...Branka Arsić Copyright © 2014 Qui Parle 2014 ARTICLES Our Things Thoreau on Objects, Relics, and Archives branka arsić Distantly related things are strangely near. —Thoreau, Journal, May 23, 1851 Thoreau is as much obsessed with things as he is with oak trees...

... concern for the unique value of human belonging ( ap , 56). Similarly, Thoreau’s writings on John Brown suggest that Brown succeeded insofar as he planted the “seeds” of change that, with the guidance of inhuman material forces, would gradually transform society; however, this avowal threatens to render...

.... Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. Snorton, C. Riley. Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. Thorson, Robert M. Walden’s Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science. Cambridge: Harvard...

..., Gustave Courbet, Eakins, Theodor Fontane, Henry David Thoreau, Karl Marx, and Franz Kafka, to name the most significant. The majority of these comparisons are illuminating — the affinities with Kierke- gaard in particular (living for a time in Menzel's Berlin) are persua- sive and bring out...

... theory at John Hopkins University, follows the partici- pation of nonhumans in Western political thought and practices. Drawing on the work of Spinoza, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Darwin, Adorno, and Deleuze, she puts forth a theory that recognizes the role of nonhuman forces in events...

... and plant less? Such commitment to life owes as much to Thoreau’s “wild- ness” as it does to Darwin’s “entangled bank.” I choose to think of Thoreau as an early poet of the Third Landscape, of the rail- way cut, his Walden no wilderness, his own social blindness a kind...

... the radical way in which Thoreau related mourning prac- tices to biological life by articulating a complex theory of decay. banu bargu is assistant professor of political science at the New School for Social Research. Her main area of specialization is polit- ical theory, especially modern...

... in a meadow. We should gain empirical understanding alongside aes- thetic pleasure from environmental texts (e.g., reading the work of Thoreau, John Muir, or John Clare as fi eld guides) and borrow observations and methods from the biological and environmental sciences. The critical theory approach...

... the faint jerk on Thoreau’s nocturnal fi shing line that in Walden in- terrupts his dream- fi shing in the sky, remains a conceptual truth that reality-testing may or may not confi rm—an article of faith that can quickly sour into the twin fantasies of destructive omnipotence or powerlessness...

... the obvious fact that one can enter and cross the same river many times. (But, we learn to ask, will the river be the same, fi lled with the same water?) Or take Henry David Thoreau’s aphorism: “Men have become the tools of their tools.” The conventional re- lationship between men...

... fi gures like British romantic poet John Clare, Henry David Thoreau, and John Muir, more consequential for sec- ond-stage ecocritics were the likes of Charles Dickens (who was deeply involved in Victorian-era public health environmentalism), the American “muckraking” novelist Upton Sinclair...

... escaped the eidetic realm of metaphysics, a gesture anticipated in the metaphorologies of UNFAMILIAR METHODS 99 Emerson, Thoreau and Peirce. The extent to which Rorty remains dependent upon the rhetoric of Romantic creativity is evident...

... Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (Cambridge: Har- vard University Press, 1995), 7–8. 27. Surprisingly, the result is not a lack of embodiment so much as an amorphous embodiment, as the game offers several forms of interac...

... later you're too shy to get out on the floor. Hell, half the world wants to be like Thoreau at Walden worrying about the noise of traffic on the way to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. l...