![]() ![]() "Processual Practices," Southern Atlantic Quarterly, 100.2 (Spring 2001), special number on Michel de Certeau, 483-500. Her recent Articles include "Chaosmopolis," Theory of Culture and Society 19, 1-2 (2002), special issue on "Cosmopolis,"185-198. With Irving Goh (2013). She is the author os a creative book: The War against the Beavers (2003 2005). & introduced (1991) Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine (1984 expanded edition, 1991), Nancy Now. & introduced (1990) Hélène Cixous: Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector and Tsvetaeva. (1993 1997), Hélène Cixous (1992), Hélène Cixous: Reading with Clarice Lispector, ed. Her research fields include Critical and Cultural Theory Politics and Aesthetics Ecology and Technology Contemporary Fiction and Film. Her books include Spatial Ecologies: Urban Sites, State and World Space in French Cultural Theory (2012) Littérature, politique et communisme: Lire “Les Lettres françaises,” (1942-1972) (2005) Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Theory (2007), Rethinking Technologies, ed. Verena Conley is Director of Graduate Studies and Long Term Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Language s and Literature in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard. We will complement them with critical readings by Jane Bennett, Rosi Braidotti, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Pheng Cheah, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, Brian Massumi, Timothy Morton, Jussi Parikka, Isabelle Stengers, Imre Szeman, Alexander Weheliye. Works of fiction include Amitav Ghosh, Ursula Le Guin, Indra Sinha, Anna Tsing, Ken Saro-Wiwa and others. We will study critical and fictional texts with emphasis on how they cross national and disciplinary boundaries. We will first see how new materialisms reconfigure relations between human, non-human, animate and inanimate, global and local. They draw attention to the entanglements and self-organizing powers of several hon-human processes explore dissonant relations between those processes and cultural practices reconsider too the sources of ethics, and commend the need to fold a cosmological dimension more regularly into local and global politics. New materialisms rethink what we call subjectivity by stressing the presence of inhuman forces within the human. In all their diversity, new materialisms include works that contest Descartes’ taxonomic categories, based on primary and secondary qualities, that informed the politics of colonialism, the separation of nature and culture, the control of women and other minorities since the advent of early modernity. In this seminar we will study what ties environmental humanities to new materialisms. Verena Conley, "Environmental Humanities and New Materialisms"
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