Category: Theory/Fiction

-- ∞ "Kin of the Cosmos" (pdf) - Benjamin Klug (2021)   Benjamin Klug is a graduate student in Literary Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His primary area of interest is science fiction and fantasy, as a genre and a source for theoretical constructs, and he comprises one half of the casual Moby-Dick podcast … Continue reading Kin of the Cosmos →

--- ∞ "Review of Navigating the Planetary: A guide to the Planetary Art World—Its Past, Present, and Potentials (H. Amanshauser and K. Bradley)" (pdf) - Doron Darnov, 2021 Doron Darnov is a graduate student in Literary Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include the environmental humanities, space travel, digital media, and visual … Continue reading Review of Navigating the Planetary →

--- ∞ "A blank canvas, a painter's brush: Geoengineering and the Eschaton in Supergiant Game’s Transistor (2014)" (pdf) - Kaitlin Moore, 2021 Geoengineering –– or "deliberate large-scale interventions in the Earth’s climate system, in order to moderate global warming" (Royal Society 2009: ix) –– represents specific ontological and metaphysical assumptions that turn mastery, manipulation, and … Continue reading Geoengineering and the Eschaton in Supergiant Game’s Transistor (2014) →

--- ∞ "Othering Ecology" (pdf) - Nicole Grimaldi, 2021 Nicole Grimaldi is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at New York University (NYU), pursuing a minor specialization in Media, Culture, and Communication. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. She studies critical and political theory, contemporary poetry and poetics, and … Continue reading Othering Ecology →

--- ∞ "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 →