what i write:

It is hard to say, as my voice as an academic writer is emerging, untested, often flailing. I find myself at the crossroads of different disciplines - political theory and literary ecocriticism - sometimes not knowing which way to go. Wearing two hats (theorist and critic) is hard. So is being a human writer disillusioned with logocentricity and drawn instead to the weirdly wonderful ways in which beings from the rest of the living world make their wishes known.

why i write:

Writing is the hardest thing in the world and it is never finished. The process: torture. The product: sincerely conceived, but always and invariably a serious blunder to somebody. Why do it, why indeed? For me, grudgingly, writing is the task I equate with the more fundamental task of living authentically through social and ecological crisis. Or, to borrow a phrase from Donna Haraway, writing is inseparable from the task of Staying With the Trouble.

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