Article ID: CBB532958362

Form across Literature, Science, and the Arts (2018)

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What forms, then, afford us the most possibility when it comes to thinking about our ecological moment? What forms might help us think, if not ecological totality, then interconnectedness and its limitations? These seem to be some of the most important questions we can ask as scholars working in science, literature, and the arts, particularly when our work overlaps with, or is consciously rooted in, the environmental humanities. In my own teaching and research, I am interested in the smallest scales of connection—the forms of relation that help us imagine not the planet as a whole, but the intimate ecologies (as I term them) that comprise and structure it. My understanding is that parasitisms and mutualisms above all have played an outsized role in our understandings of relationality among all organisms since the nineteenth century. But it is clear to me that we need studies of all sorts of forms—forms for imagining proximity as well as distance, for negotiating interdependence as well as its limitations. By proliferating the forms at our disposal, we provide ourselves with new tools for working our way out of the current ecological moment.

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Authors & Contributors
Jones, Brandon
Bloomfield, Mandy
Patricio Flores
Rina C. Faletti
Kim De Wolff
Ignacio López-Calvo
Concepts
Ecosystem
Environmental humanities
Science and literature
Environmental degradation
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Animals
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Australia; New Zealand
Pacific Ocean
United States
North America
Europe
Canada
Institutions
Yellowstone National Park
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