Cristin Ellis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristin Ellis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristin |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellis |
| SIGNATURE | ELLIS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mississippi, Oxford, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Henry David Thoreau
Here is a rare thing: a slim volume on Thoreau by a preeminent scholar that is accessible yet not strictly introductory, comprehensive yet remarkably condensed. At an enticing 150 pages, Lawrence Buell's Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently is almost slender enough to serve as a bookmark in the two most significant recent monographs on Thoreau: Laura Dassow Walls’ magisterial 2017 biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life (clocking in at 640 …
Antebellum Posthuman
Introduction.Beyond Recognition: The Prob lem of Antebellum Embodiment 1. Douglass's Animals: Racial Science and the Prob lem of Human Equality 2. Thoreau's Seeds: Evolution and the Prob lem of Human Agency 3. Whitman's Cosmic Body: Bioelectricity and the Prob lem of Human Meaning 4. Posthumanism and the Prob lem of Social Justice: Race and Materiality in the Twenty-First Century Coda.After Romantic Posthumanism
Antebellum Posthuman
Numb Networks
In this response to “Whitman’s Sympathies” by Jane Bennett, I show how Whitman broke with Romantic poetic convention by representing sympathy as an involuntary, embodied affect—as, in Bennett’s terms, “(onto)Sympathy.” However, as I argue, the ontology of Whitmanian sympathy undermines the notion of individual identity—of autonomy, singularity, and difference—upon which sympathy’s traditionally inclusive, pluralist politics depends. Instead of pe…
Object-Oriented Ontology’s Endless Ethics. A review of Ian Bogost, Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing
Object-Oriented Ontology’s Endless Ethics. A review of Ian Bogost, Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing Cristin Ellis (bio) Bogost, Ian. Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2012. It is reported that, while out on a stroll with friends one day, the Transcendentalist Elizabeth Peabody walked into a tree limb. Picking herself up, she explained to her concerned companions, “I saw it, bu…
Amoral Abolitionism
Ellis's essay reconstructs the history of environmental crisis-the crisis of Southern soil exhaustion-at the heart of the antebellum slavery debates. Through readings of landscape in My Bondage and My Freedom, the essay argues that in the 1850s, Douglass displaces the moral and sentimental antislavery rhetorics for which he is known in favor of a newly pragmatic antislavery logic focused on slavery's unsustainability-its tendency to exhaust the s…
Amoral Abolitionism
Ellis's essay reconstructs the history of environmental crisis-the crisis of Southern soil exhaustion-at the heart of the antebellum slavery debates. Through readings of landscape in My Bondage and My Freedom, the essay argues that in the 1850s, Douglass displaces the moral and sentimental antislavery rhetorics for which he is known in favor of a newly pragmatic antislavery logic focused on slavery's unsustainability-its tendency to exhaust the s…
Amoral Abolitionism
Ellis's essay reconstructs the history of environmental crisis-the crisis of Southern soil exhaustion-at the heart of the antebellum slavery debates. Through readings of landscape in My Bondage and My Freedom, the essay argues that in the 1850s, Douglass displaces the moral and sentimental antislavery rhetorics for which he is known in favor of a newly pragmatic antislavery logic focused on slavery's unsustainability-its tendency to exhaust the s…
Object-Oriented Ontology’s Endless Ethics. A review of Ian Bogost, Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing
Object-Oriented Ontology’s Endless Ethics. A review of Ian Bogost, Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing Cristin Ellis (bio) Bogost, Ian. Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2012. It is reported that, while out on a stroll with friends one day, the Transcendentalist Elizabeth Peabody walked into a tree limb. Picking herself up, she explained to her concerned companions, “I saw it, bu…
Numb Networks
In this response to “Whitman’s Sympathies” by Jane Bennett, I show how Whitman broke with Romantic poetic convention by representing sympathy as an involuntary, embodied affect—as, in Bennett’s terms, “(onto)Sympathy.” However, as I argue, the ontology of Whitmanian sympathy undermines the notion of individual identity—of autonomy, singularity, and difference—upon which sympathy’s traditionally inclusive, pluralist politics depends. Instead of pe…
Antebellum Posthuman
Introduction.Beyond Recognition: The Prob lem of Antebellum Embodiment 1. Douglass's Animals: Racial Science and the Prob lem of Human Equality 2. Thoreau's Seeds: Evolution and the Prob lem of Human Agency 3. Whitman's Cosmic Body: Bioelectricity and the Prob lem of Human Meaning 4. Posthumanism and the Prob lem of Social Justice: Race and Materiality in the Twenty-First Century Coda.After Romantic Posthumanism
Antebellum Posthuman
Henry David Thoreau
Here is a rare thing: a slim volume on Thoreau by a preeminent scholar that is accessible yet not strictly introductory, comprehensive yet remarkably condensed. At an enticing 150 pages, Lawrence Buell's Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently is almost slender enough to serve as a bookmark in the two most significant recent monographs on Thoreau: Laura Dassow Walls’ magisterial 2017 biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life (clocking in at 640 …
Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works)