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Reviewing Andrew McMurry’s Environmental Renaissance, Stephen Dougherty questions the systems approach to ecocriticism.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/connected)

Andrew McMurry introduces Katherine Acheson’s review of Radiant Textuality, declaring that Acheson’s illuminated critique exemplifies what’s missing in McGann: the use of design not just to illustrate prose but also to extend a textual engagement.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/rhetorical

Katherine Acheson’s free-standing hypertext demonstrates how design can reinforce what’s said, offer a counterpoint, and, occasionally, convey a critique of the critic.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/illuminated) 

In his review of Lee Rozelle’s Ecosublime, Andrew McMurry offers a contrasting understanding of the sublime as a term describing our closure to nature, not our openness.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/contingent)

Rob Swigart asks why we keep hearing about a technological fix (dubious) and rarely about adaptation as a viable response to global warming.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/denial)

Andrew McMurry looks back on ten years of ecocriticism and identifiesa “new physiocracy,” whose exclusive interest in technology is no better than the exclusive valuation of property that typified physiocrats of the Nineteenth-Century.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/ecocritical)

Ken Hirschkop questions whether poststructuralism andself-referentiality offer workable alternatives to the military ‘WorldTarget’ that, according to Rey Chow, provides the framework forknowledge production in Departments of Comparative Literary Studies.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/transitive)

One of a series of eco-critical reviews, Stephen Dougherty exploresthe new ways that “matter is made to matter” in Ira Livingston’swriting on science and literature. The payoff of an ecocriticismgrounded in the materiality of language itself, can bee seen by thestrong political positioning toward the end of Dougherty’s essay.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/fractal)

Paola Cavalieri challenges the notion of the book "Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved" by Frans de Waal, that human superior ethical worth can be preserved.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/evolving)

Jon Adams rifles through the instrument cabinet of the man upstairs by way of William J. Jackson’s Heaven’s Fractal Net. Adams finds more problems than solutions in Jackson’s position that fractals are a fundamental and universal structure of life - a position Jackson stakes out by vacillating between scholarly proof and speculative guruism.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/thaumotropic)