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this wind is from the north then jip went up to the front of the ship and smelt the wind and he started muttering to himself tar spanish onions kerosene oil wet raincoats crushed laurel leaves rubber burning lace curtains being washed no my mistake lace curtains hanging out to dry and foxes hundreds of em cubs and can you really smell all those different things in this one wind asked the doctor why of course said jip and those are only a few of the easy smells the strong ones any mongrel could smell those with a cold in the head wait now and i ll tell you some of the harder scents that are coming on this wind a few of the dainty ones then the dog shut his eyes tight poked his nose straight up in the air and sniffed hard with his mouth half open for a long time he said nothing he kept as still as a stone he hardly seemed to be breathing at all when at last he began to speak it sounded almost as though he were singing sadly in a dream bricks he whispered very low old yellow bricks crumbling with age in a garden wall the sweet breath of young cows standing in a mountain stream the lead roof of a dove cote or perhaps a granary with the mid day sun on it black kid gloves lying in a bureau drawer of walnut wood a dusty road with a horses drinking trough beneath the sycamores little mushrooms bursting through the rotting leaves and and and and and and filed under uncategorized leave a comment tags doctor doolittle poetry reading year of the dog square life 4 27sep17 all photos taken with an asus zenfone 3 using instagram filters filed under daily life japan kansai osaka photography leave a comment tags asus zenfone 3 everyday life instagram filter square 日常生活 日常生活の写真 square life 3 19aug17 all photos taken with an asus zenfone 3 using instagram filters filed under daily life japan kansai osaka photography leave a comment tags asus zenfone 3 at war with the obvious daily life everyday life instagram filter square 日常生活 日常生活の写真 typhoon noru the hyperobject comes down 08aug17 i m currently in the middle of typhoon noru which has been steadily dropping large amounts of rain over osaka all day long it s a slow moving typhoon one that a friend of mine described as drunken so despite the downpour there aren t any heavy winds to rattle the windows in fact in addition to producing some glorious pre typhoon cloudscapes it s provided a bit of break from osaka s oppressive summer heat and a good excuse to spend the day indoors despite the unhurried pleasantness of this particular typhoon as i m experiencing it in osaka it has been anything but pleasant for rain soaked kyushu already hit hard this year by record downpours similarly hundreds of thousands had to be evacuated in the tohoku region during record downpours earlier this year these downpours are the antipodal counterparts of the record heat waves in europe and the continuing droughts and forest fires that are devastating california so while i m delighted by the mild demeanor of this typhoon as it passes through osaka i can t also but help to read it in the context of larger trends of global climate destabilization the atmosphere here is connected to the atmosphere there in a swirl of dynamic causation that is producing climate conditions that in all of human history have never been seen before one question that has come up quite a lot recently is the question of how climate destabilization and the genuine potential of climate catastrophe should be represented in her essay a defense of climate tragedy or what the scientists got wrong about the uninhabitable earth genevieve guenther argues that literary representation can play a major role in producing the types of emotional urgency that are the necessary prerequisites for the social and political action that is needed to prevent the worst case scenarios featured in david wallace wells s essay the uninhabitable earth from becoming reality as guenther points out in her well reasoned response to the objections that some climate scientists have to what they see as the dangerous exaggerations of wallace wells s writing imaginative writing serves a different and vitally important function than science reporting i agree strongly with guenther that it is vitally important at this stage to instigate changes in how we understand climate disruption so that this understanding becomes part of our core cultural and emotional awareness of the world not simply a series of rationally apprehended empirical facts that are then somehow bundled to the side so that we can go about our daily lives as if one of the most significantly important shifts in the natural history of the biosphere isn t already happening now all around us timothy morton has argued in hyperobjects that global warming is a special kind of conceptual object that is so expansive that it defies our apprehension stephen muecke s review in the los angeles review of books gives a good introductory account of morton s ideas it is the very unknowability of global warming as an empirically graspable thing that keeps us from engaging with it with the urgency that is necessary i think this is partially true but that this inability to grasp the totality of the hyperobject isn t an epistemological inevitability but rather is a product of ways of reading and thinking that have been inherited from a social economic formation that actively discourages taking into account total systems of relations including relationships that play out at the level of the ecosystem as amitav ghosh asks where is the fiction about climate change as it turns out the forms of realist fiction that make up the legacy of the contemporary novel don t necessarily lend themselves to discussions of climate catastrophe which somehow feel unreal and unconvincing within the limited scope of what is allowed to figure as reality in these novels science fiction on the other hand offers enormous scope for discussions of climate catastrophe unfortunately however science fiction is all too quickly dismissed as being too unrealistic but there are plenty of authors who do in fact begin to approach the kind of representations of total systems in literature that might give us some hope of being able to grasp the totality of hyperobjects on both the scientific rational level and on a deeper level of conceptualization as well jorie graham s incredibly vital beautiful and elegiac poems in sea change confront what it means to be conscious of the catastrophe befalling the natural world and attempt to open us up to the wonder of creation even as vanishes before our eyes as graham states in an interview with deidre wengen the overwhelming sensation that rises before me each day sometimes i feel i am living an extended farewell where my eventual disappearance my mortal nature normally a deep human concern has been washed away by my fear for the deeper mortality the extinction of other species and of the natural world itself i cannot look at the world hard enough in ezra pound s proposition a short poem by robert hass published in the american poetry review he shows the immediacy of connections between the world bank international finance capital ecological destruction and the cultural and social displacement that is a result of the construction of dams the neon light of prostitution is no longer a de historicized local phenomenon in this figuration but instead a visceral and quite literally concrete manifestation of the abstract workings of global finance capital in moby dick which i m currently rereading in preparation for a graduate level summer intensive course that i ll be teaching melville makes a similar move when he ties the brutality inherent in the production of whale oil to the act of reading itself though most men have some vague flitting ideas of the general perils of the grand fishery yet they have nothing like a fixed vivid conception of those perils and the frequency with which they recur one reason perhaps is that not one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery ever finds a public record at home however transient and immediately forgotten that record do you suppose that that poor fellow there who this moment perhaps caught by the whale line off the coast of new guinea is being carried down to the bottom of the sea by the sounding leviathan do you suppose that that poor fellow s name will appear in the newspaper obituary you will read to morrow at your breakfast no because the mails are very irregular between here and new guinea in fact did you ever hear what might be called regular news direct or indirect from new guinea yet i will tell you that upon one particular voyage which i made to the pacific among many others we spoke thirty different ships every one of which had had a death by a whale some of them more than one and three that had each lost a boat s crew for god s sake be economical with your lamps and candles not a gallon you burn but at least one drop of man s blood was spilled for it melville begins this passage by pointing out to the reader that in general knowledge regarding whaling is in short supply unlike whale oil which was an incredibly common commodity in the 19th century whale oil was particular favored for use in reading lamps and for a good portion of the 19th century was very literally the stuff of enlightenment the knowledge of whaling that is brought to the reader of moby dick doesn t consist merely of a couple of stories about new guinea but rather emerges from the whole of the novel itself which provides a comprehensive account of the whaling industry down to the last fluke once this knowledge has been absorbed by the reader the reader becomes a self aware node positioned within a network of industrial production that generates enormous levels of violence in the production of the very spermaceti oil that keeps the lamp fires bright what the reader does with this knowledge is a question for another time but what we do with the knowledge of how we function as nodes within a larger system of industrial consumer production is certainly the question for our times one that will be being asked and answered with an increasing sense of urgency full disclosure department i ve been a friend of genevieve s since graduate school and i am totally and completely biased in her favor filed under books culture japan kansai literature nature osaka philosophy poetics poetry science society 1 comment tags a defense of climate tragedy amitav ghosh climate catastrophe climate fiction climate science dam construction david wallace wells deidre wengen extreme weather ezra pound s proposition genevieve guenther global climate change global finance capital hyperobjects jorie graham literary realism melville moby dick questions for our times robert hass sea change the uninhabitable earth timothy morton typhoon typhoon noru whale oil whaling textural 10 27jul17 all photographs taken with an asus zenfone 3 filed under daily life japan kansai osaka photography leave a comment tags asus zenfone 3 at war with the obvious everyday life vernacular photography 日常生活 日常生活の写真 textural 9 24jul17 all photographs taken with an asus zenfone 3 filed under daily life japan kansai osaka photography leave a comment tags asus zenfone 3 at war with the obvious daily life everyday life 日常生活 日常生活の写真 in which i have become that proverbial chicken 23jul17 there s no doubt that i m in the middle of one of the busiest phases of my life right now i m not only teaching my full load of classes and an extra creative writing class at another university on top of that but i m also smack in the middle of a job search while also preparing for a week long summer intensive course on moby dick which i ll be teaching in late august i have become the proverbial chicken with its head cut off a condition perhaps best visualized by the faceless fried chicken cutlet featured above the anthropomorphized cutlet whose name is famichiki senpai ファミチキ先輩 perfectly represents not only the headless chicken ness of the proverb but adds to it by adding a dash of deep frying perhaps taken from that old saw about out of the frying pan and into the fire though i suppose that in this case into the fryer might be a more appropriate phrase filed under japan personal sweet story of trout monroe leave a comment tags ファミチキ先輩 cardboard cutout chicken with its head cut off deep fried famichiki senpai out of the frying pan into the fryer too busy for words older posts search troutfactory my books at small press distribution my goodreads profile troutfactory at flickr recent entries the year of the earth dog square life 4 square life 3 typhoon noru the hyperobject comes down textural 10 textural 9 in which i have become that proverbial chicken cha the boo boo muck rainy season blues lightning storm prison planet categories academia 4 animation 19 architecture 62 art 115 bar 25 books 8 cabinet of wonders 8 cinema 23 comics 13 culture 330 daily life 160 design 54 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