tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91128100538055619302024-02-02T14:42:47.379-08:00Underground Ecocriticism Underground Ecocriticism is a conference workshop at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada | November 2-3, 2012 | Edo Edi EssumAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05590285657916074969noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112810053805561930.post-73531388819190970802013-03-14T08:24:00.000-07:002013-03-14T08:24:46.735-07:00<div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Abstract</b>: My talk explores the practice of thinking Thoreau enacted through his walks. I argue that Thoreau’s walks differed in important ways from the famous examples of British romantics that found their most rigorous philosophical articulation in Kant’s “how to orient oneself in thinking.” Unlike Kant and the romantics, who walked so that they could find the self, gather their thoughts and even, like Wordsworth, compose poems, Thoreau walks to forget all of his thoughts; not to find but instead to lose himself completely, and “never to return.” I thus ask what kind of thought is predicated on such an injunction, or even desires disorientation, confusion, loss, fear and awe. In seeking to answer those questions I suggest that Thoreau's wish to experience radical impoverishment and to “lose himself completely” is predicated on the astonishing theory of dreams that he developed throughout his Journal, recording and then analyzing his own dreams about walking. By charting the complex dynamic of dreaming, sleeping and awakening that Thoreau outlines in recording his “walking dreams,” I attempt to reconstruct the relations between self-loss and self-awakening, migration and metamorphosis, forgetting and remembering that fashion the practice of thinking he hopes to achieve through walking.</span><span style="font-family: Century;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Bio</b>: </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Professor Branka </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;">Arsić</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"> is the author of </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson </i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">(Harvard UP, 2010), and a book on Melville entitled </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Passive Constitutions or 7 ½ Times Bartleby</i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"> (Stanford UP, 2007). She has co-edited (with Cary Wolfe) a collection of essays on Emerson, entitled </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">The Other Emerson: New Approaches, Divergent Paths </i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">(University of Minnesota Press, 2010). She has written on, among others, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Stanley Cavell and on topics such as captivity, passivity, abandonment, impersonality, ordinary language philosophy and the ethics of leaving. Her articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">American Studies</i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">, </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Common Knowledge</i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">, </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Diacritics, ELH, New England Quarterly </i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">and </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Nineteenth-<wbr></wbr>Century Prose</i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">. She is currently completing a book entitled </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Magical Life: Mourning and Vitalism in Thoreau,</i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;"> discussing the radical way in which Thoreau related mourning practices to biological life by articulating a complex theory of decay, and proposing a new understanding of the pathological. Her second project, </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">Dream Faces: Life and the Formation of Persons in Melville</i><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">, explores the astounding treatment of faces in Melville, how they are never presumed or simply observed, but instead emerge fleetingly or quickly disappear. By examining the question of the animal face via defacements of turtles, dogs and horses, the book will seek to reconstruct different strategies of facing or defacement of humans.</span></div>
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The Waking<br />
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I strolled across<br />
An open field;<br />
The sun was out;<br />
Heat was happy.<br />
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This way! This way!<br />
The wren's throat shimmered,<br />
Either to other,<br />
The blossoms sang.<br />
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The stones sang,<br />
The little ones did,<br />
And flowers jumped<br />
Like small goats.<br />
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A ragged fringe<br />
Of daisies waved;<br />
I wasn't alone<br />
In a grove of apples.<br />
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Far in the wood<br />
A nestling sighed;<br />
The dew loosened<br />
It's morning smells.<br />
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I came where the river<br />
Ran over stones:<br />
My ears knew<br />
An early joy.<br />
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And all the waters<br />
Of all the streams<br />
Sang in my veins<br />
That summer day.<br />
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--Roethke<br />
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<i>I think I'm so educated and I'm so civilized </i></div>
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<i>But with the over-population and inflation and starvation</i></div>
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<i>I don't feel safe in this world no more </i></div>
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<i>I don't want to die in a nuclear war</i></div>
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<i>I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an ape man</i></div>
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<i>I look out my window, but I can't see the sky</i></div>
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<i>'Cos the air pollution is fogging up my eyes</i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05590285657916074969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112810053805561930.post-78462901414241214002013-01-14T11:33:00.001-08:002013-01-14T11:33:42.787-08:00What a wonderfully weird find today; enjoy the sonorous flatulence of the bee's bottom:<br />
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Imminent Doom<br />
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THIS frail and fragrant morning<br />
Is streaming on toward noon;<br />
Listen to my warning!<br />
There will be buzzing soon.<br />
Soon we shall be shaken<br />
Like flowers and gold grass<br />
And all our pollen taken<br />
By a bee with bowels of brass.<br />
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-Genevieve TaggardAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05590285657916074969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112810053805561930.post-35680956655687501942012-11-03T05:58:00.001-07:002012-11-03T05:58:21.094-07:00Today's Stream<a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/undergroundecosat" style="border: 0px; color: #409eff; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, FreeSans, 'Liberation Sans', 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/undergroundecosat</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05590285657916074969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112810053805561930.post-63719723990367073572012-11-02T07:45:00.001-07:002012-11-02T07:45:58.938-07:00Another Try http://www.ustream.tv/channel/undergroundeco1Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05590285657916074969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112810053805561930.post-19889379460029194162012-11-02T04:19:00.001-07:002012-11-02T04:20:18.642-07:00LiveHopefully we can get this to work when the time comes: <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/undergroundeco">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/undergroundeco</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05590285657916074969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112810053805561930.post-13182465554190958262012-11-02T04:02:00.000-07:002012-11-02T04:02:01.068-07:00SerendipityThe underground sprouts and shows us a sign in a drinking fountain in University College at Western: <br />
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It begins.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05590285657916074969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112810053805561930.post-86477278557904697792012-11-01T20:14:00.000-07:002012-11-01T20:14:08.698-07:00Climate Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Change<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;">Underground ecocriticism
rejects any philosophy or model of ecology that disavows risk, failure, and living
within the tenuous and sometimes bad feelings that circulate around us. </span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;">Biodiversity involves both resilience
and fragility, exposure and exchange, building upon others and allowing oneself
to be built upon. Instead of assuming that being sunny and being ecological are
the same thing, we can consider here together how things that are awkward,
broken, dark, precarious, and gawky work as untimely agents.</span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;">These ungainly agents are not accidental
to daily life but are built into the fabric of reality.</span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;">We reject ecologies that promise ahead
of time outcomes that will be risk-free visions of the good, the regenerative,
the healthy, consilience.</span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;">The terms of ecology – just like the terms of ontology – are not predicated
in advance. </span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;">They are open-ended and
vulnerable, capable of being developed and destroyed.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05590285657916074969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112810053805561930.post-63177378531004734562012-10-29T09:35:00.002-07:002012-10-30T15:42:12.590-07:00Looking forward to this collection!<br />
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<a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415625821/" target="_blank">Details</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05590285657916074969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112810053805561930.post-2777493912850681812012-10-28T07:26:00.000-07:002012-10-28T07:26:53.147-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Check out <a href="http://songandsin.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/tim-morton-is-coming-to-the-theory-centre/" target="_blank">song, and sin</a>, too!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05590285657916074969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112810053805561930.post-55993144425018060052012-10-24T10:22:00.001-07:002012-10-24T10:25:01.049-07:00<br />
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"Education is not knowledge. Nor is it the necessary means to acquire knowledge. [...] One may acquire an education, as if it was a thing, but one becomes knowledgeable through a process of transformation. Knowledge, as such, is only every partially captured by education. Knowledge as a practice always eludes and exceeds it" (McKenzie Wark). </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05590285657916074969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112810053805561930.post-38728618449568579512012-10-23T21:35:00.000-07:002012-10-23T21:35:25.732-07:00A provocative passage from Countee Cullen's "The Shroud of Color":<br />
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Across earth's warm, palpitating crust<br />
I flung my body in embrace; I thrust<br />
My mouth into the grass and sucked the dew,<br />
Then gave it back in tears my anguish drew;<br />
So hard I pressed against the ground, I felt<br />
The smallest sandgrain like a knife, and smelt<br />
The next year's flowering; all this to speed<br />
My body's dissolution, fain to feed<br />
The worms. And so I groaned, and spent my strength<br />
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And quivered like a flayed and bleeding thing.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05590285657916074969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112810053805561930.post-27271364593890949022012-10-23T15:15:00.000-07:002012-10-23T15:15:00.251-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The underground is unending. We want to help collect the collective - contact us if you are interested in anything and everything underground. | <b>underground.ecocriticism@gmail.com </b>|Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05590285657916074969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112810053805561930.post-83601800346897537182012-10-23T15:05:00.002-07:002012-10-23T15:05:50.520-07:00We are working away at the workshop. Homestretch. Are you ready for the preposterously underground?<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05590285657916074969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9112810053805561930.post-60983415374588246072012-10-19T13:36:00.002-07:002012-10-19T13:36:36.121-07:00Hello!<br />
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Take a look around campus for our posters! We're two weeks away now from the workshop. With all the hustle and bustle, we are trying to keep <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0evZOnpUt4" target="_blank">cool, calm, and collected</a>.<br />
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A big thank you to SSHRC for supporting this event!<br />
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We here at The Underground would like to take this opportunity to sincerely voice our gratitude to SSHRC and everybody else who has contributed.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Thank you for visiting the site. The underground is happening. And we are very excited. Please take the time to peruse through the site and contact us if you have any questions. Also, here is a sneak peak of the poster - we are forever indebted to <a href="http://www.uwo.ca/visarts/faculty/wood/wood.html" target="_blank">Kelly Wood</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> successions of diseas'd corpses, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It distills such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> sumptuous crops, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> -Walt Whitman, "This Compost" </span><br />
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