Category: book reviews
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Porkopolis and The Secret Life of Groceries
There’s this ascendent form of writing showing up everywhere from self-improvement books to books about how complicated things are: Start with a story of a person, could be a person from history, could be someone who came to your workshop, could be someone who stands in as the exemplar of a situation too big and…
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Water and Ocean
I was glad to have the chance to review Elspeth Probyn’s 2016 book, Eating the Ocean, alongside Astrida Neimanis’s 2017, Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. This review just came out in Cultural Studies Review, and I’m pasting the text below, too. I was born in Arapahoe and Ute territory, in the arid foothills of…
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“Nobody lives everywhere; everybody lives somewhere.”
I am tasked with writing a review of the book Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Not feeling able to actually do that, I have written this instead. This is because of course, it is impossible for me to write a review of anything Donna Haraway writes; it would be like a jellyfish…
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Grappling with the trouble & in the wake
In March, we took the ferry from Bellingham, Washington, to Haines, Alaska. Getting to Haines was the last link in a chain of intense, nourishing, lovely time with friends – a wonderful and a sad thing about this driving trip that we’ve been on from Ottawa looping around the continent is seeing the distribution of…
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The problem with loving whiteness
This was later published as part of a section in Philosophy Today on the book The problem with loving whiteness SPEP, October 2015, response to S. Sullivan’s Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism Shannon Sullivan’s work on racialization and habits, and on relationality and transaction, was important to my philosophical formation. It…