An Interesting Essay by Matthew Cheney

The Rats in Our Walls: An Essay

Reterritorialization first requires deterritorialization — uprooting. To uproot, we must dig in the soil, the mud, the muck. (With Lovecraft and some of the associated topics here, there is plenty of muck.) But we’ve got to find the roots so we can see which ones are, despite rocks and rot, healthy and which need to be cut away.

This will be a journey.

Lovecraft, history of eugenics, Faulkner, links to other interesting articles (which my college doesn’t have a jstor subscription to, sob), and the discussion of a book with the great title of Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J. Haraway

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