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A Critical Notice on a Book on Primates and Philosophers

Paola Cavalieri challenges the notion of the book "Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved" by Frans de Waal, that human superior ethical worth can be preserved.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/evolving)

Malene Fonnes - 16.10.2017 - 10:22

How to Do Word with Things

One of a series of eco-critical reviews, Stephen Dougherty explores
the new ways that “matter is made to matter” in Ira Livingston’s
writing on science and literature. The payoff of an ecocriticism
grounded in the materiality of language itself, can bee seen by the
strong political positioning toward the end of Dougherty’s essay.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/fractal)

Malene Fonnes - 16.10.2017 - 10:25

On Being Difficult

Ken Hirschkop questions whether poststructuralism and
self-referentiality offer workable alternatives to the military ‘World
Target’ that, according to Rey Chow, provides the framework for
knowledge production in Departments of Comparative Literary Studies.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/transitive)

Malene Fonnes - 16.10.2017 - 10:28

Critical Ecologies: Ten Years Later

Andrew McMurry looks back on ten years of ecocriticism and identifies
a “new physiocracy,” whose exclusive interest in technology is no better than the exclusive valuation of property that typified physiocrats of the Nineteenth-Century.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/ecocritical)

Malene Fonnes - 16.10.2017 - 10:31

Not Just a River

Rob Swigart asks why we keep hearing about a technological fix (dubious) and rarely about adaptation as a viable response to global warming.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/denial)

Malene Fonnes - 16.10.2017 - 10:34

Awesome and Terrifying

In his review of Lee Rozelle’s Ecosublime, Andrew McMurry offers a contrasting understanding of the sublime as a term describing our closure to nature, not our openness.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/contingent)

Malene Fonnes - 16.10.2017 - 10:37

Multimedia Textuality; or, an Oxymoron for the Present

Katherine Acheson’s free-standing hypertext demonstrates how design can reinforce what’s said, offer a counterpoint, and, occasionally, convey a critique of the critic.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/illuminated)

Malene Fonnes - 16.10.2017 - 10:44