Fire, Nomadic Science, and Ancestral Generosity
As we reach the close of Inhuman Nature, we finally begin to gain a sense for what Nigel Clark’s radical project is trying to do. I see it as instilling […]
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A(s)cene Aesthetics
Last week, Lee led us through an exercise that helped to contextualize the minuteness of the period in which humans (and modern life on Earth) have existed. Dovetailing off of […]
Nigel Clark Continued: Chapters 3. After the Tsunami and 4. Quaking
We continue in week nine to study the Anthropocene using Nigel Clark’s book Inhuman Nature as a way of conceptualizing an earth system without a human presence, or a nature […]
Further orientations (continued)
1. Eileen Crist, “On the Poverty of Our Nomenclature. Environmental Humanities 3 (2013), 129-147. In last week’s class we discussed the traditional separation of human and natural history for reasons […]