And Before I Go

We're supposed to head out to hang out with family tomorrow. Yes, with a storm bearing down on us, but we hope 'tis just a wee storm. Oh, we fervently hope. So we're packing and cleaning tonight.

To keep yourself busy in the meantime, I have some links for you. Good, tofu-sausage links! For heart health!

You can look at this response to ecocriticism's tension with experimental poets. I start with two thoughts: 1) I don't know how or why you would want a less literal environmental ethics; 2) I am interested in the rhizome, particularly as deployed as a model for ecologically webbed niches, but I remain suspicious of Delueze and Guatarri as creators of the world--and these arguments--by fiat. This frustration with what feels like a religious appeal to authority when it comes to these theorists is what I find at the heart of ecocritical rejection of postmodernism/poststructuralism. I am sympathetic to a call to rethink our place in and engagement with the world. Might experimental poetics be that way? Mm. It's also curious that the experiments the author calls for (and he's not alone in this) are the experiments that matches his own engagements and interests. I'd like to think we need to cast a bit wider.

And out of the mouths of gamers: A pair of controversies, both linked by feminism. First, for the descriptivists among you, a consideration of the singular "they" (here). Second, for a sense that the culture is still not friendly to women, follow this link (or, you know, watch tv). You'll need to click around to follow the discussion, but it's fascinating. Particularly if you compare and contrast with the first controversy ("they"). And with that first thread, it is. . . instructive. . . to note the (implied) sexes the commentators.

I might be able to blog over the break, but maybe not. So it might get cobwebby around here, not that it isn't that way most of the time. Since I don't have students, expect a quiz when I get back. And it won't be a simply "naughty/nice" true/false one.

Happy Holidays!

Comments

[Kat]

on a tangent:

http://xkcd.com/322/

[Crafty green Poet]

have a wonderful holiday break!

[Kat]

Come home and post. Pretty please?