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The New Formalism of ‘Anthropocene Inscriptions’: A Poetics of the Record

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The V21 Collective (Victorian Studies for the 21st Century) kindly published this non-Victorianist’s response to their recent special issue in Boundary2. Specifically, I respond to Jessee Oak Taylor’s piece “Anthropocene Inscriptions: Reading Global Synchrony”.

“A poetics of this material dynamism might be articulated as lower limit stone / upper limit air.That is to say, literary forms mediate ecological crisis via multiple scales and materialities—climate change is not inaccessible, as some have argued, but merely illegible when we confine our investigation to any single literary period.”

Read my full response here

Teaching and Writing in the Anthropocene

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anthroThanks to those who came out to our spring colloquium. If you’d like to be added to an email list to stay apprised of similar conversations, send me a message here.

 

“Anthropocene”: a word that denotes a new geological epoch precipitated by human impact; a word that reveals what happens when we overexert our agency and fail to understand the world through the perspective of deep time. Everything changes in the context of the Anthropocene; the residue of urgency and crisis is left on our speech, our actions, our writing—even the way we teach.

This discussion will focus on what it means to write and teach in the Anthropocene. What new methodologies, theories, and forms can help us better understand and incorporate the paradigm shift necessitated by theAnthropocene? How is the “ecology” of the classroom informed by the crisis of the Anthropocene?