
Contestatory and Creative Poetics for a Time of Climate Catastrophe
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The book thus focalises a politicised effort to revision the rampant multiscalar individualism, solipsism and apartheid-like segregation of our age. Instead, it searches for possibilities or community in every aspect of the world we have learnt to see through a relentlessly atomising and hypostatising filter. The volume claims that every act of perception is political, reestablishing obfuscated connections, thereby seeking to repair the shredded fabric of the ecosphere below the threshold of myopic common-sense. Yet it also celebrates the myriad acts of citizen defiance, visible and invisible, that constitute activist agendas around the world, sending signals - both practical and exemplary, symbolic and literary - that shore up communities of resistance everywhere. The book does not hesitate to interrogate the fractal responsiveness to its own nature, meditating repeatedly on the political character of writing, and more significantly, of the teaching of writing.
Central to its concerns are various avatars of trees, from the pirogue that hangs above a bar in Lille, and one that is crafted as part of an Italian artist's global collaboration on the periphery of this volume's emergence, via the jacarandas of post-apartheid South Africa, to a wood-chipped pine forest that has become a memorial library in Oslo - to name only a few of the topics taken up by the book's many silvan micro-fictions. Looming over all these concerns are two contemporary silvan catastrophes: the megablazes that destroyed forests in Amazonia, Australia, California, Siberia and the Mediterranean during the period when the book was being written and the deforestation that has allowed zoogenic diseases to jump from once secluded animal species to the humans that would never have been their neighbours if naturally occurring forest-barriers had been left intact.
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"Similar to Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus or Berlant and Stewart's The Hundreds, this book multiplies the ways to reanimate the vibrant web of life on Earth threatened, as it is, by malevolent destruction. Here are texts that philtre antidotes - powerful mixtures of philosophy and poetry restoring connections you had never imagined." -Stephen Muecke, University of Notre Dame, Australia."As humanity engages with end-time scenarios, a book that combines incandescent words and theoretical sophistica-tion to both provoke and assuage. Engaging with the quiddity of nature and arguing for the porosity of the human and animal, the authors pose both a new paradigm and a challenge to the disciplines in the age of the Anthropocene." -Dilip M. Menon, Professor of History and International Relations, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and editor Changing Theory: Concepts for the Global South (Routledge, 2022).
"In this unique antipodal collaboration, Kinsella and West-Pavlov engage in an exhilarating dialogue of forms-fictocriticism, poetry, microfictions-responding to the urgencies of climate crisis with brilliance and imagina-tive force." -Philip Mead, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
"Per Se is an extraordinary collaborative work that reflects in fascinating ways on its own making. In the variety and verve of its forms, registers and concerns, it embodies exactly the multiplicity and connectedness the writers celebrate in the world. Essential reading for our troubled times." -Ivan Vladislavic, Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
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Russell West-Pavlov is a professor of Anglophone Literature and co-convenor of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies at the University of Tuebingen, Germany. His recent book publications include Eastern African Literatures (2018), German as Contact Zone (2019), AfrikAffekt (2020) and, as editor, The Global South and Literature (2018).
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