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.
Readers are welcome to ponder whether the anticipated insights on “slavery, imperialism, industrialisation, settler colonialism, and militarisation” – arrived at via ecofeminist poetry and listening to lichen, a lifeform with no sound-producing anatomy – will be in any way surprising.
Professor Teare, pictured here, is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
See also, situated bodies and self-other paradigms.
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