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Meeting I
Materiality Bodily experience through texts Latin hexameter poetry Epic - Lucan Didactic Written Network Homer - access to secrets of the universe Cognitive classics/humanities/eco-criticism Extended mind theory – Andy Clarke Fouré – language metaphors, predicated Cognition – not brain bound – body too Offload cognition Fleshy…embedded…emotional and physical Affects you and creates the way you think Eclogs – theogony – works and days (Hesiod) Spreading beech – tree – weather – sciences Lucretius – On the nature of things OOOlogy Object orientated ontology Superhuman poetry added authority Dislocation – materialism – agency of systems and objects Materialist universe – soul material – dust motes Virgil in Arcadia – refugees o-o-o – object oriented environs – JJ Cohen Georgics: agricultural manual - earthly things – what nature is? Warfare – terra nullius Is labour a great thing? Terrible labour pervades everything - Orfeo and Eurydice Inhuman Nature – JJ Cohen again Grounding Knowledge – Christopher J Preston Material Ecocriticism – Serenella Iovino Systems: what is offering further agency of materials? Affective repercussions of material ecocriticism Works and days Taming of nature – vines – troops End of farmer Vigil – Georgics – Peter Fallan Longinus - Russell.D – Sublime Meeting II With Mary Quicke 21.2.18 Objects effecting/affecting our understanding of the environment Philosophy – environmental ethics How it frames your understanding how your perspective activates the text (Georgics) 18th Century influence on how we farm Loop between how we read and how we engage Civil war – transience Memory attached to landscape Memory housed in people but also in objects and environment Farming museum – plough – objects forming landscape Repeal of the corn laws – agricultural revolution… industrial revolution Baltic ports -s erfs 1/3 of the price Introduced reliance on other countries Climate change – implements in soil Soil cultures – tasting soil (Alfonso Borragan) Microbial – outside of the cheeses – cloths/skins Unseen world – different flavours of milk Rumen – fermenting Cheese starters – microbes – library of starters - stolen Rind – microflora of place – specificity of place Being of a place can be empowering Farm support from EU – notion of farming FOR maintaining food production Post-war – food security Always buy from elsewhere – opposite of roman model Public money – producing public goods: might be the environment/landscape/leisure/food supply/food security/quality Food standards agency – no more raw milk? 1960s environmentalists versus farmers – reducing liberty? Environmental goods – fallow/ crops supporting biodiversity Timing of cropping spring/autumn Nature – natura – intangible 1000 versions of nature Expectations of landscapes THIS LAND – soil grass and stories of Land/community wider than Quicke’s Cognitive framework – body/brain/world Environment as responsible for memory Mass urbanisation – changes objects that you can interact with Attuned to landscape Ideal roman was a farmersolidier King Conatus – consul Landowner-politics J.Hector St John Crevecoeur – letters from an American farmer (library 973.3 DEC) re-working of the Georgics – violent Notes pre-meeting III Soil- culture/nature – Natureculture Haraway Fertiliser – blood and soil “culturing’ chemical manipulation of soil – Jussi Parikka “Hardware does not die – stashed away and retains its toxic materiality” Anti-nostalgia – Braidotti Haunting – Absence Temporality Import – agricultural revolution Pastoral/romantic Mapping scales – google earth/ordinance survey/ soil samples – electron microscopy Cheese linens Quarries? Radical localism dating sublime anthropocene – agriculture/agricultural revolution/industrial revolution/nuclear Meeting III 9.3.18 Shelley’s version of the Georgics – underworld lacking gods Agricultural revolution – Jethro Tull Not farming like Virgil but more like the Europoeans Matthew Arnold – Empire focus of the 18th Century Gentleman farmer Selective breeding Lucretius – micro/macro (always bring Lucretius) Peter Fallan Georgics – Book 2 226 Edgelands – verges Hesiod - Works and Days Hesiod – topography of time/topographies Seed – burying seeds Alex Purves – Mary Quicke talking about Braley – swet Ingesting materially connected Virgil Series of Soil Break ground with heavy oxen Tasting soil Colours of soil Crumbly soil – laying out the land Those whose eyes watch everything miss nothing Vineyards – legions lined up Civil War Mars doesn’t know which way to turn (because it’s a civil war) Farmer soldiers Lacuna – absence in text – unstable text Tartara - Underworld Radice in tartara tendit – roots reaching down to the underworld Paratextuality - Edgelands Genealogy of texts – from lots of notes to none Civil wars – Newton St Cyre’s naming sites Pepe Romanilios – Geo-philosophy Geography of absence Agricultural revolution caused the industrial revolution Virgil – the Poet Laureate of the Anthropocene – Dan Richter Daniel Richter – Duke University – American Agronomy
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