K Crane
Biographic Data
| ID | 14403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Crane |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Crane |
| SIGNATURE | CRANE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rostock |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4890-5936 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shifting wetlands attitudes in Singapore and Perth
Wetlands are afforded importance for planetary health in times shaped by environmental crises, attributed roles as various and contradictory as filters (as ‘kidneys’), sinks, potential sites for useful organisms, and as potential landsites following reclamation (as ‘terraforming’). These anthropocentric attitudes can be traced on site, both in curated tourist sites and in accompanying museums, where the narratives draw on these roles as well as p…
Wetland Traces and Troubled Places in Selected Crime Novels by Attica Locke
Attica Locke’s crime fiction novels, set in the eastern Texas region, bring the ambivalences of wetland regions together with the troubling histories of the US South. In this contribution, I center two of Locke’s works from the “Highway 59” series, Black Water Rising (2009) and Bluebird, Bluebird (2017), to explore the ways they draw on the epistemological indeterminacies of wetland regions. I situate these findings within the conventions of genr…
On Some Absent Presences of Nuclear Extractivism
In this contribution, Kylie Crane examines nuclear entanglements with a view to extractivism and externalisations of risk. Using the computer game Fallout 4 (Bethesda), she considers the way temporal omissions and retrofuturist aesthetics interact to evoke a gameworld marked by nuclear detonations. These detonations and the concommitant risks are, crucially, rendered elsewhere or 'elsewhen', which becomes particularly evident in the ways revision…
Fungi Functions
Science fiction (SF), through its various generic conventions, provides a stage for exploring many dimensions of the Anthropocene: It enables challenges to time, to species, to causalities, to space-time coherences, and also to singularity. Tade Thompson’s- Wormwood trilogy engages several non-linear metaphors in engendering a nonhuman other, most specifically internet networks and fungi becoming. The alien sentience rendered in the trilogy offer…
Displacements
This essay brings John Berger’s King (1999) together with Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People (2007) to think through displacements with/in ruins. I interpret the settings of the novels, consider the narrative voices used to articulate the stories, and contemplate the contexts provided by various paratextual devices, in order to address this primary concern. The lives depicted in King and Animal’s People are precarious, disenfranchised, exposed to (tox…
Thinking Fungi, or Random Considerations
Thinking fungi as a way of considering randomness gives rise, in particular, to thinking about categorization, comparison, as well as creating (more-than-human) communities through strange and unexpected commonalities. These ideas inform comparative literature more broadly, along with the desire to identify and understand culturally codified motifs – that is, meanings as they gather around particular images and generate certain ideas of being in …
Anthropocene Presences and the Limits of Deferral
Literary criticism, particularly ecocriticism, occupies an uneasy position with regard to activism: reading books (or plays, or poems) seems like a rather leisurely activity to be undertaking if our environment—our planet—is in crisis. And yet, critiquing the narratives that structure worlds and discourses is key to the activities of the (literary) critic in this time of crisis. If this crisis manifests as a ‘crisis of imagination’ (e.g. Ghosh), …
Tracking the Tassie Tiger
Thinking Fungi, or Random Considerations
Thinking fungi as a way of considering randomness gives rise, in particular, to thinking about categorization, comparison, as well as creating (more-than-human) communities through strange and unexpected commonalities. These ideas inform comparative literature more broadly, along with the desire to identify and understand culturally codified motifs – that is, meanings as they gather around particular images and generate certain ideas of being in …
Tracking the Tassie Tiger
Anthropocene Presences and the Limits of Deferral
Literary criticism, particularly ecocriticism, occupies an uneasy position with regard to activism: reading books (or plays, or poems) seems like a rather leisurely activity to be undertaking if our environment—our planet—is in crisis. And yet, critiquing the narratives that structure worlds and discourses is key to the activities of the (literary) critic in this time of crisis. If this crisis manifests as a ‘crisis of imagination’ (e.g. Ghosh), …
Displacements
This essay brings John Berger’s King (1999) together with Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People (2007) to think through displacements with/in ruins. I interpret the settings of the novels, consider the narrative voices used to articulate the stories, and contemplate the contexts provided by various paratextual devices, in order to address this primary concern. The lives depicted in King and Animal’s People are precarious, disenfranchised, exposed to (tox…
Thinking Fungi, or Random Considerations
Thinking fungi as a way of considering randomness gives rise, in particular, to thinking about categorization, comparison, as well as creating (more-than-human) communities through strange and unexpected commonalities. These ideas inform comparative literature more broadly, along with the desire to identify and understand culturally codified motifs – that is, meanings as they gather around particular images and generate certain ideas of being in …
Fungi Functions
Science fiction (SF), through its various generic conventions, provides a stage for exploring many dimensions of the Anthropocene: It enables challenges to time, to species, to causalities, to space-time coherences, and also to singularity. Tade Thompson’s- Wormwood trilogy engages several non-linear metaphors in engendering a nonhuman other, most specifically internet networks and fungi becoming. The alien sentience rendered in the trilogy offer…
On Some Absent Presences of Nuclear Extractivism
In this contribution, Kylie Crane examines nuclear entanglements with a view to extractivism and externalisations of risk. Using the computer game Fallout 4 (Bethesda), she considers the way temporal omissions and retrofuturist aesthetics interact to evoke a gameworld marked by nuclear detonations. These detonations and the concommitant risks are, crucially, rendered elsewhere or 'elsewhen', which becomes particularly evident in the ways revision…
Wetland Traces and Troubled Places in Selected Crime Novels by Attica Locke
Attica Locke’s crime fiction novels, set in the eastern Texas region, bring the ambivalences of wetland regions together with the troubling histories of the US South. In this contribution, I center two of Locke’s works from the “Highway 59” series, Black Water Rising (2009) and Bluebird, Bluebird (2017), to explore the ways they draw on the epistemological indeterminacies of wetland regions. I situate these findings within the conventions of genr…
Shifting wetlands attitudes in Singapore and Perth
Wetlands are afforded importance for planetary health in times shaped by environmental crises, attributed roles as various and contradictory as filters (as ‘kidneys’), sinks, potential sites for useful organisms, and as potential landsites following reclamation (as ‘terraforming’). These anthropocentric attitudes can be traced on site, both in curated tourist sites and in accompanying museums, where the narratives draw on these roles as well as p…
Geographies of human-animal interactions (7 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works)