COMPOSTING #14: Theory in the Mud (Walkshop)
Thursday January 19, 11am-4pm, Astrida Neimanis
Optional Reading
- Chapter 8 of Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: “The Camille Stories: Children of the Compost”
COMPOSTING #15: Sex in Public
Tuesday, February 14, Jennifer Hamilton
Key Reading
- Lauren Berlant & Michael Warner “Sex in Public” Critical Inquiry 2 (Winter, 1998): 147-566 ; Sarah Ensor “Queer Fallout: Samuel Delany and the Ecology of Cruising” Environmental Humanities (Forthcoming, 2017).
Optional Reading:
- Maggie Nelson The Argonauts (Minneapolis: Greywolf Press, 2015);
- Nicole Seymour “‘Ranch Stiffs’ and ‘Beach Cowboys’ in the Shrinking Public Sphere: Sexual Domestication in Brokeback Mountain and Surf Party” in Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination (Urbana, Chicago & Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2013): 105-146.
COMPOSTING #16: Entangled Plant Embodiment
Tuesday, March 14, Bryn Hutchinson
Key Reading
- Leopold, A 1966, A Sand County Almanac, Ballantine Books, New York, pp. 9-17.
- Myers, N 2016, ‘From Eden Apocalypse to Gardens Against Eden’, in Plants and people in and after the Anthropocene in Infrastructure, Environment and Life in the Anthropocene (Ed) Kregg Hetherington (Under Review) pp. 1-35.
Optional Reading
- Gagliano, M 2016, ‘Seeing green; the rediscovery of plants and nature’s wisdom’, in P Vieira, M Gagliano & J Ryan (eds), The green thread: dialogues with the vegetal world, Lexington Books, London, pp. 19-35.
- Marder, M 2013 Plant-Thinking; a philosophy of vegetali life, Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 54-90.
COMPOSTING #17: Graphic Temporality
Tuesday, May 9, Thomas Wickert
Key Reading
- McGuire, R 2014, Here, Pantheon Books, New York
- Roberts, M F Simone 2012, ‘Écriture Futuriste’, in Henriette Gunkel, Chrysanthi Nigianni and Fanny Söderbäck (eds), Undutiful daughters: New directions in feminist thought and practice, Palgrave Macmillan: New York pp. 49-61.
Optional Reading
- McCloud, S 1993, ‘Time Frames’, in Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, Tundra Publishing: M.A, pp. 94-109.
COMPOSTING #18: Energy
Thursday, May 25, Meet the author with Stephanie LeMenager
Key Reading
- “When Energy is the Focus: Methodology, Politics, and Pedagogy, A Conversation with Brent Ryan Bellamy, Stephanie LeMenager, and Imre Szeman” Postmodern Culture 2 (2016)
- Excerpts from Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) [Prologue, Introduction, and Epilogue]
Optional Reading
- “Infrastructure again, and always” (2016) Reviews in Culture, 3: 25-29 http://reviewsinculture.com/2016/03/09/infrastructure-again-and-always/
- “Editor’s Coloumn” (2014) Resilience: A Journal of Environmental Humanities 1
- “A Poetics of Infrastructure: An Interview with Matt Coolidge” (2014) Resilience: A Journal of Environmental Humanities 1
- https://theconversation.com/cli-fi-literary-genre-rises-to-prominence-in-the-shadow-of-climate-change-25686
Optional Listening
- https://soundcloud.com/scifri/telling-the-story-of-climate-change-in-fiction
- http://culturesofenergy.com/ep-5-stephanie-lemenager-4/
COMPOSTING #19: Walking as Epistemic Practice
Tuesday, Aug 8, Abby Mellick Lopes and Ali Crosby
Key Reading
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Ingold, Tim 2004, Culture on the ground: the world perceived through the feet. Journal of Material Culture, 9(3): 315-340.
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Solnit, Rebecca 2001, Rising and Falling: The Theorists of Bipedalism, in R. Solnit’s Wanderlust: A history of walking. Penguin, pp. 30-45.
Optional Reading
- Solnit, R 2001, ‘Walking After Midnight: Women, Sex, and Public Space’ in R Solnit’s Wanderlust: A history of walking. Penguin, p.232-239.
- Debord, G. 1956 [1958] Theory of the dérive. Available online: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/theory.html
- Ingold, T 2010, ‘Ways of mind-walking: Reading, writing, painting.’ Visual Studies, 25(1): 15-23.
- Knorr-Cetina, K. 2001, ‘Objectual Practice’ in Schatzki, T., Knorr Cetina, K. and Von Savigny, E. The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory. London, Routledge, pp. 184-197. Available online: https://conceptsinsts.wikispaces.com/file/view/PracticeTurnInContemporaryTheory.pdf
- Walking lab: http://walkinglab.org/author/mapping-edges/
- Walking artists’ network: http://www.walkingartistsnetwork.org/
- Heddon, D. and M. Myers 2017, The walking library: mobilising books, places, readers and reading. Performance Research, 22(1): 32-48.
COMPOSTING #20: Military Ecologies
Tuesday, Sep 5, Lindsay Kelley, Astrida Neimanis and Susan Reid
COMPOSTING #21: What would animals say if we asked the right questions?
Tuesday, Oct 10, Undine Sellbach
Readings TBA
COMPOSTING #22: Elemental Kinships
Tuesday, Nov 21, Susie Pratt
Readings TBA
COMPOSTING #23: Going Underground / Fieldtrip-Walkshop
Thursday, Dec 7, Jen Mae Hamilton and Astrida Neimanis
Readings TBA
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