Attention in the Anthropocene: On the Spiritual Exercises of Any Future Science

Kotva, Simone

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“…Hence, granting dignity to things cannot simply mean respectfully shutting the door to what in their presence calls for affinity and relation but, paradoxically, to enrich the idea of language and matter as a poetic process discussed above with a sense of the inviolable dignity of 'substance' or thinghood. This is why, despite its strange nihilism, there is also perhaps something of a theological import in Morton's suggestions (Kotva 2018). For in making the nonhuman object 'strange strangers', is there not perhaps also an appeal to a renewed mode of listening or attending, a manner of being with and alongside things that the modern notion of 'nature' and the cosmology from which it stems have obscured?…”

Section: 'Nature' Language and The Metaphysics Of The Nonhumanmentioning

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Recovering World-Welcoming Words: Language, Metaphysics, and the Voice of Nature

Gerlier¹

2021

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This article presents a theological–literary response to a concern in contemporary theory with heeding and articulating the speech of nonhuman things. Drawing from Rowan Williams’ metaphysics of poetic addition, I argue that an ‘ecotheological’ literary practice challenges us to become attentive and responsive to the language of the nonhuman, by creatively performing the co-mingling of nonhuman and human language. Drawing from Jean-Louis Chrétien’s phenomenology of the voice, I propose a theological conception of language as a gift of hospitality to the voice of nonhuman things that is also a gift of poetic addition—a ‘saying more’ which, adding being to the world, also manifests its gift-like nature. In contrast to recent critical approaches, I argue for the qualified retrieval of ‘nature’ as a figure both literary and theological, a voice that gives voice to things and speaks by means of human literary production. Through a reading of Shakespeare’s King Lear, I show that the paradoxical and poetic ambiguities of the literary sense of ‘nature’ serve precisely to shed light on its suspect modern iteration, while at the same time taking us beyond critique to enable a cautious yet attentive retrieval of its poetic and symbolic scope.

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Section: 'Nature' Language and The Metaphysics Of The Nonhumanmentioning

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Recovering World-Welcoming Words: Language, Metaphysics, and the Voice of Nature

Gerlier¹

2021

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Geopoetics

Bobbette

2023

Environmental Humanities

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This article presents an alternative political history of recent planetary thought through an examination of geopoetics rooted in the colonial politics of Indonesia and Cold War geosciences. This history reveals how geopoetics has not been marginal or critical of dominant scientific narratives but has been central to the development of modern theories of the earth. The article traces the roots of that history in colonial Indonesia through debates between geologists, Theosophists, and orientalists, and in colonial endeavors to suppress Javanese Islam through new geological narratives. It considers the work of Johannes Umbgrove, his theory of geopoetry, and its influence on Harry Hess and the theory of plate tectonics. Acknowledging this history shows us just how deeply connected geopoetics is to much longer religious, cosmological, and political conversations about narrating the earth. The article examines how geopoetics has long been preoccupied with understanding the connectivity of nature and catastrophic histories and points to contemporary possibilities for rethinking the relationship between humans, the earth, and cosmos.

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12. ‘The mystery from the world.’ Økologisk fellesskap i Björks Biophilia

Rustad¹

2023

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Attention in the Anthropocene: On the Spiritual Exercises of Any Future Science

Cited by 3 publications

References 14 publications

Recovering World-Welcoming Words: Language, Metaphysics, and the Voice of Nature

Recovering World-Welcoming Words: Language, Metaphysics, and the Voice of Nature

Geopoetics

12. ‘The mystery from the world.’ Økologisk fellesskap i Björks Biophilia

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