Derek Woods
Biographic Data
| ID | 3664845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derek Woods |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derek |
| FAMILY NAME | Woods |
| SIGNATURE | WOODS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Genre at Earth Magnitude: A Theory of Climate Fiction
What critics and publishers now call climate fiction is a growing genre that captures significant critical attention. This essay theorizes the relation between two of the genre's features, one formal and one political, in the scale frame they address: the planetary scale of climate, or what many scientists call the Earth system. The archive that articulates these features consists of a popular, digital discourse about climate fiction, much of whi…
Mycoaesthetics: Weird Fungi and Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation
This chapter seeks to answer an important question: why are fungi weird? A very wide range of representations establish that this kingdom of life is associated quite strongly, especially in Anglo-American culture, with aesthetic categories like the eerie, strange, uncanny, trippy, queer, horrible, and disgusting. From the vantage of literary studies, the first line of inquiry to pursue is the ‘weird fiction’ often exemplified by the work of H. P.…
Prosthetic Symbiosis
Symbiosis refers to intimate relations between life forms that involve strong interdependence. Some well-known examples are the associations between flowers and bees, fungi and tree roots, the lichen symbiosis between fungi and algae, and even the mitochondria that make chemical energy for eukaryotic cells. In this list, the examples go from relatively loose associations to ones that are ever more tightly coupled. While the flower and the bee are…
Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept by Timothy Clark
Reviewed by: Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept by Timothy Clark Derek Woods (bio) Timothy Clark, Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015, 208 pp., $26.96 paper. Timothy Clark's Ecocriticism on the Edge has not yet received the attention it deserves in the environmental humanities. This could be because it looks, on the surface, like an introduction or a review o…
Epistemic Things in Charles and Ray Eames’s Powers of Ten
Sanitation and Telepathy: George Eliot's the Lifted Veil
The Great Stink of London took place one year before the publication of George Eliot's The Lifted Veil (1859). As a peak sanitary crisis, the Great Stink helps us to understand the particular telepathy of Eliot's narrator, since The Lifted Veil combines the rhetoric of telepathy with that of a more threatening form of transmission among bodies: foul odor and contagious air. Throughout the figurative structure of Eliot's story, tropes that convey …
Scale Critique for the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene demands new concepts of scale for social, cultural, and aesthetic theory. The first concept of scale critique is scale variance, which means that variable physical constraints produce disjunctures among scales. This article explicates this concept in a reading of Ray Eames and Charles Eames’s animation Powers of Ten, drawing on examples from biology, ecology, and engineering. Scale variance is the opposite of fractal self-similar…
Knowing When You’re in Terra Incognita: Mapping, Vision, and Orientation in Ishmael's Anatomies
Scale Critique for the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene demands new concepts of scale for social, cultural, and aesthetic theory. The first concept of scale critique is scale variance, which means that variable physical constraints produce disjunctures among scales. This article explicates this concept in a reading of Ray Eames and Charles Eames’s animation Powers of Ten, drawing on examples from biology, ecology, and engineering. Scale variance is the opposite of fractal self-similar…
Prosthetic Symbiosis
Symbiosis refers to intimate relations between life forms that involve strong interdependence. Some well-known examples are the associations between flowers and bees, fungi and tree roots, the lichen symbiosis between fungi and algae, and even the mitochondria that make chemical energy for eukaryotic cells. In this list, the examples go from relatively loose associations to ones that are ever more tightly coupled. While the flower and the bee are…
Knowing When You’re in Terra Incognita: Mapping, Vision, and Orientation in Ishmael's Anatomies
Scale Critique for the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene demands new concepts of scale for social, cultural, and aesthetic theory. The first concept of scale critique is scale variance, which means that variable physical constraints produce disjunctures among scales. This article explicates this concept in a reading of Ray Eames and Charles Eames’s animation Powers of Ten, drawing on examples from biology, ecology, and engineering. Scale variance is the opposite of fractal self-similar…
Epistemic Things in Charles and Ray Eames’s Powers of Ten
Sanitation and Telepathy: George Eliot's the Lifted Veil
The Great Stink of London took place one year before the publication of George Eliot's The Lifted Veil (1859). As a peak sanitary crisis, the Great Stink helps us to understand the particular telepathy of Eliot's narrator, since The Lifted Veil combines the rhetoric of telepathy with that of a more threatening form of transmission among bodies: foul odor and contagious air. Throughout the figurative structure of Eliot's story, tropes that convey …
Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept by Timothy Clark
Reviewed by: Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept by Timothy Clark Derek Woods (bio) Timothy Clark, Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015, 208 pp., $26.96 paper. Timothy Clark's Ecocriticism on the Edge has not yet received the attention it deserves in the environmental humanities. This could be because it looks, on the surface, like an introduction or a review o…
Mycoaesthetics: Weird Fungi and Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation
This chapter seeks to answer an important question: why are fungi weird? A very wide range of representations establish that this kingdom of life is associated quite strongly, especially in Anglo-American culture, with aesthetic categories like the eerie, strange, uncanny, trippy, queer, horrible, and disgusting. From the vantage of literary studies, the first line of inquiry to pursue is the ‘weird fiction’ often exemplified by the work of H. P.…
Prosthetic Symbiosis
Symbiosis refers to intimate relations between life forms that involve strong interdependence. Some well-known examples are the associations between flowers and bees, fungi and tree roots, the lichen symbiosis between fungi and algae, and even the mitochondria that make chemical energy for eukaryotic cells. In this list, the examples go from relatively loose associations to ones that are ever more tightly coupled. While the flower and the bee are…
Genre at Earth Magnitude: A Theory of Climate Fiction
What critics and publishers now call climate fiction is a growing genre that captures significant critical attention. This essay theorizes the relation between two of the genre's features, one formal and one political, in the scale frame they address: the planetary scale of climate, or what many scientists call the Earth system. The archive that articulates these features consists of a popular, digital discourse about climate fiction, much of whi…
Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Narrative (3 works)