philosophy

Excerpt from RCC fellow Jemma Deer’s monograph Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World.

Extract from Nina Munteanu’s Water is…—a book on the meaning of water.

Iovino, Serenella. “Posthumanism in Literature and Ecocriticism.” Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism 4, no. 1 (2016): 11–20.

“Where does the posthuman dwell? At what address? And in what type of house?”

Drawing on Continental theory and various cultural objects, On an Ungrounded Earth constructs an eclectic geosophy describing Earth as a dynamic engine materially invading and upsetting our attempts to reduce it to merely the ground beneath our feet.

This collection of essays maps the heterogeneous and asymmetrical ecologies within which we are enmeshed, a material world that makes the human possible but also offers difficulties and resistance.

Through speculative, poetic, and provocative texts, thirteen writers and artists have come together to reflect on human relationships with other species and the planet.

Object Oriented Environs takes its cue from the philosophical movement Object-Oriented Ontology in the hope of provoking a conversation about how early modernists, or humanists in general, parse the question of matter, of things. This collection emerged from a session of the Shakespeare Association of America meeting in 2014.

The authors put forward the idea of “speculative geology” to explain the violence inherent in volcanism, drawing on three volcanic episodes and the more recent unexpected striking of magma in Iceland’s Krafla volcanic caldera.