“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Thursday, January 30, 2014

At Rice Next Spring

I'm teaching a class called Ecology and Philosophy. I'm part of this Philosophy Cluster of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. We got this big grant and me teaching that class is part of the deal.

In the fall, I'm manning the decks for the gateway class. English 600.

I'm determined to get ecological criticism and theory in there.

Even Vincent Leitch's wafer-thin-cigarette-paper gajillion page Norton Anthology doesn't include that. Still. Good bloody God.

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