“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Monday, March 25, 2013

A New Essay

I'm writing a really long essay for the journal diacritics, for an issue that will be invoke perhaps the most famous issue, “Nuclear Criticism,” for which Derrida contributed one of his best (in my view) essays. This one will be called “Climate Change Criticism.”

I've written a fuzzy version of my essay, which can be about 10 000 words long. I'm very pleased with the title: 


She Stood in Tears Amidst the Alien Corn: Thinking through Agrilogistics

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

great title.
p.s. came across this in an old etymology source:

Resistentialism: The seemingly spiteful behavior shown by inanimate objects — www.ObsoleteWord.Blogspot.com