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One of a series of eco-critical reviews, Stephen Dougherty explores the new ways that "matter is made to matter" in Ira Livingston's writing on science and literature. The payoff of an ecocriticism grounded in the materiality of language itself, can bee seen by the strong political positioning toward the end of Dougherty's essay.

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Another Foucauldian work, like Livingston’s concerned with performativity and self-reference in literary theory, is Rey Chow’s Age of the World Target, given the third degree by reviewer Ken Hirschkop. Read the review here.

Another Foucauldian work, like Livingston’s concerned with performativity and self-reference in literary theory, is Rey Chow’s Age of the World Target, given the third degree by reviewer Ken Hirschkop. Read the review here.

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Stephen Dougherty critiques the usefulness of systems theory in his review of Andrew McMurry’s Environmental Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Systems of Nature, calling instead for “a new sense of how epistemology and ontology can complement one another.” Read the complete review here.

‐ Stefanie Boese

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