Paul Gillen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Gillen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillen |
| SIGNATURE | GILLEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Film Independent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Notes on Mineral Evolution: Life, Sentience, and the Anthropocene
Mineral evolution (ME) is a geologic paradigm postulating that Earth’s minerals formed sequentially and have interacted with life forms for billions of years. The evolution of Earth and its minerals is therefore entangled with the evolution of life. This “Provocation” ponders the implications of ME for the environmental humanities in general and for Anthropocene narratives in particular. ME relies on non-Darwinian evolutionary principles. In comm…
Jack Lindsay’s Historical Writings
Jack Lindsay was intensely aware of the past. In his wandering, hand-to-mouth years of the 1930s, he recalled wanting urgently â to grow roots. Within a week at any new place I had ransacked the public library for histories, records and so on, and had begun to feel a little local patriotismâ (Life Rarely Tells 723). When Lindsay ï¬ nally settled, to live in a medieval cottage in the village of Castle Hedingham in Essex dominated by an imposing tw…
Fragments Shored against Ruins: Denis Byrne's Surface Collection
Denis Byrne's Surface Collection is a finely written philosophical travelogue, taking the reader on an archaeological tour of South Asia that is also a personal quest and a critique of heritage conservation. Its closely organised structure, reminiscent of baroque music, begins with an investigation of the modes of erasure or preservation of the recent past in South East Asia, shifts to an ironic narrative of futile quests for historical traces, a…
Myths of the unknown: Omens and oracular discourse
Overheads and Flower Reading: The Spiritualist Demonstration
Notes on Mineral Evolution: Life, Sentience, and the Anthropocene
Mineral evolution (ME) is a geologic paradigm postulating that Earth’s minerals formed sequentially and have interacted with life forms for billions of years. The evolution of Earth and its minerals is therefore entangled with the evolution of life. This “Provocation” ponders the implications of ME for the environmental humanities in general and for Anthropocene narratives in particular. ME relies on non-Darwinian evolutionary principles. In comm…
Overheads and Flower Reading: The Spiritualist Demonstration
Myths of the unknown: Omens and oracular discourse
Fragments Shored against Ruins: Denis Byrne's Surface Collection
Denis Byrne's Surface Collection is a finely written philosophical travelogue, taking the reader on an archaeological tour of South Asia that is also a personal quest and a critique of heritage conservation. Its closely organised structure, reminiscent of baroque music, begins with an investigation of the modes of erasure or preservation of the recent past in South East Asia, shifts to an ironic narrative of futile quests for historical traces, a…
Jack Lindsay’s Historical Writings
Jack Lindsay was intensely aware of the past. In his wandering, hand-to-mouth years of the 1930s, he recalled wanting urgently â to grow roots. Within a week at any new place I had ransacked the public library for histories, records and so on, and had begun to feel a little local patriotismâ (Life Rarely Tells 723). When Lindsay ï¬ nally settled, to live in a medieval cottage in the village of Castle Hedingham in Essex dominated by an imposing tw…
Notes on Mineral Evolution: Life, Sentience, and the Anthropocene
Mineral evolution (ME) is a geologic paradigm postulating that Earth’s minerals formed sequentially and have interacted with life forms for billions of years. The evolution of Earth and its minerals is therefore entangled with the evolution of life. This “Provocation” ponders the implications of ME for the environmental humanities in general and for Anthropocene narratives in particular. ME relies on non-Darwinian evolutionary principles. In comm…
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