Abstract:This essay engages Nietzsche as a traveler who, by regularly sojourning in precariously inhabitable volcanic areas of Italy as he sought some relief for his health in propitious climes, pursued a philosophy of becoming. The firehound his Zarathustra encountered on an island reminiscent of Southern Italian landscapes that Nietzsche traveled to, famously declared that “the Earth has a skin, and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man”—a claim that Zarathustra scoffed at. And yet, the demonic animal’s claim provokes us today: as Gaia is running a fever, the question of (un)inhabitability is not just a question of space but also of time—of eternity and ephemerality posed so well by Nietzsche’s concept of eternal return. I suggest that a “Nietzschean ecology” would force us to fatefully dance with the radical reckoning that the only time we can inhabit is the moment, collapsing means and ends for a new eco-ethics.
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Abstract:Lascaux II was a partial three-dimensional replica of the original cave built on site, Lascaux III an international itinerant exhibit of movable panels reproducing the cave’s most famous scenes. Lascaux IV proposes a complete replica integrated within an interactive museum environment. The replication project continues: Chauvet II in 2015; Cosquer II in 2022. How these replicas were built is well documented (within the limits of trademarked secrecy). What is less clear and what this article sets out to examine, is the relation these replicas of Paleolithic sanctuaries sustain with the increasingly uninhabitable world in which they appear.
{"title":"Lascaux IV, Chauvet II, Planet B","authors":"V. Bruyère","doi":"10.1353/sub.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sub.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Lascaux II was a partial three-dimensional replica of the original cave built on site, Lascaux III an international itinerant exhibit of movable panels reproducing the cave’s most famous scenes. Lascaux IV proposes a complete replica integrated within an interactive museum environment. The replication project continues: Chauvet II in 2015; Cosquer II in 2022. How these replicas were built is well documented (within the limits of trademarked secrecy). What is less clear and what this article sets out to examine, is the relation these replicas of Paleolithic sanctuaries sustain with the increasingly uninhabitable world in which they appear.","PeriodicalId":45831,"journal":{"name":"SUB-STANCE","volume":"51 1","pages":"102 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47198582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay argues for a more methodologically diverse search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) and study of habitable exoplanets that might contribute to the emergent field of critical habitability studies across the sciences and humanities. Whether or not contact is made with extraterrestrials, this effort is implicated in changing concepts of otherness at home and the ongoing work to decolonize Earth and make it more inhabitable. I examine historical efforts to think aliens philosophically in the work of Kant, to conclude with a reflection on the trope of contact between humans, nonhuman animals, and aliens in Ted Chiang’s short story “The Great Silence.”
{"title":"Critique of Alien Reason: Toward a Critical Interplanetary Humanities","authors":"Joshua Schuster","doi":"10.1353/sub.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sub.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay argues for a more methodologically diverse search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) and study of habitable exoplanets that might contribute to the emergent field of critical habitability studies across the sciences and humanities. Whether or not contact is made with extraterrestrials, this effort is implicated in changing concepts of otherness at home and the ongoing work to decolonize Earth and make it more inhabitable. I examine historical efforts to think aliens philosophically in the work of Kant, to conclude with a reflection on the trope of contact between humans, nonhuman animals, and aliens in Ted Chiang’s short story “The Great Silence.”","PeriodicalId":45831,"journal":{"name":"SUB-STANCE","volume":"51 1","pages":"103 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46943366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article investigates Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh’s deployment of dioramas in The Burnt Theater (2005) and Graves Without a Name (2018). It focuses on the status of these miniature tableaux depicting landscapes of the Khmer Rouge regime as a ghost medium. A frame within the frame devoid of human forms, the diorama calls attention to the missing graves and wandering souls of Pol Pot’s agrarian revolution; the shared spaces of the living and the dead in present-day Cambodia; visual amnesia in the form of unmarked killing fields and forgotten landscapes; and new practices of reading the inhabited terrains of the Anthropocene.
{"title":"A Home for the Ghosts: On the Diorama as Inhabited Landscape","authors":"J. Cazenave","doi":"10.1353/sub.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sub.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article investigates Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh’s deployment of dioramas in The Burnt Theater (2005) and Graves Without a Name (2018). It focuses on the status of these miniature tableaux depicting landscapes of the Khmer Rouge regime as a ghost medium. A frame within the frame devoid of human forms, the diorama calls attention to the missing graves and wandering souls of Pol Pot’s agrarian revolution; the shared spaces of the living and the dead in present-day Cambodia; visual amnesia in the form of unmarked killing fields and forgotten landscapes; and new practices of reading the inhabited terrains of the Anthropocene.","PeriodicalId":45831,"journal":{"name":"SUB-STANCE","volume":"51 1","pages":"30 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47240352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In contemporary culture, viruses are taken either metaphorically, as signs of accelerated transmission of information, or pejoratively, as evil or “bad” objects laying waste to our lives. I contend that the opposition is moot. By way of Stephen Soderbergh’s prescient film, Contagion (2011), and the recent pandemic, I show how exploitation of resources (notably deforestation and uncontrolled expansion of agribusiness), disregards fragile environments in which humans, animal, plants, and inorganic matter are entangled—and in which viruses are vital to life itself. Viruses become “bad” where human expansion disturbs habitat and habitus. The depredations of COVID-19 tell us that we must urgently reset our physical and ethical compasses if we are to inhabit our many worlds with greater care.
{"title":"Inhabiting a Viral Culture","authors":"V. Conley","doi":"10.1353/sub.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sub.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In contemporary culture, viruses are taken either metaphorically, as signs of accelerated transmission of information, or pejoratively, as evil or “bad” objects laying waste to our lives. I contend that the opposition is moot. By way of Stephen Soderbergh’s prescient film, Contagion (2011), and the recent pandemic, I show how exploitation of resources (notably deforestation and uncontrolled expansion of agribusiness), disregards fragile environments in which humans, animal, plants, and inorganic matter are entangled—and in which viruses are vital to life itself. Viruses become “bad” where human expansion disturbs habitat and habitus. The depredations of COVID-19 tell us that we must urgently reset our physical and ethical compasses if we are to inhabit our many worlds with greater care.","PeriodicalId":45831,"journal":{"name":"SUB-STANCE","volume":"51 1","pages":"120 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45846082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay is a discussion of two works by contemporary French writer Olivier Rolin: Le Météorologue (2014) and Bakou, derniers jours (2010), both examples of empiritext, a contemporary genre of writing in France that melds historical considerations with travel narrative. Rolin’s works raise the question of the author’s habitation of (landscapes and histories via) his or her own text, specifically in the context of the demise of the Soviet socialist dream so formative for many French leftists of that generation. The empiritext, drifting through uninhabitable spaces of text and world, becomes for Rolin the means of a self-distancing from that utopia.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84834-7
{"title":"Substance and Non-Substance Related Addictions: A Global Approach","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-84834-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84834-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45831,"journal":{"name":"SUB-STANCE","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81738459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84834-7_13
Tiesha T. Gregory, Kate Y. O’Malley, Christopher Medina-Kirchner, M. G. Guàrdia, C. Hart
{"title":"Cannabinoids: The Case for Legal Regulation That Permits Recreational Adult Use","authors":"Tiesha T. Gregory, Kate Y. O’Malley, Christopher Medina-Kirchner, M. G. Guàrdia, C. Hart","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-84834-7_13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84834-7_13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45831,"journal":{"name":"SUB-STANCE","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82306305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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