Cooke
Biographic Data
| ID | 40889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cooke |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooke |
| SIGNATURE | COOKE |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1688-642X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1914 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gordon Bennett, 'Selected Writings', edited by Angela Goddard and Tim Riley Walsh
Gordon Bennett, Selected Writings, edited by Angela Goddard and Tim Riley Walsh Brisbane: Power Publications and Griffith University Art Museum, 2020, 216 pp., A$45, ISBN 9 7809 0995 2013
Poems
Collapse carries the weight of catastrophe. But what will collapse, and for whom will it be catastrophic? With the decline of the human, other species might get the opportunity to reconfigure things—but rather than some kind of misanthropic dream, the possibilities of these emergent relations are a source of inspiration and hope. If there is a way to erode the sanctity of the human subject without plunging head-first into fantasies of annihilatio…
Talking (With) Trees
Drawing on recent developments in critical plant studies, this essay attempts to develop an ethological poetics of trees. I start by analysing four examples of recent fiction, poetry and non-fiction that are each about different kinds of trees – The Overstory by Richard Powers; Translations from Bark Beetle by Jody Gladding; Tree Talks by Wendy Burk; The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage – with relation to JC Ryan’s phytocritical model. In …
The Ecological Poetics of Deborah Bird Rose
In the essay that follows I outline and then respond to the poetic qualities of Deborah Bird Rose’s thinking. Trained as an anthropologist, Rose was a highly original scholar. She pioneered ecological ethnography by focusing on the links between social and ecological justice, in particular with the Yarralin and Lingarra communities in the Northern Territory, and she is a founding figure in the environmental humanities, multispecies studies and ex…
Writing Toward and With
In this essay, the author argues that the appreciation of nonhuman poetic forms, or an “ethological poetics,” is a necessary but neglected mode of ecological relation, and is especially important in the Anthropocene. Motivated by his own creative practice—in particular, the composition of Lyre, a book of poems about different animals, plants, and landforms—he considers important examples of ethologically attentive poetics before outlining how his…
Toward an Ethological Poetics
In an attempt to respond to the West’s general obliviousness to nonhuman semiosis, this article proposes a method for appreciating nonhuman poetics. By combining the critical tools of poetics and literary theory with insights from ethology and biosemiotics, Stuart Cooke outlines a method of criticism for nonhuman creative compositions. Drawing on the work of Gerald Bruns, Elizabeth Grosz, and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Cooke begins by the…
Indigenous Poetics and Transcultural Ecologies
This article outlines a transcultural fluctuation between indigenous poetics from Australia and South America in order to respond to some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary ecocritical discourse. I propose that we might turn to indigenous knowledge systems not as part of a reactionary, antimodern form of Romanticism, but as an alternative, syncretic understanding of the contemporary, in which the past is partner to the present in the f…
Speaking the Earth’s Languages
Speaking the Earth's Languages brings together for the first time critical discussions of postcolonial poetics from Australia and Chile. The book crosses multiple languages, landscapes, and disciplines, and draws on a wide range of both oral and written poetries, in order to make strong claims about the importance of 'a nomad poetics' – not only for understanding Aboriginal or Mapuche writing practices but, more widely, for the problems confronti…
What’s an Ecologically Sensitive Poetics? Song, Breath and Ecology in Southern Chile
This essay explores the ecologically sensitive properties of oral poetics, or of written poetries with a close relationship to oral traditions. Looking in particular at the work of contemporary Mapuche poet Leonel Lienlaf (from southern Chile), I outline some of the important links between his written work and the Mapuche oral tradition. I then show how the proximity of Lienlaf's poems to songpoetry-and, by extension, to the voice and to the limi…
Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities
Welcome to the first volume of this new, international, open-access journal.Environmental Humanities aims to support and further a wide range of conversations on environmental issues in this time of growing awareness of the ecological and social challenges facing all life on earth.The field of environmental humanities is growing rapidly, both in research and teaching.In just the past few years, a number of research centres and undergraduate and p…
Echo-Coherence
Many ecopoetical formulations of belonging to, or caring for, the environment involve the notion of 'dwelling', which, in Martin Heidegger's work, necessitated a kind of peaceful stasis, or a mode of being attuned to one particular locale, rather than to many. This essay will argue that in fragile, colonised environments like Australia's such thinking is irrelevant and negligent because it insists on the importance of an individual's on-going rel…
Singing up Country in the Poetry of Judith Wright and Pablo Neruda
PABLO Neruda (born 1904) and Judith Wright (born 1915) are world poets.\nNot only has their work been widely read within the worlds of Spanish and\nEnglish literatures, but their poems are very actively attuned to the variety\nof processes that compose the world itself. After growing up in quite remote parts\nof their respective countries, each poet always sought to speak beyond his or her\nimmediate locale. To read their work is to observe an in…
Ravens at Play
We were driving through Death Valley, an American-Australian and two Aussies, taking the scenic route from Las Vegas to Santa Cruz.' This multi-voiced account of multispecies encounters along a highway takes up the challenge of playful and humorous writing that is as well deeply serious and theoretically provocative. Our travels brought us into what Donna Haraway calls the contact zone: a region of recognition and response. The contact zone is a …
An American Conservative in the Age of Jackson
The Uncertain Giant; 1921-1941
The History of Modern Culture
Polk and the Presidency
The United States in Its World Relations
The Facts of American Life
Gifford Pinchot
The Negro in American Civilization
Crisis of the House Divided
The Colonial Era
The Jane Dows Nies Memorial Building
School at Cambridge, Mass., the Annual Professor at Jerusalem for the current year.The original plan was that Dr. Hatch should visit the Convent on Mount Sinai in the search for manuscripts.It was then learned that the distinguished British scholar, Prof. J. Rendel Harris, was planning 'a trip to the Orient on a similar errand
The Jastrow Memorial Library
School at Cambridge, Mass., the Annual Professor at Jerusalem for the current year.The original plan was that Dr. Hatch should visit the Convent on Mount Sinai in the search for manuscripts.It was then learned that the distinguished British scholar, Prof. J. Rendel Harris, was planning 'a trip to the Orient on a similar errand
Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities
Welcome to the first volume of this new, international, open-access journal.Environmental Humanities aims to support and further a wide range of conversations on environmental issues in this time of growing awareness of the ecological and social challenges facing all life on earth.The field of environmental humanities is growing rapidly, both in research and teaching.In just the past few years, a number of research centres and undergraduate and p…
Singing up Country in the Poetry of Judith Wright and Pablo Neruda
PABLO Neruda (born 1904) and Judith Wright (born 1915) are world poets.\nNot only has their work been widely read within the worlds of Spanish and\nEnglish literatures, but their poems are very actively attuned to the variety\nof processes that compose the world itself. After growing up in quite remote parts\nof their respective countries, each poet always sought to speak beyond his or her\nimmediate locale. To read their work is to observe an in…
Ravens at Play
We were driving through Death Valley, an American-Australian and two Aussies, taking the scenic route from Las Vegas to Santa Cruz.' This multi-voiced account of multispecies encounters along a highway takes up the challenge of playful and humorous writing that is as well deeply serious and theoretically provocative. Our travels brought us into what Donna Haraway calls the contact zone: a region of recognition and response. The contact zone is a …
Extra Supplement
The Jane Dows Nies Memorial Building
School at Cambridge, Mass., the Annual Professor at Jerusalem for the current year.The original plan was that Dr. Hatch should visit the Convent on Mount Sinai in the search for manuscripts.It was then learned that the distinguished British scholar, Prof. J. Rendel Harris, was planning 'a trip to the Orient on a similar errand
The Jastrow Memorial Library
School at Cambridge, Mass., the Annual Professor at Jerusalem for the current year.The original plan was that Dr. Hatch should visit the Convent on Mount Sinai in the search for manuscripts.It was then learned that the distinguished British scholar, Prof. J. Rendel Harris, was planning 'a trip to the Orient on a similar errand
The Colonial Era
The Facts of American Life
Gifford Pinchot
The Negro in American Civilization
Crisis of the House Divided
The History of Modern Culture
Polk and the Presidency
The United States in Its World Relations
The Uncertain Giant; 1921-1941
An American Conservative in the Age of Jackson
Ravens at Play
We were driving through Death Valley, an American-Australian and two Aussies, taking the scenic route from Las Vegas to Santa Cruz.' This multi-voiced account of multispecies encounters along a highway takes up the challenge of playful and humorous writing that is as well deeply serious and theoretically provocative. Our travels brought us into what Donna Haraway calls the contact zone: a region of recognition and response. The contact zone is a …
Singing up Country in the Poetry of Judith Wright and Pablo Neruda
PABLO Neruda (born 1904) and Judith Wright (born 1915) are world poets.\nNot only has their work been widely read within the worlds of Spanish and\nEnglish literatures, but their poems are very actively attuned to the variety\nof processes that compose the world itself. After growing up in quite remote parts\nof their respective countries, each poet always sought to speak beyond his or her\nimmediate locale. To read their work is to observe an in…
Echo-Coherence
Many ecopoetical formulations of belonging to, or caring for, the environment involve the notion of 'dwelling', which, in Martin Heidegger's work, necessitated a kind of peaceful stasis, or a mode of being attuned to one particular locale, rather than to many. This essay will argue that in fragile, colonised environments like Australia's such thinking is irrelevant and negligent because it insists on the importance of an individual's on-going rel…
Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities
Welcome to the first volume of this new, international, open-access journal.Environmental Humanities aims to support and further a wide range of conversations on environmental issues in this time of growing awareness of the ecological and social challenges facing all life on earth.The field of environmental humanities is growing rapidly, both in research and teaching.In just the past few years, a number of research centres and undergraduate and p…
Speaking the Earth’s Languages
Speaking the Earth's Languages brings together for the first time critical discussions of postcolonial poetics from Australia and Chile. The book crosses multiple languages, landscapes, and disciplines, and draws on a wide range of both oral and written poetries, in order to make strong claims about the importance of 'a nomad poetics' – not only for understanding Aboriginal or Mapuche writing practices but, more widely, for the problems confronti…
What’s an Ecologically Sensitive Poetics? Song, Breath and Ecology in Southern Chile
This essay explores the ecologically sensitive properties of oral poetics, or of written poetries with a close relationship to oral traditions. Looking in particular at the work of contemporary Mapuche poet Leonel Lienlaf (from southern Chile), I outline some of the important links between his written work and the Mapuche oral tradition. I then show how the proximity of Lienlaf's poems to songpoetry-and, by extension, to the voice and to the limi…
Indigenous Poetics and Transcultural Ecologies
This article outlines a transcultural fluctuation between indigenous poetics from Australia and South America in order to respond to some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary ecocritical discourse. I propose that we might turn to indigenous knowledge systems not as part of a reactionary, antimodern form of Romanticism, but as an alternative, syncretic understanding of the contemporary, in which the past is partner to the present in the f…
Toward an Ethological Poetics
In an attempt to respond to the West’s general obliviousness to nonhuman semiosis, this article proposes a method for appreciating nonhuman poetics. By combining the critical tools of poetics and literary theory with insights from ethology and biosemiotics, Stuart Cooke outlines a method of criticism for nonhuman creative compositions. Drawing on the work of Gerald Bruns, Elizabeth Grosz, and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Cooke begins by the…
The Ecological Poetics of Deborah Bird Rose
In the essay that follows I outline and then respond to the poetic qualities of Deborah Bird Rose’s thinking. Trained as an anthropologist, Rose was a highly original scholar. She pioneered ecological ethnography by focusing on the links between social and ecological justice, in particular with the Yarralin and Lingarra communities in the Northern Territory, and she is a founding figure in the environmental humanities, multispecies studies and ex…
Writing Toward and With
In this essay, the author argues that the appreciation of nonhuman poetic forms, or an “ethological poetics,” is a necessary but neglected mode of ecological relation, and is especially important in the Anthropocene. Motivated by his own creative practice—in particular, the composition of Lyre, a book of poems about different animals, plants, and landforms—he considers important examples of ethologically attentive poetics before outlining how his…
Talking (With) Trees
Drawing on recent developments in critical plant studies, this essay attempts to develop an ethological poetics of trees. I start by analysing four examples of recent fiction, poetry and non-fiction that are each about different kinds of trees – The Overstory by Richard Powers; Translations from Bark Beetle by Jody Gladding; Tree Talks by Wendy Burk; The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage – with relation to JC Ryan’s phytocritical model. In …
Gordon Bennett, 'Selected Writings', edited by Angela Goddard and Tim Riley Walsh
Gordon Bennett, Selected Writings, edited by Angela Goddard and Tim Riley Walsh Brisbane: Power Publications and Griffith University Art Museum, 2020, 216 pp., A$45, ISBN 9 7809 0995 2013
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