Sage Gerson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3935449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sage Gerson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sage |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerson |
| SIGNATURE | GERSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry
“Poetry,” writes Audre Lorde (1984), “is not only dream or vision, it is the skeleton architecture of our lives” (38). Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts, Nikky Finney's fifth collection of poetry and her first in nearly a decade, echoes and amplifies Lorde's theorizing that poetry is not a luxury. “Occasional poems”—or poems composed to commemorate an event—festoon the volume, interweaving the varied occurrences that sha…
Wasted
This collaborative essay takes up three pungent streams of wastewater to address how environments, politics, communities, and power are mediated by liquid waste: urine, feces, and everything else recklessly flushed down toilets, washed down drains, stored in pits, and dumped in the ocean. “Wasted” looks to the multi-scalar worlds of wastewater by centering waste sites and COVID-19 concerns regarding wastewater virality. First, our tour of Santa B…
Siphoning and Sabotage
In a moment of electrified literary worldmaking, the unnamed protagonist of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man steals electricity to power the 1,369 lightbulbs and radio phonography in his subterranean refuge. Narratively and materially, electricity theft diagnoses the uneven access to and impacts of electrification, while also (temporarily) creating alternative infrastructural relationships that refuse exclusion. Centered on Ellison's Invisible Man a…
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Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry
“Poetry,” writes Audre Lorde (1984), “is not only dream or vision, it is the skeleton architecture of our lives” (38). Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts, Nikky Finney's fifth collection of poetry and her first in nearly a decade, echoes and amplifies Lorde's theorizing that poetry is not a luxury. “Occasional poems”—or poems composed to commemorate an event—festoon the volume, interweaving the varied occurrences that sha…
Wasted
This collaborative essay takes up three pungent streams of wastewater to address how environments, politics, communities, and power are mediated by liquid waste: urine, feces, and everything else recklessly flushed down toilets, washed down drains, stored in pits, and dumped in the ocean. “Wasted” looks to the multi-scalar worlds of wastewater by centering waste sites and COVID-19 concerns regarding wastewater virality. First, our tour of Santa B…
Siphoning and Sabotage
In a moment of electrified literary worldmaking, the unnamed protagonist of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man steals electricity to power the 1,369 lightbulbs and radio phonography in his subterranean refuge. Narratively and materially, electricity theft diagnoses the uneven access to and impacts of electrification, while also (temporarily) creating alternative infrastructural relationships that refuse exclusion. Centered on Ellison's Invisible Man a…
Engineering (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (2 works) · Art (1 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (1 works) · Electric light (1 works) · Electrical engineering (1 works) · Electricity (1 works) · Electrification (1 works)