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The ‘ecological imperative’ (Hans Jonas) manifests in different ways according to the linguistic, generic, medial, and semiotic conditions in which it is communicated. This is also true of creative forms of cultural practice such as literature and the aesthetic. The ecological imperative in literature is conveyed not primarily through its discursiv...
peer reviewed / This essay explores the avenues opened and limits set by the sublime when used a rhetorical and narratological strategy for figuring and describing non-human animals in the memoir, an understudied but promising genre for examining human/nonhuman relationships. Since few (if any) recent theories of the sublime provide a viable revisi...
The sublime remains a contested rhetorical and aesthetic concept whose salvageability in the fields of literary criticism, philosophy, and environmental humanities, among others, is still being questioned. The liveliness of the debate on this notion as well as its continuous—implicit or explicit—deployments in a plethora of literary works attest, h...
The sublime remains a contested rhetorical and aesthetic concept whose salvageability in the fields of literary criticism, philosophy, and environmental humanities, among others, is still being questioned. The liveliness of the debate on this notion as well as its continuous—implicit or explicit—deployments in a plethora of literary works attest, h...
This special issue of Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances offers a reflection on the development of diverse proposals and perspectives in the humanities and social sciences regarding the “work of nature”. This introduction provides a general but non-exhaustive overview of the notion of work in the knowledge production systems of animal and envi...
peer reviewed / After identifying some of the aesthetic, rhetorical, and ontological pitfalls of the nuclear or atomic sublime (the over-aestheticization of nuclear risks and the resulting absence of any sense of responsibility) this essay undertakes narratological and rhetorical analyses of one novel, Gerald Vizenor’s Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 (200...
After identifying some of the aesthetic, rhetorical, and ontological pitfalls of the nuclear or atomic sublime (the over-aestheticization of nuclear risks and the resulting absence of any sense of responsibility) this essay undertakes narratological and rhetorical analyses of one novel, Gerald Vizenor’s Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 (2003), and one crea...
This dissertation presents an analysis of permaculture listening practices as a set of strategies for perceiving and participating with more-than-human ecological subjectivities (Diehm 2002: 29-33; Posthumus 2017: 26). Today, permaculture is a grassroots social movement for ecological regeneration and eco-social justice grounded in a three-fold eth...
“The Body and the Book: Ecologies of Inscription in the Early English Archive” investigates the ecological entanglements of books, bodies, and their environments via representations of bookmaking in 16th- and 17th-century British literature. I argue that acts of inscription, especially those undertaken upon environmental or bodily surfaces, situate...
Fossil Power: Energy Empire and Insurgent Life examines narratives of fossil fuel modernity from the nineteenth to twenty-first century to show how the history and culture of energy in the United States is a project of racial-capitalist empire. What I call fossil power names key social formations and worldmaking systems of energy empire: racial cap...
