After Wednesday's Class

After Wednesday's Class: On Ice and Melting Time

As usual, we didn't get to all of the material I had hoped to discuss this past week. I hope you'll all look again at the readings and...

Mar 19, 20212 min read

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Once again I want to add a few comments and quotations that bear on our class. We didn’t get a chance to discuss what paying taxes means...

Mar 8, 20213 min read

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In our discussion of deep time I didn’t get a chance to introduce two quotations. The first one is from Robert Macfarlane’s Underland and...

Mar 8, 20213 min read

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“I build my language with rocks,” Edouard Glissant What does it mean to build one’s language with rocks? I don’t have an answer for that...

Nov 12, 20202 min read

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As I noted today, I'll also use this blog space to site references relevant to our class. I'll post these references following class on...

Nov 4, 20202 min read

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This is the quotation from Gillen D’Arcy Wood’s Tambora: The Eruption that Changed the World that I didn’t have a chance to read last...

Oct 28, 20202 min read

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