... is that the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone—now an ecological reserve—is paradigmatic or symptomatic, a theater for the complicated libidinal architecture of the kinds of postapocalyptic sites that may in coming years become the primary places for charismatic megafauna to live, and in which conservation becomes the management...

... , this article argues for an alternative conception of the Anthropocene that originates in and through Blackness. Moreover, this article looks at the centrality of literary studies (and its attending methodologies) in building and envisaging the nascent field of Black ecology. henry.ivry@utoronto.ca ©...

... that she traces in ancient atomism and in Gilles Deleuze. She associated enchantment with sensibility, hoping to encourage a different repertoire of sense encounters with the assemblages in which humans participate. Sensibility is the level at which Bennett undertakes political ecology, which she defines...

...Margaret Ronda “Anthropogenic Poetics” considers the new implications for conceiving literary tropes such as personification, apostrophe, and prosopopoeia in light of the ecological relations of the Anthropocene Era, where the nonhuman environment is imbued with signs of human determination...

... with the methodology in single- and coauthored pieces, I have further developed diffractive reading for the immanent epistemology of new materialism. This essay demonstrates through a diffractive reading practice how incorporation and externality, as well as ecology and entanglement, play important roles in a new...

... capitalogenic ecological and social depredations today. Reading Jameson and Latour together offers a way toward affirmative transformation by exposing the need (“horizontal” ideals notwithstanding) for force put into critical tension with common effort to spur the ecosocial planetary repair humans— especially...

... considers the vexed relationship between the commons and state sovereignty, the way in which the common functions as a placeholder for revolutionary subjectivity, the significance of ecology for the commons and vice versa, and the importance of queer, indigenous, feminist, and minoritarian commons...

... science discourses about diet, exercise, and sexuality insist on turning back the evolutionary clock. By returning to the Pleistocene or Paleolithic, these discourses display an evolutionary nostalgia in the face of massive ecological disruption. These popular works incorporate the science of human...

...Joshua Schuster This essay rereads Maurice Blanchot’s The Writing of the Disaster as a guide for the age of the Anthropocene. I consolidate a series of theses from the book that brings out the systemic ecological thought implicit in Blanchot. The essay discusses both the terms of disaster...

... ; her advocacy, versus mainstream cognitive science, of an “ecological” or “dynamic” view of human cognition; and her efforts to challenge or complicate familiar but dubious conceptual dualisms, including, most recently, oversimplified views of the relations between science and religion. Janell Watson...

... Eames and Charles Eames’s animation Powers of Ten , drawing on examples from biology, ecology, and engineering. Scale variance is the opposite of fractal self-similarity and the smooth zoom effect apparent in Powers of Ten . Scale critique shows that the “human species” is not the subject...

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..., visible and thoughtful” (Haeg). Haeg’s project is ongoing, involving not only multiple cities (including San Francisco and Utrecht) but also many associated activities: animal-inspired music and movement, tours of the animal estates, and lectures on urban ecology. Animal Estates shares...

...-interpretation and poetics of materiality, the article brings home a fresh realm of plastic-art with plastic-desire. Copyright © 2021 Virginia Tech 2021 plastic art materiality aesthetic collection imagination Works Cited Ardenne Paul . 2019 . “ Ecological Art—Origins, Reality...

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... landscape—from pastoral ideals to urban decay—demonstrates how Vietnamese Americans complicate conventional understandings of race, space, and citizenship in the Crescent City. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 Asian American diaspora ecology pastoral US South Works Cited Airriess...

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... Goeminne, who in 2011 explains in Once upon a Time I Was a Nuclear Physicist: What the Politics of Sustainability Can Learn from the Nuclear Laboratory that “expert-focused technological determinism, embed- ded in a discourse of ecological modernization, now acts to marginal- ize the issues...

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