The reckoning of climate change calls for us to fundamentally rethink our notions of human centrality, superiority and power. Drawing on a wide range of modern writers and thinkers - from Freud and Darwin to Latour and Derrida, from Shakespeare and Carroll to Woolf and Kafka - R…
The reckoning of climate change calls for us to fundamentally rethink our notions of human centrality, superiority and power. Drawing on a wide range of modern writers and thinkers - from Freud and Darwin to Latour and Derrida, from Shakespeare and Carroll to Woolf and Kafka - R…
The reckoning of climate change calls for us to fundamentally rethink our notions of human centrality, superiority and power. Drawing on a wide range of modern writers and thinkers - from Freud and Darwin to Latour and Derrida, from Shakespeare and Carroll to Woolf and Kafka - R…
« This book offers a decoder for some of the new forms of poetry enabled by digital technology. Examining many of the strange technological vectors converging on language, it proposes a poetics appropriate to the digital era while connecting digital poetry to traditional poetry'…
by Geertz, Clifford, Geertz, Clifford
fromPhoenix books (Chicago, Ill.)
How have human cultures engaged with and thought about animals, plants, rocks, clouds, and other elements of their natural surroundings? Do animals and other natural objects have a spirit or soul? What is their relationship to humans? In his new book, Graham Harvey explores indi…
At one time, God was a bird. In ancient Egypt, Thoth was the Ibis-headed divinity of magic & wisdom. Winged divine beings populated the pantheon of Greek antiquity, & Quetzalcoatl was the plumed serpent deity of the pre-Columbian Aztecs. It is said that in spite of, or better, t…
Mark Wallace's recovery of the bird-God of the Bible signals a deep grounding of faith in the natural world. The moral implications of nature-based Christianity are profound. All life is deserving of humans' care and protection insofar as the world is envisioned as alive with sa…
At one time, God was a bird. In ancient Egypt, Thoth was the Ibis-headed divinity of magic & wisdom. Winged divine beings populated the pantheon of Greek antiquity, & Quetzalcoatl was the plumed serpent deity of the pre-Columbian Aztecs. It is said that in spite of, or better, t…
