Mar 19, 20212 minAfter Wednesday's Class: On Ice and Melting TimeAs usual, we didn't get to all of the material I had hoped to discuss this past week. I hope you'll all look again at the readings and...
Mar 8, 20213 minAfter Wednesday’s Class: On Maples, Nation, and CitizenshipOnce again I want to add a few comments and quotations that bear on our class. We didn’t get a chance to discuss what paying taxes means...
Mar 8, 20213 minAfter Wednesday’s Class: Deep-time In our discussion of deep time I didn’t get a chance to introduce two quotations. The first one is from Robert Macfarlane’s Underland and...
Nov 12, 20202 minAfter Wednesday's Class: Poems, Words, Rocks“I build my language with rocks,” Edouard Glissant What does it mean to build one’s language with rocks? I don’t have an answer for that...