Object Oriented Environs by Julian Yates
Object Oriented Environs is the lively archive of a critical confluence between the environmental turn so vigorous within early modern studies, and thing theory (object oriented ontology, vibrant materialism, the new materialism and speculative realism). The book unfolds a conversation that attempts to move beyond anthropocentrism and examine nonhumans at every scale, their relations to each other, and the ethics of human enmeshment within an agentic material world. The diverse essays, reflections, images and ephemera collected here offer a laboratory for probing the mystery and potential autonomy of objects, in their alliances and in performance.The book is the trace of an event-space crafted over a day of conversation in two seminars at the Shakespeare Association of America meeting in 2014 in St. Louis and offers its nineteen essays as the end to the work-cycle of the collective we crafted that day. It is a noisy collation, full of bees, bushes, laundry, crutches, lists, poems, plague vectors, planks, chairs, rain, shoes, meat, body parts, books, and assorted humans (living and dead), and also a repertoire of dance steps, ways of configuring the relations between subject and object, actors or actants (human and otherwise). It is also a book that asks readers to ponder their environs, to consider the particularities of their world, of their reading experiences, and to consider what orders of meaning we might be able to derive from attending closely to all the very many things we come into being with.
Contributors include: Lizz Angello, Sallie Anglin, Keith M. Botelho, Patricia A. Cahill, Jeffrey Cohen, Drew Daniel, Christine Hoffmann, Neal Klomp, Julia Lupton, Vin Nardizzi, Tara Pedersen, Tripthi Pillai, Karen Raber, Pauline Reid, Emily Rendek, Lindsey Row-Heyveld, Debapriya Sarkar, Rob Wakeman, Jennifer Waldron, Luke Wilson, and Julian Yates.
At George Washington University, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is a professor of English and the head of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute. He is the author of Medieval Identity Machines and Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages, as well as the editor of Monster Theory: Reading Culture, Prismatic Ecology, and Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Fire, and Water (all from the University of Minnesota Press).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780692642030 |
| ISBN 10 | 069264203X |
| Title | Object Oriented Environs |
| Author | Julian Yates |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Punctum Books |
| Year published | 2016-02-18 |
| Number of pages | 218 |
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