A Sense of Belonging: The Place of Literature and Science in a More Ecologically Alert Academy.

摘要

I am happy to contribute to this collection of position papers on the field of Literature,Science, and the Arts, even if I feel that my position these days is a bit wobbly anduncertain. Rather than staking a claim with clearly delineated boundaries or makingan intervention with surgical precision, this essay (from one who increasingly findshimself thinking alongside and in communication with animals and other non-humanagents) will be more of a snuffling, investigatory probing of traces and aromas thatseem to constitute evidence of some rather ill-defined situation whose boundaries andtemporalities seem very much in flux and seem to be marked by multiple, evenconflicting, forces, agents, and contingencies. It is, in short, essayistic in the truestsense of trying something out, attempting to sound more confident than I am, seekingby articulating a position to try and gain a better understanding of the position inwhich I find myself as I pursue the work I do.