Learning to Die →Multispecies Relationality in Cross-Temporal Extinction Narratives
On learning to grieve extinction as a communing process, rather than attempting to ceaslessly outrun it. Traces a line from silphium, the first recorded anthropocenic plant extinction, to the sago palms under threat of elimination today, and argues that storytelling itself is a way of subverting anthropogenic extinctions.
Planthropology · 26W · Ecology · Extinction
Suffering Nature →Towards an Ecopoetic of Sensibility, Distance, and (Non)personhood
An attempt at articulating a queer ecopoetic that embraces nonpersonhood, the elimination of the self, to relate to a dying world. Reads various pieces of ecopoetry against queer ecology to argue for a poetic of shared suffering with the environment.
Garden Politics · 25F · Ecopoetics · Queer Theory