ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Ecocriticism Goes MLA

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Ecocriticism Goes MLA

I just got this: The ASLE leadership is aware of this gap in division status for ecocriticism, and has plans to address it. It is on our EC annual meeting agenda, scheduled for next month, to discuss and make a plan to apply for division status. We will work with our current MLA liaison, Rosario Michelle Ramirez Matabuena, to go through the process. Thanks for your concerns about this, and if you are interested in volunteering to assist with this project, I am sure she would love to have your help. She can be reached at mmr07e@my.fsu.edu. I had never heard a request for ASLE to compile a list of eco-focused panels at MLA, but I think it is a great idea and something we can also pursue in the future. Thanks for all your great ideas and suggestions! Enough of the future, here is something in the now: ASLE Reception at MLA For this year's MLA in Seattle, Rosario has made plans to help raise the profile of ASLE by hosting a small networking meeting and reception: Saturday, January 7 8:45-10pm Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Boren meeting room (listed on their website as located in the Union Street Tower - Fourth Floor). There will be a small selection of desserts and a cash bar--and of course some great people to talk to! If you are attending MLA, please come join us at this event!

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Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. They have collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Justin Guariglia, Olafur Eliasson, and Pharrell Williams. Morton co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future’s Past, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. They are the author of the libretto for the opera Time Time Time by Jennifer Walshe. Morton has written All Art Is Ecological (Penguin, 2021), Spacecraft (Bloomsbury, 2021), Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), 8 other books and 250 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. Morton’s work has been translated into 10 languages. In 2014 they gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory.

“Outstanding.”
—Slavoj Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes

“Dark ecology has the potential to be the punk rock or experimental pop of ecological thinking.”
—Kasino A4

“It isn’t [nature] itself that needs trashing — we’re doing a fine job of that already; it’s our way of thinking about it that needs to be structurally realigned ... it's an important book that, in a scant 205 pages of main text ... frames a debate that no doubt will be carried on for years to come.”
—Vince Carducci, Pop Matters

“He practices what he theorizes: nothing is wasted in his argumentation.”
—Emmanouil Aretoulakis, Synthesis

“Picking up where his most obvious predecessors, Gregory Bateson and Felix Guattari, left off, Morton understands mental ecology as the ground zero of ecological thinking, as that which must be redressed before anything else and above all. Morton goes beyond both his forebears, however, in repairing the rift between science and the humanities, which the Enlightenment opened up and against which Romanticism reacted. Perhaps most pleasantly surprising, given its erudition, is that in its stylistic elegance The Ecological Thought is as satisfying to read as it is necessary to ponder.”
—Vince Carducci

ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Ecocriticism Goes MLA

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