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ENGL 6040: VanderMeer Keynote (SP22)

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“The desert foxes, snapping their jaws and joyous,<br />

ate up what was left of Moss. They gamboled and<br />

leapt across the mist and meadow of her corpse<br />

and devoured her bit by bit (<strong>VanderMeer</strong> 108).<br />

joys<br />

Loss of bounded self is only truly horrifying within<br />

an anthropocentric framework that prizes human<br />

being in its current state over all other forms and<br />

ways of being. Active self-annihilation might,<br />

paradoxically, offer a path toward ecosystemic {preservation (Wilk 13).<br />

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