Author: John Bruni

John Bruni is Visiting Assistant Professor of American Literature at Grand Valley State University. He has published articles on systems theory, ecocriticism, and literary narratives, and is completing a book manuscript, Scientific Americans: The Making of Popular Science and Evolution in Early-Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture.

Essays in EBR by John Bruni

2009-04-28

Thinking Past Ourselves: Ecology and the Ethics of Cross-Species Partnerships

John Bruni evaluates current proposals for animal rights and green capitalism, questioning whether the legal and economic discourse with which the question of animal life as thus far been bound up will ever allow us, as Cary Wolfe proposes, to think past ourselves.

John Bruni
2010-12-02

Being Not Us

John Bruni suggests that Cary Wolfe's new essay collection explores the various cognitive fictions of humanism and carves out a functional role for systems-influenced theory and art.

John Bruni
2011-09-14

Review of Stacy Alaimo's Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self

Beginning his review by reflecting on the book's cover art, John Bruni speculates that a punk aesthetic runs throughout Alaimo's posthuman environmentalism. Providing brief treatments of each chapter, he argues that the book's trans-corporeal understanding of the relationship between bodies and places disrupts "the very heart of what we know about ourselves."

John Bruni