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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And yet I can guarantee you that when it’s time for the class to discuss the topic, there will be ample wordage to fill the allotted time. And all of it, without exception, will be more pretentious word salad, spouted by those students who have a certain gift of gab, that permits them to string together words like a post-modern essay generator.
I was never able to do that — say nothing with lots of words, being sure to include the latest buzzwords and circumlocutions. I can’t even use buzzwords in a workplace setting.
I’m not 100% sure that beard was grown by natural testosterone, if you catch my meaning.
Ok, this is fun … some inspired casting.
Here’s the chappie with the megaphone who welcomed the men who leapfrogged him with the IEDs.
Is he clueless about the danger he was in, or is he incapable of fear?
Because if the latter, that’s one of the symptoms of psychopathy.
I don’t think we can afford to attribute their behavior to ignorance, naivete, arrogance, or insanity. Some of these folks at the top know exactly what’s going on, and they’re completely down with it.
Because the issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.
As for the would-be bombers, they were both born in the USA to parents from Afghanistan and Turkey. They appear to be fairly wealthy families, too.
Indeed. I would totally pay to see that.