Literature and the Environment, Fall 2008
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What is ecology? What is nature? What is ecological literature? In this class Timothy Morton, professor of English and nature and culture, investigates these profound and very urgent questions. In Morton’s recent book Ecology without Nature, he argues that environmental art needs rethinking on a deep and massive scale. Literary studies needs to acknowledge the extent to which every work of art is environmental, in the same way as every work of art is about gender, race, and class. This means that even texts that are not explicitly “about” the environment (animals, trees, mountains … etc.) have what Morton calls “environmentality.” Thus there are some texts that are environmental in form as well as in content. This class will challenge you to develop reading skills and philosophical depth to investigate one of the most important areas of literature and culture today.
Location:
United States
Description:
What is ecology? What is nature? What is ecological literature? In this class Timothy Morton, professor of English and nature and culture, investigates these profound and very urgent questions. In Morton’s recent book Ecology without Nature, he argues that environmental art needs rethinking on a deep and massive scale. Literary studies needs to acknowledge the extent to which every work of art is environmental, in the same way as every work of art is about gender, race, and class. This means that even texts that are not explicitly “about” the environment (animals, trees, mountains … etc.) have what Morton calls “environmentality.” Thus there are some texts that are environmental in form as well as in content. This class will challenge you to develop reading skills and philosophical depth to investigate one of the most important areas of literature and culture today.
Language:
English
Website:
http://itunes.ucdavis.edu/
Uncanny Ecology
Duration:01:01:34
Gödel, Ecology, Being
Duration:00:42:15
Darwin on Expression: Matter and Information Entangled
Duration:00:40:32
Levinas and Ecological Coexistence
Duration:01:01:11
Lynn Margulis, Symbiosis, Ethics
Duration:00:55:24
Darwin's Descent of Man and the Aesthetic
Duration:00:46:38
Strange Strangers: A Derridean Approach to Life Forms
Duration:00:46:22
Darwin's Origin of Species and Interconnectedness
Duration:01:10:56
Cantor Sets, Fractals and Algorithms—and Nature
Duration:00:41:34
What is the Ecological Thought?
Duration:00:48:45
Dark Ecology
Duration:00:11:29
Future Environmental Art 2
Duration:01:08:46
Future Environmental Art 1
Duration:00:57:13
Negative Ecology
Duration:01:00:25
Holism and Intimacy
Duration:00:41:32
Beautiful Soul Syndrome
Duration:01:05:16
Consumerism
Duration:01:12:04
History of Environmental Form 2
Duration:00:50:01
Creativity in the Face of Climate Change
Duration:00:15:26
History of Environmental Form 1
Duration:00:59:03