What Did The Lichen Say To You?
The class, since you ask, is Ecofeminist Poetry & Poetics. Taught by a Professor of English, Brian Teare, who will, we’re assured, situate relationships and encourage re-feeling.
Professor Teare will also reveal, in ways somewhat mysterious, how “chattel slavery, imperialism, industrialisation, settler colonialism, and militarisation” can be understood – and righteously tutted about – by listening to “birds, goats, willow oaks, and lichen.”
Those suitably intrigued will “listen across species.” Having forked over the suitable fee, of course.
Because an intersection had to be mentioned at some point, obviously. One must be seen wearing that rhetorical jewellery.
Professor Teare, pictured here, is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
See also, situated bodies and self-other paradigms.
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It’s for kids who think word salad is clever.
Pretty much.
Ecofeminist poetry is, it seems, some kind of multi-tool. Applicable everywhere, however implausibly, and via whatever convolution is required. You can probably use it to get the stones out of horses’ hooves.
The course notes also make clear how impressively black some of the quoted authors are. Because that’s a credential now and bestows instant gravitas, apparently.
I very much doubt you could salvage anything of value from their world.
The carpets, maybe.
I wonder if he pees on the plants right before students come into the room.
For those who missed the reference.