Essays Coming


The piece on plexiglass chairs for Marina Zurkow's Petroleum Manga project is done and nearly out.

My essay for Olafur Eliasson is being revised (hi Olafur! Thanks for the kindnesses!)

The essay on Irigaray and ecology for The Journal for the British Society for Phenomenology is still happening. It is called “This Biosphere Which Is Not One.”

I wrote “Paula Dawson, Hyperobject Detector” for an exhibition of her work called Hyperobject: Homeland.

I'm writing what is now called “Colored Space” on the elements and the elemental for Jeffrey Cohen.

I'm writing “Derrida and Ecology” for Claire Colebrook.

I've written “Ecology” for Imre Szeman and Patricia Yaeger.

The International Social Studies issue on ecology is now happening as is my essay in it called “From Modernity to the Anthropocene.”

I'm revising “She Stood in Tears amidst the Alien Corn” for diacritics.

I've done my essay “Buddhist Objects” for Bryant and Bogost.

I'm now writing “Specters of Ecology” for a big essay collection (Fordham) that also promises to be major, probably called The New Ecological Paradigm.

Ashgate (TBA) is publishing “She Walks in Beauty like the Night in Which All Cows are Black.”

Romanticism is publishing “Romantic Ecology Revisited.”

The Yearbook of Comparative Literature will publish an essay called “The Future of Nature.”

“Beauty Is Death” will appear in The Persistence of Beauty ed. Michael O'Neill and Sarah Wootton.

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