Category: Theory/Fiction

--- ∞ "Hosting the Ghost: On Limbo Aesthetics" (pdf) - Frédéric Neyrat, 2021 Frédéric Neyrat is a French philosopher, Associate Professor and Mellon-Morgridge Professor of Planetary Humanities in the English department of UW-Madison (USA), editor of Alienocene.

--- ∞ “The Planet Does Not Return Our Gaze” (pdf) - Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2020 First published as "La planète ne nous renvoie pas notre regard" (Centre Pompidou, November 11, 2020 - interview: Mathieu Potte-Bonneville). Text edited by Doron Darnov and Dipesh Chakrabarty. Dipesh Chakrabarty is currently the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, … Continue reading The Planet Does Not Return Our Gaze →

--- ∞ "Planetary Entanglements and Entrapments: Review of Lukáš Likavčan’s Introduction to Comparative Planetology" (pdf) - Mojca Penca Mojca Penca is a PhD candidate in Literary Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her current interests lead her to explore the curious and oftentimes puzzling intersections of Asian American literature, environmental humanities and Hallyu. Studying the … Continue reading Planetary Entanglements and Entrapments →

--- ∞ "The Fungal Kingdom" (pdf) - Derek Woods, 2020 Derek Woods writes about ecology, technology, and modern narrative in relation to the history of science. His first article was an endangered species report on the lichen Leptogium platynum, and he has lectured at the Vancouver and San Francisco Mycological Societies. With Karen Pinkus, he recently edited an … Continue reading The Fungal Kingdom →

--- ∞ "The Damned of the Alienocene: Reclaiming the Disaster" (pdf) - Sean Singh Matharoo, 2020 Sean Singh Matharoo is a transdisciplinary scholar of French- and English-language speculative literature, media, and philosophy, which he studies in the contexts of postcolonial studies, the energy humanities, and performance studies. As part of the Carolina Postdoctoral Program for … Continue reading The Damned of the Alienocene: Reclaiming the Disaster →

--- ∞ "What You Do Not See Still Exists: On Alexis Pauline Gumbs' Dub: Finding Ceremony" (pdf) - Iseult Gillespie, 2020 Iseult Gillespie is a PhD candidate in Literary Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her forthcoming articles explore autotheory, crip theory, and necropolitics. Her dissertation examines how biology is translated into contemporary cultural forms, … Continue reading What You Do Not See Still Exists (On Dub: Finding Ceremony) →

--- ∞ "Ends of the World: Deconstruction and Frank Wilderson’s Afropessimism" (pdf) - Thom Van Camp, 2020 Thom Van Camp is a PhD Candidate in Literary Studies at UW-Madison. His research takes a presentist approach to 19th century British romanticism and its entanglements with abolition, reading romantic poetry alongside current work in Black Studies. He … Continue reading Ends of the World: Deconstruction and Frank Wilderson’s Afropessimism →

--- ∞ "Mental Distancing" (pdf) - Sara Baranzoni, 2020 Sara Baranzoni coordinates the Undergraduate program in Theatre Creation and teaches Performance subjects at the Universidad de las Artes in Guayaquil (Ecuador). She is also Adjunct Lecturer at the Technological University of Dublin, Ireland. Her research interests focus on Performance studies, Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology … Continue reading Mental Distancing →