Alien Party – Adulthood Rites by Octavia Butler

Scenes from the Alien Party is a series of audioplays by Xenoverse. The cycle is based on the trope of the 'party scene' common in sci-fi novels from the US-American New Wave. A party denotes a festive social event, or a political group with a certain ideological program, that in revolutionary times could function as a governing body. A party is more generally a collective of people, as in a hunting party. “To part" as in “to separate” is common in the various meanings of the word. It marks a group's distinction from the larger social world to care for each other, lift each other out of repression (both political and libidinal), and may create a space of identification that can function as a veh...

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