| ...In The Lives of a Cell , Lewis Thomas writes that the fact that because of our particular evolution from the symbiotic linkages between prokaryotic cells, plus our continuing symbiosis with hosts of internal and external micro-organisms, clear marks of identity that distinguish self from non-self have long been blurred. *[1]... [2]... [3]... [4]... [5]... |
...In his book This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry , Jed Rasula proposes the tropological category as an alternative to what Auden describes as the topological. “This we see in the current proliferation of exercises in analogy, casting poems as somehow functioning like ecosystems or complex systems, troping on language and ideas from the environmental sciences. Gary Snyder's famous description of the poet as detritus feeder is the best-known example….”--Jonathan Skinner, from Cahiers de Corey *[6]... [7]... [8]... [9]... [10]... [11]... [12]... [13]... [14]... |
...."Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses." -- Wittgenstein, from Philosophical Investigations *[15]... [16]... [17]... [18]... [19]... [20]... |
...“The concept of soil as an open system that plays a key role in the development and functioning of particular ecosystems and the biosphere as a whole has led to attempts to consider the soil microbial diversity at the biogeocenoitc level….For example, the intestinal bacterial community of soil invertebrates is a transit community that passes through the intestines together with food. The taxonomic composition of this community is not constant and is determined by the food consumption.”--Dmitri Zvyagintsev *[21]... [22]... [23]... [24]... |
...In his essay “Walking,” Thoreau defines “the art of walking” as a form of “sauntering,” a word that derives from sans terre -- without land or home. “Sawnterells” were 15 th century mystics and wandering holy men. The Middle English form of “saunter” is santren, which means “to muse.” *[25]... [26]... [27]... [28]... [29]... [30]... [31]... |
...“Post-avant, after all, is precisely what happens to avant-garde writing the instant that it gets it that the old master narrative of progress is bunk & that the role of the avant-garde has naught to do with the military metaphor implicit in that term, but with a literary tradition that stretches back at least as far as Wordsworth & Coleridge & Blake, & that this tradition is understood best as a diachronic view of an ever evolving world literary community .” -- Ron Silliman *[32]... [33]... [34]... [35]... |