Antoine Traisnel
Biographic Data
| ID | 2478722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antoine Traisnel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antoine |
| FAMILY NAME | Traisnel |
| SIGNATURE | TRAISNEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Tree, in Theory
Dana Luciano, How the Earth Feels
How the Earth Feels explores the effects and affects prompted by the popularization of geology at the turn of the nineteenth century in the United States. The “fashionable science,” as it was called at the time, shattered the then-predominant Biblical chronology in which time elapsed in human generations. No longer coeval with the creation of mankind, the earth was revealed in its ancestrality as a formidable lively force with the power to shape …
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals surveys the role of animals across literary history and opens conversations on what literature can teach us about more-than-human life. Leading international scholars comprehensively explore how engaging with creatures of various kinds alters our understanding of what it means to write and read, and why this is important for thinking about a series of cultural, ethical, political, and scientific d…
Thoreau’s Garden Politics (re-edition)
This essay responds to the emergence of the plant as a new subject in contemporary theory. It focuses on two recent books that put vegetable life at the center of their analyses in an effort to reassess the political landscape of Western modernity from the ground up. Yet in the face of increasingly urgent climate disasters, these books seem oddly demobilizing in their injunction to cultivate a more contemplative, less decisive disposition. To mak…
In the Doldrums
The 87,000 metric tons of non-biodegradable plastic bits gathering in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch occupy the very zones known in the Age of Sail as the doldrums —the “dead calm,” where ships would be stranded for weeks at a time, as famously described in Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner , some of Melville’s writings and Lévi-Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques . To re-read these texts today is to have the haunting experience of seeing petroche…
Unraveling the Being of Materiality
What Gives (Donner le change)
What Gives (Donner le change)1 Thangam Ravindranathan (bio) and Antoine Traisnel (bio) The care taken always to pursue if possible the prey first started, and to call off the dogs and punish them whenever they get upon a false scent, gradually accustoms them to distinguish by scent the stag they are pursuing from all others. But the stag, wearied by the pursuit, seeks to join himself to others of his own kind, and then a more acute discernment is…
Tom Tyler, ciferae

Comment une figue figure sans en avoir l’air— mimèsis dans Comment une figue de paroles et pourquoi de Francis Ponge
This essay explores Francis Ponge's ars poetica in Comment une figue de paroles et pourquoi through a reexamination of the notion of mimesis as defined by Jacques Derrida and Laurent Jenny. Keywords: PongeJennyDerridaMimèsisFiguralFigure
Zarathustra’s Philosafari
This essay imagines Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra as a zoological excursion that maps a series of human-animal encounters in which the human is but one species among others. Zarathustra is the reader’s guide for this “philosafari,” as he appears to be an incarnation of “the acknowledging one [who] goes among men as among animals.” By seeing the human – but also the animal – as animal, Zarathustra proposes a revaluation of the epistemic prete…
Littérature et politique en Nouvelle-Angleterre
Littérature et politique en Nouvelle-Angleterre
International audience
Writing in the Name Of
Writing in the Name Of
Comment écrire l’histoire quand celle-ci se fait au moment où l’on parle ? Comment représenter la guerre quand la guerre devient civile ? De qui est-on le représentant ? Dans l’article atypique qu’est « Chiefly about War Matters », écrit au cœur de la Guerre de Sécession, Hawthorne s’essaye au journalisme pour décrire une guerre qui se fait au nom d’individus privés de parole. En concevant son texte comme un canular, Hawthorne déstabilise les not…
Les placements de la France dans Woman in the Nineteenth Century de Margaret Fuller
Les innombrables traductions et citations qui constituent Woman in the Nineteenth Century sont traditionnellement perçues comme les éléments du dialogue démocratique qu’engage Fuller avec des penseurs passés ou étrangers sans qu’on mesure toujours la dimension critique de ces emprunts. Prenant le cas exemplaire de la France, j’espère montrer qu’en assignant au pays des Droits de l’Homme la paternité de certaines traditions philosophiques, Fuller …
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Les placements de la France dans Woman in the Nineteenth Century de Margaret Fuller
Les innombrables traductions et citations qui constituent Woman in the Nineteenth Century sont traditionnellement perçues comme les éléments du dialogue démocratique qu’engage Fuller avec des penseurs passés ou étrangers sans qu’on mesure toujours la dimension critique de ces emprunts. Prenant le cas exemplaire de la France, j’espère montrer qu’en assignant au pays des Droits de l’Homme la paternité de certaines traditions philosophiques, Fuller …
Writing in the Name Of
Writing in the Name Of
Comment écrire l’histoire quand celle-ci se fait au moment où l’on parle ? Comment représenter la guerre quand la guerre devient civile ? De qui est-on le représentant ? Dans l’article atypique qu’est « Chiefly about War Matters », écrit au cœur de la Guerre de Sécession, Hawthorne s’essaye au journalisme pour décrire une guerre qui se fait au nom d’individus privés de parole. En concevant son texte comme un canular, Hawthorne déstabilise les not…
Littérature et politique en Nouvelle-Angleterre
Littérature et politique en Nouvelle-Angleterre
International audience
Comment une figue figure sans en avoir l’air— mimèsis dans Comment une figue de paroles et pourquoi de Francis Ponge
This essay explores Francis Ponge's ars poetica in Comment une figue de paroles et pourquoi through a reexamination of the notion of mimesis as defined by Jacques Derrida and Laurent Jenny. Keywords: PongeJennyDerridaMimèsisFiguralFigure
Zarathustra’s Philosafari
This essay imagines Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra as a zoological excursion that maps a series of human-animal encounters in which the human is but one species among others. Zarathustra is the reader’s guide for this “philosafari,” as he appears to be an incarnation of “the acknowledging one [who] goes among men as among animals.” By seeing the human – but also the animal – as animal, Zarathustra proposes a revaluation of the epistemic prete…
Tom Tyler, ciferae

What Gives (Donner le change)
What Gives (Donner le change)1 Thangam Ravindranathan (bio) and Antoine Traisnel (bio) The care taken always to pursue if possible the prey first started, and to call off the dogs and punish them whenever they get upon a false scent, gradually accustoms them to distinguish by scent the stag they are pursuing from all others. But the stag, wearied by the pursuit, seeks to join himself to others of his own kind, and then a more acute discernment is…
Unraveling the Being of Materiality
In the Doldrums
The 87,000 metric tons of non-biodegradable plastic bits gathering in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch occupy the very zones known in the Age of Sail as the doldrums —the “dead calm,” where ships would be stranded for weeks at a time, as famously described in Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner , some of Melville’s writings and Lévi-Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques . To re-read these texts today is to have the haunting experience of seeing petroche…
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals surveys the role of animals across literary history and opens conversations on what literature can teach us about more-than-human life. Leading international scholars comprehensively explore how engaging with creatures of various kinds alters our understanding of what it means to write and read, and why this is important for thinking about a series of cultural, ethical, political, and scientific d…
Thoreau’s Garden Politics (re-edition)
This essay responds to the emergence of the plant as a new subject in contemporary theory. It focuses on two recent books that put vegetable life at the center of their analyses in an effort to reassess the political landscape of Western modernity from the ground up. Yet in the face of increasingly urgent climate disasters, these books seem oddly demobilizing in their injunction to cultivate a more contemplative, less decisive disposition. To mak…
Dana Luciano, How the Earth Feels
How the Earth Feels explores the effects and affects prompted by the popularization of geology at the turn of the nineteenth century in the United States. The “fashionable science,” as it was called at the time, shattered the then-predominant Biblical chronology in which time elapsed in human generations. No longer coeval with the creation of mankind, the earth was revealed in its ancestrality as a formidable lively force with the power to shape …
The Tree, in Theory
Art (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Humanities (3 works)