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By Glenn Solvang, 7 November, 2017

Joseph McElroy's Cyborg Plus

Author
Salvatore Proietti
Publication Type
Article in an online journal
Language
English
Year
Publisher
Electronic Book Review (ebr)
URL
Joseph McElroy's Cyborg Plus
Appears in
Critical Ecologies
Record Status
Not yet reviewed
Tags
Salvatore Proietti
Proietti
Joseph McElroy
mcelroy
haraway
hayles
levi
Bakhtin
toffler
Chomsky
tabbi
wilson
american
contemporary
fiction
narrative
McLuhan
barth
Calvino
science fiction
cyborg
Ballard
clarke
Hjortsberg
vonnegut
Abstract (in English)

Salvatore Proietti straddles science and fiction to offer an interpretation of a McElroy Cyborg.

By Malene Fonnes, 16 October, 2017

Gaia Matters

Author
Bruce Clarke
Publication Type
Article in an online journal
Language
English
Year
Publisher
Electronic Book Review (ebr)
Series
Critical Ecologies
URL
Gaia Matters
Appears in
Critical Ecologies
License
CC Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
Record Status
Not yet reviewed
Tags
clarke
Harding
Gaia
Margulis
Lovelock
ecology
global
Gore
climate
critical ecology
Abstract (in English)

Bruce Clarke reviews Stephan Harding’s Animate Earth and James Lovelock’s recent book on Gaia, the mother of all systems.

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

Pull Quotes

Systems theory often seems counter-intuitive. The problem is not with the behavior of systems, but with the conceptually antiquated nature of our intuitions. For instance, typically, “negative” stands to “positive” as deleterious stands to desirable.

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