Tag: environment

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."

2011-09-07

Finding the Human in "the messy, contingent, emergent mix of the material world": Embodiment, Place, and Materiality in Stacy Alaimo's Bodily Natures

In this review Veronica Vold charts the posthuman environmental ethic in Stacy Alaimo's Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self and notes how the text draws together issues of race, (dis)ability, and the environment in a way that disrupts the boundaries between bodies and places.

2006-11-10

Awesome and Terrifying

In his review of Lee Rozelle's Ecosublime, Andrew McMurry offers a contrasting understanding of the sublime as a term describing our
closure to nature, not our openness.

2004-08-25

If It Could Be Wrapped

Excerpted from Water Writing - an essay; presented as part of the ebr Critical Ecologies thread; concurrent with a literary Festschrift in honor of Joseph McElroy's lifework.

1996-12-30

Attractions Around Mount St. Helens

Joseph McElroy shares field notes and reflections from Mount St. Helens.

1996-09-01

Observing the Observers of Systems and Environments

Linda Brigham reviews the Spring and Fall 1995 issues of Cultural Critique.

1996-12-30

Scared Straight

Carol Stabile reviews Our Stolen Future.

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