... Proceeding from a posi­ tion known as deep ecology (which places the Earth n o t hum an beings at the center o f an environm ental ethic),Joplin approvingly finds Wordsworth moving towards a potentially eco­ logical w orld as he rejects a hum an-centered, o r anthropocentric, approach to the Earth...

... in the developm ent of the environm ental hum anities. W hat objects of inquiry are being addressed; by w hat newer or older conceptual/cultural forces and desires are they being pushed or pulled? Do their paths diverge or cross? W hat debates are they initiating? W hat paths are they describing? A t this moment...

... a litie s and in ­ extricable ties w ith o th er hum ans, living things, and the w o rld around us. Yet m uch about our experiences and conceptions of the self have yet to be adequately explained. W hile the various insights o f psychoanalysis, psychology, post-structuralism , historical m aterialism...

... clustering roses A nd through the open window sighs (1-6)12 This is, indeed, a recreation of the stylized pastoral that Words­ worth rejects: sum m er is golden, forests are g reen , birds gush a song to welcome the sunrise of calming, seren e light. The wind is a gentle ally to hum ans and nature...

... hum ans had access to two sorts of perceptions in the Cartesian paradigm, the one caused by the soul, the other by the body, animal behavior was reduced to the movements of nerves and muscles. Descartes s prim ary evidence o f the m ind­ less beast was the absence of speech, a conclusion defended...

... and their starfish-like sexual organs to their urgent need to interbreed w ith humanity. Xenophobia aside, hum anity is in no position to resist the Oankali, who have rescued a tiny fragm ent o f hum anity that was w iltin g in the face of nuclear winter. Lilith, an anthropology student w ho was traveling to Macchu...

... AND WORDSWORTH S NUTTING Man is a real Narcissus hefinds his own image everywhere and sees the whole world against the backdrop of his own self. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every poet is really Narcissus. August Wilhelm Schlegel In construing Goethe and Schlegel s aphoristic statements about hum...

... ight begin merely w ith an evolutionary explanation o f the im pact o f the digital hum anities one o f incremental changes introduced into the hum ani­ ties from w ith in and see how far it takes us. In fact, such an explanation takes us quite far. The evolutionary metaphor is apt because the origin...

... as we do so in a more "ecologically responsible" way. On the other horizon looms the familiar shore of the traditional environm entalist narrative: if we cease to seek mastery over the Earth and preserve w hat is le ft of the natural w orld untouched by hum anity, we can reverse the damage we have done...

... exclaims, How strange and deplorable is the fate of hum an reason, th a t the worst of hereticks, nay the heathens themselves, should with an hypothesis altogether absurd and contradictory, be able to explain, what we experience, a hundred times b etter than orthodox Christians [sic\ do with a supposition...

... protagonist fall from grace when he heads to London and succumbs to that city s wicked temptations. The city in general clearly has great metaphorical value for Auden, and this is especially true when it is taken to be a m etaphor for the hum an body, as can be found in poems such as Kairos and Logos...

... to the Fall and to the biblical concept of 2 English Language Notes hum ankind as exiles: strangers and pilgrims on earth .' As a re­ sult of their transgression Adam and Eve were not only sentenced to a life o f hard labor b u t also expelled from the G arden of Eden; the place of security and plenty...

..., or this, the way hum an beings would conduct themselves in a situation in which no o rder existed. 2 However analytically or abstractly conceived by the interpreters, the state o f n atu re nevertheless always functions as some kind of fantasy condition or situation. The idea often seems to be th at the state o...

... lity, a d e -p rio ritizin g o f the hum an subject and its privileged categories (w orld, history, the market) and a de-hierarchizing o f life fo rm s such th a t there is "n o to p ob je ct (such as God) and no b o ttom object (such as m a t­ ter3 Such horizontalizing extends to include the tem poral...

... th e rs. The d e bate s a b o u t th e vio le n ce in C o lo g n e fu r th e r s u g g e s t th a t w h e re w e do n o t a tte n d c a re fu lly to th e c irc u la tio n o f ra c is t s tru c tu re s and d iscou rses, or the im p o rta n ce o f hum an s e c u rity to u n d e rsta n d in g s o f hum...

...-e ffa cin g at all it's rather that th e y're h a p py to see th e m se lve s In th e ir w o rk, since w h a t is g o o d fo r them m ust be g o o d fo r you, too. W here Am I Then? It's strange trying to im agine a tim e w ith o u t individuals. N ot a tim e w ith o u t hum an people, m in d you...

... stances, such notions as national sove reignty and pu blic u n iv e rsity are rendered paradoxical. S ym p to m ­ atic o f this shadow y slippage between public and private is the recent cla m or fo r "p u b lic hum anities" (as if they have ever been anything else) and the canard of "alternate careers...

...Fred Botting Copyright © 2010 Regents of the University of Colorado 2010 A-FFECT-LESS: ZOMBI E-HORROR-SHOCK F r e d B o ttin g Monkey Patients Dust, smoke, explosions, cries o f alarm , fear and pain. Bloody, beaten bodies and the m an­ gled rem ains o f a car. H and-held shots o f hum...

... international la w hum an­ ita rian and hu m a n rig h ts a lik e and In te rn a tio n al n a rrative in trig u in g . Despite reproaches from indignant human rights organizations and w ary policy pundits, the O bam a a d m in is tra tio n so ld ie re d on. Hum an Rights Watch (HRW), in an O ctober 4, 2011...

...Philippe Codde Copyright © 2005 Regents of the University of Colorado 2005 September 2005 63 NO ENEMY, NO BETRAYER, NO BEARDED TORTURER : THE DEATH OF GOD, THE HOLOCAUST, AND EXISTENTIALISM IN WALLANT S THE HUM AN SEASON With my last breath I will curse you. E.L. W allan t1 Introduction...