“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, September 2, 2013

Diacritics

I've always been interested in this journal. I think the first essay I ever read in it was Derrida's one on nuclear missiles, in the "Nuclear Criticism" issue. It wasn't until a bit later that I read his "Economimesis," which came first.

I'm contributing an essay to the "Climate Change Criticism" issue--the obvious parallel to the nuclear one is evident.

I like my title and so does the editor, whose awesome comments I have just received ("Best title of the millennium"--though only thirteen years!):

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

The reader's comments are extraordinarily good as well. To be read and understood is quite a wish for us scholars you know.

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