English @ SUNY Geneseo | Jonah Goldstein | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/jonah/activity/ Activity feed for Jonah Goldstein. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 bfc051ca152e031a4dc764a00b4c4c42 Jonah Goldstein commented on the post, If This Isn’t Niess, What Is?, on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11595/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:33:05 -0500 It’s Aurite

]]> 0 eb7ace6d683633b8a323f37c84690da5 Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post If This Isn’t Niess, What Is? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11587/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:28:35 -0500 “This engine’s magics have no purpose that I can see, other than to look and sound and be beautiful. And somehow—I shiver, understanding instinctively but resisting because this contradicts everything I have l […]

]]> 0 95c4037643a5a4e3da28e9cf309ded1c Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post Obelisks, Stone Eaters, and Lorists: The Many Faces of the Archive (Part Two of Two) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11415/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 04:42:23 -0500 I’ve studied what I could of the Niess and their culture. There isn’t much left, and I have to sift the truth from all the lies. But there was a…a practice among them. A vocation. People whose job it was to see […]

]]> 0 7f363f58ea78011be440a288d2b35042 Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post Obelisks, Stone Eaters, and Lorists: The Many Faces of the Archive (Part One of Two) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11366/ Sat, 01 Dec 2018 03:57:46 -0500 There is an order to life in the Stillness*
There is also a continuity. It is difficult for a society to prioritize the preservation of history when the preservation of life itself is such an immediate concern. […]

]]> 0 2b8a8d5798945a09ff7eebcf9395e469 Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post What Stillness Society Understands About Puberty Ceremonies That We Do Not in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11301/ Thu, 29 Nov 2018 07:04:43 -0500 Life in the Stillness is flawed. Deeply flawed. As Hoa informs us, it has been so for a long time. Yet when it comes to raising children, there is something they get right: they have puberty ceremonies. This […]

]]> 0 4d53cf557ce4e5a9385588031948802e Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post Extractivism: Syl Anagist, and Us in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11211/ Mon, 26 Nov 2018 06:30:21 -0500 In a 2016 interview with WIRED, back when The Fifth Season was the only book in the Broken Earth Series on the shelves, N.K. Jemisin was asked if she had “deliberately set out to write a critique of our soc […]

]]> 0 c563c90009d29fe14ac69cc3ce1e665a Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post Hoa's Humor -- Why Jemisin Jokes in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11204/ Wed, 21 Nov 2018 18:52:30 -0500 From the very first chapter in the Broken Earth series it is made clear that our narrator is funny. The speaker, who 400 pages later we will find out is Hoa (The Fifth Season 443), tells us, after describing th […]

]]> 0 23d3c8d38d5809bd85b7c3d18a92312d Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post Essun's Personal Rifting: Fractures in Identity in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11113/ Tue, 13 Nov 2018 20:25:57 -0500 Amidst the many shocking revelations of The Fifth Season, we came to know our singular protagonist by three names: Damaya, Syenite, and Essun. Since then, the identities of various characters have undergone […]

]]> 0 8973a00a2659cdf31085432ddbaf5f98 Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post A Blog Interlude in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11019/ Fri, 09 Nov 2018 20:08:54 -0500 A lump in the mattress. A snake on the plane. There are things you should be noticing here. 

Hoa:

Pale
Immortal
In love with a mortal
Weird teeth

…Vampire??

*Theory by […]

]]> 0 4399531e25836aedbc7b8cf7d2e97875 Jonah Goldstein commented on the post, Slavery Broke the World, on the site (Im)Possibilities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11014/ Fri, 09 Nov 2018 01:16:27 -0500 I love that you explore not only the pathologies but the adaptive behaviors which have arisen out of the oppression perpetuated by Sanz and the Stonelore! Awesome post 🙂

]]> 0 442aeaeef58f5728bb2840870f4a6198 Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post Jemisin, Sessing the Symbolic Power of Apocalypse in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10996/ Sun, 04 Nov 2018 22:20:42 -0500 One of the many books I regret not finding the time to finish is psychologist Robert Jay Lifton’s The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation. While I will discuss the insights and i […]

]]> 0 343792cc2c0b126904cabe5eb1224afc Jonah Goldstein wrote a new blog post El Niño and La Niña: Our Closest Analogue for Seasons? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10952/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 05:56:40 -0500 Seasons are one of the primary forces which shape Stillness society–lore is centered on surviving them, geomests in the universities debate the history and classification of them, and the worth of individuals is […]

]]> 0 041e0f5671be73f1350c3dc7eb6a8ad9 Jonah Goldstein edited the blog post Philosophical Razors and the Instability of the Stillness in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10840/ Fri, 05 Oct 2018 22:28:18 -0500 Life in the Stillness is plagued by uncertainty. When the Earth itself is unstable, so is everything built upon it, including knowledge. The incomprehensibility of various “deadciv artifacts” mentioned throughout […]

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