ENGL 6040: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts Keynote (SP22)
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footprints <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <br />
the dead<br />
“<br />
E n t a n g l e m e n t s a r e t h e o n t o l o g i c a l<br />
inseparability <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> intra-acting agencies.<br />
Naturalcultural phenomena are entanglements, the<br />
sedimented effects <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> a dynamics <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> iterative intraactivity,<br />
where intra-acti<strong>on</strong>s (c<strong>on</strong>tra interacti<strong>on</strong>s<br />
do not assume separability, but rather) cut<br />
together-apart, differentiate-entangle. Phenomena<br />
are specific material relati<strong>on</strong>s <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> the <strong>on</strong>going<br />
differentiating <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> the world, where “material”<br />
needs to be understood as iteratively c<strong>on</strong>stituted<br />
through force relati<strong>on</strong>s. Phenomena are not located<br />
in space and time; rather, phenomena are<br />
material entanglements enfolded and threaded<br />
through the spacetimemattering <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> the universe.<br />
Entanglements are the iterative intra-active<br />
(re)c<strong>on</strong>fi g u r i n g s a n d e n f o l d i n g s o f<br />
spacetimemattering (Barad G111).<br />
(post)
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