ECLS Research seminar
We run a series of seminars intended to provide a forum for discussion of literary research projects underway both within and outside of the department. The programme timetable and schedule changes annually.
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
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Research Seminarvia Zoom - Link to follow"Drill and Drift: The Poetics of Metabolic Rift"with Margaret Ronda (UC Davis) This talk considers the ways in which the temporalities of the nonhuman environment and the temporal forms of capitalism find expression in a series of poetic works by contemporary North American poets. Approaching works by Hoa Nguyen, Rita Wong, Cecily Nicholson, and dg nanouk okpik, I argue that these writings illuminate the socioecological contradictions of capitalist production as they emerge in the durations and intensifications of historical and everyday time. In their immanent formal attention to the differential motions of socioecological time, these works illuminate capitalism鈥檚 ever-more-intensive imbrications in biospheric processes and embodied forms: what Marx called metabolic rift, unfolding at various scales and speeds. |