The Ecology of Form
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2228492 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Devin Griffiths (0000-0001-8128-3011, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 68-93 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-1896 • E-ISSN: 1539-7858 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/715980 |
| OpenAlex | W3194517697 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 36 |
This article intervenes in recent formalist and ecocritical debates, drawing on the philosophy of Charles Darwin and Édouard Glissant to develop an ecopoetic theory of relational form. Gathering perspectives from ecocriticism and new materialism, literary criticism and comparative literature, the history and philosophy of science, postcolonial theory, critical race theory, and Black studies, it reads form as an interdisciplinary object that is part of the world, rather than an imposed feature of human language or perception. In this way, it produces a relational theory of form that is not hylomorphic or defined through the relation between form and content but, rather, is defined by the relation between a content and extant and, so, an interaction of relation and repetition. Drawing on the history of ecological science, it further explores how forms combine, how they amplify and interfere with each other, and how they support relations of harm and care. Finally, it uses this ecopoetic theory of form to read the histories of racial violence and migration in Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" (1867) and Helen Oyeyemi's White Is for Witching (2009
Biology · Geography · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions
On growth and form
Aristotle’s Mereology And The Status Of Form
I. Substance and Form in Aristotle
Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
The Hidden Order of Preformation
Silas Marner and the Ecology of Form
Kant, race, and natural history
Goethe, Hegel and Marx
Helen Oyeyemi and the Yoruba gothic
Kant’s epigenesis
Is Actor Network Theory Critique
Beyond the Word of Man
More Theses on Feuerbach
The Mangle of Practice
Becoming Human
Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom
The Planet
The Climate of History
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |