The relationship between houses, domestication, and the gradual shift from cyclic to linear time in human consciousness is discussed at greater length in Swigart’s “Past Futures, Future’s Past.”

Clarke discusses media theory, a distinct but related facet of systems theory, in his review of Friedrich Kittler’s Gramophone, Film, Typewriter.

Carolyn Merchant’s treatment of Gaia in Earthcare was discussed by Stacy Alaimo in the initial 1997 Critical Ecologies.

In a general introduction to Critical Ecologies circa 2006, thread editor Andrew McMurray offers a similar reversal, when he asks readers of this journal whether they fit the profile of the ‘new physiocrat,’ the present embodiment of positivism in critical writing.

Joe Amato draws connections between Louis Zukofsky and novelist Richard Powers. Joe Amato draws connections between Louis Zukofsky and novelist Richard Powers.