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...Carla Hustak; Natasha Myers This essay puts forth a theory of “affective ecologies” encompassing plant, animal, and human interactions. The authors’ formulation of “involution” favors a coevolution of organisms that act not on competitive pressures but on affective relations. Drawing in particular...

... of these films, the burden of the capitalist world on human life can be felt, and in that feeling, these films gain a political—even ecological—inflection. Max Ophuls waste cinema garbage disposal film theory objects stuff Most people’s lives, what are they but trails of debris? Each day more...

... of questions of what stands before meaning—this is a politics of noise and speech, rather than one focusing on speech and language. Second, the article keys in to a certain reorganization of the senses emerging in contemporary, pervasively mediated ecology—seeking to outline what might be termed...

... very much exploited and left to ruin in our ecologically conscious epoch. From that position, Irigaray is able to acknowledge and appreciate plant life as not only a key element for our individual existence in the world but also for our apprenticeship in coexisting with others. However, her work...

...: Affective Ecologies and the Sciences of Plant/Insect Encounters .” Roosth and Schrader 74 – 118 . Kirby Vicki . “ Initial Conditions .” Roosth and Schrader 197 – 205 . Margulis Lynn Sagan Dorion . Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species . New York : Basic , 2002...

... concerned with those relations, including the movement for animal rights, ecological ethics, posthumanist theory, and such fi elds as primatology and evolutionary psychology. I begin with some general observations on kin and kinds—that is, relations...

... if the conference succeeds? And if it fails? In what ways will our lives be overturned? What kind of society will it take to enforce the ecological imperative? On all these questions, science provides answers that are few and contradictory. Here, we give the floor to literature. ( Joffrin ii ; my translation...

... are familiar: they furnish a simulation of the real thing, solicit- ing the sensation of unmediated encounter with marine worlds. In their most benign form, they act as sites of ecological hope, maybe even care. More typically, they give us...

..., and the Fabulation of Civilizational Identities.” 23.1: 1–31. Hustak, Carla, and Natasha Myers. “Involutionary Momentum: Affective Ecologies and the Sciences of Plant/Insect Encounters.” 23.3: 74–118. Kates, Joshua. “Against the Period.” 23.2...

..., engaging paradoxes of economic and ecological precarity alongside high-end consumption. Alice Jardine observed of her friend, “Brennan was just beginning to outline how this deathly process might be reversed when she was killed, ironically, by an anonymous speeding car” (71). Linda Martín Alcoff recalled...

... and Ocean Acidification .” Science ( 14 Dec. 2007 ): 1737 – 42 . Hughes T. P. . “ Climate Change, Human Impacts, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs .” Science ( 15 Aug. 2003 ): 929 – 33 . Hustak Carla Myers Natasha . “ Involutionary Momentum: Affective Ecologies...

... identifies correspondences between the “blinding” hypervisu- ality of autistic persons (that renders viewed objects unyieldingly opaque) and nonhuman animals whose lives are ecologically intertwined because of their mutual blindness...

..., and test user of various prototypes, I immersed myself in what Stengers calls “ecologies of practices.”6 I examined how interdisciplinary understandings of memory differences...

.... Georges Van Den Abbeele. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988 . Shiva, Vandana. Monocultures of the Mind . Penang: Third World Network, 1993 . ____. Staying Alive: Woman, Ecology, and Development in India . New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1988...

... . Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things . Durham : Duke UP , 2010 . Bogost Ian Monfort Nick . Platform Studies . http://platformstudies.com ( accessed 20 Aug. 2013 ). ———. Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Game System . Cambridge : MIT P , 2009 . Brown Travis...

...: New York up, 1999 . 182 -209. Metz, Christian. “Aural Objects.” Trans. Georgia Gurrieri. Yale French Studies 60 ( 1980 ): 24 -32. Morton, Timothy. Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics . Cambridge, ma: Harvard up, 2007 . Moten, Fred. In the Break...

... always been debt cancellation. And eighteenth-century French and American revolutionaries thought that the debts of one generation should not have to be a burden for the next. But on the other hand, narratives of colonial debt and “ecological debt” also tell us of irreducible debts, debts without...

.... . Harmondsworth, UK : Penguin , 1976 . Daly Mary . Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism . Boston : Beacon , 1978 . Dworkin Andrea . Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics . New York : Harper , 1976 . Dworkin Andrea . Pornography: Men Possessing...

...” to whom we should give include animals and “plants, or perhaps even mountains, rocks, and streams” ( Expanding 121 ). It paves the way for a philosophy of ecology and antispeciesism that is perhaps a point of compatibility with Derrida’s thinking. The third reason is that it forces the Derridean...

..., if not ecological, conceptualization of ontological production as coproduction highly compelling. It bespeaks an understanding of film as an essentially intersubjective as well as experiential endeavor that cannot be reduced to an aesthetic object. The decentering of the object of film studies, the revelation...