{"id":934,"date":"2020-11-25T10:44:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T10:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?p=934"},"modified":"2023-08-21T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T20:05:00","slug":"online-book-talk-deer-radical-animism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/events\/booktalk\/online-book-talk-deer-radical-animism\/","title":{"rendered":"Online book talk: Deer, Radical Animism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jemma Deer, Researcher-in-Residence at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (Germany), talked about her book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/radical-animism-9781350111158\/\">Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Bloombury, 2020) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 15 February 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Radical Animism, Deer offers a new theory of animism for an age of environmental&nbsp;crisis, elaborated through innovative readings of classic and contemporary&nbsp;literary texts. The reckoning of climate change calls for us to&nbsp;fundamentally rethink our notions of human centrality, superiority and power.&nbsp;Drawing on a wide range of modern writers and thinkers \u2013 from Freud and Darwin&nbsp;to Latour and Derrida, from&nbsp;Shakespeare and Carroll to Woolf and Kafka \u2013&nbsp;<em>Radical&nbsp;Animism<\/em>&nbsp;develops a new theory of life for a planet in crisis. In this original&nbsp;and timely work, Jemma&nbsp;Deer&nbsp;reframes our thinking of the Anthropocene with ideas&nbsp;from&nbsp;anthropology,&nbsp;astronomy, deconstruction, evolutionary&nbsp;biology, psychoanalysis, quantum physics and veganism. Through readings that&nbsp;are both inventive and compelling, this book shows how \u2018literary animism\u2019 \u2013 the&nbsp;active and transformative life of&nbsp;literature \u2013 can open our thinking to the immense&nbsp;power of the non-human world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greenhouse Book Talk: Deer\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/512895482?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jemma Deer, Researcher-in-Residence at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (Germany), talked about her book Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booktalk"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Deer_cover.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}