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The first in a projected series of video installations that seeks to explore the environmental humanities as a scholarly domain of growing significance.
The first in a projected series of video installations that seeks to explore the environmental humanities as a scholarly domain of growing significance.
Weik von Mossner looks at how we currently tell stories about global environmental change and human agency in the Anthropocene, the limitations of such narratives, and how consumers of these narratives are affected by them.
DeB. Richter addresses the problem with declensionist narratives of the environment, proposing the Georgic narrative as a valuable alternative.
In this selection of poems, Adam Dickinson focuses on the “outside” that is the “inside,” thereby drawing attention to the coextensive and intra-active nature of the body with its environment and the consequent implications for linking the human to the nonhuman and the personal to the global in environmental ethics.
Michael Marder interprets the “toxic flood” we are living or dying through as a global dump. On his reading, multiple levels of existence—from the psychic to the physiological, from the environmental-elemental to the planetary—are being converted into a dump, a massive and still growing hodgepodge of industrial and consumer by-products and emissions; shards of metaphysical ideas and theological dreams; radioactive materials; light, sound, and other modes of sensory pollution; pesticides and herbicides; and so forth.
Excerpt from RCC fellow Jemma Deer’s monograph Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World.
In this episode of ASLE’s official podcast, Jemma Deer and Brandon Galm interviews Una Chaudhuri on the topic of eco-theatre.
Full article by Heather I. Sullivan.
How birds and poetry reacquaint us with an awareness of history and feelings of loss in Anthropocene nature reserves.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Jemma Deer is interviewed on her new book, Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World.