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Forum: Image Politics at Twenty. Forum Editor: Joshua Trey Barnett

Irrational hope, phenological writing, and the prospects of earthly coexistence

Pages 382-391 | Received 18 Oct 2019, Accepted 18 Oct 2019, Published online: 21 Nov 2019
 

Notes

1 Roy Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2015), 16.

2 Kevin Michael DeLuca, Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism (New York: Routledge, 1999), 152.

3 Timothy Morton, Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 31.

4 Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (London: Oxford University Press, 1949), 42–3.

5 Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind (San Diego, CA: Harcourt, 1971), 100.

6 Jean M. Twenge, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?”, The Atlantic, September 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/.

7 Ibid.

8 “Mobile Fact Sheet,” Pew Research Center, June 12, 2019, https://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheet/mobile/.

9 Andrew Perrin and Madhu Kumar, “About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Say They Are ‘Almost Constantly’ Online,” Pew Research Center, July 25, 2019, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/25/americans-going-online-almost-constantly/.

10 David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (New York: Vintage Books, 1996), 267.

11 DeLuca, Image Politics, xii.

12 Michel Foucault, “The Subject and Power,” in The Essential Foucault, eds. Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose (New York: The New Press, 2003), 129.

13 DeLuca, Image Politics, 17.

14 DeLuca, Image Politics, xiii.

15 Davi Johnson, “Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 Birmingham Campaign as Image Event,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 10, no. 1 (2007): 2.

16 DeLuca, Image Politics, 3.

17 Cary Funk and Brian Kennedy, “How Americans See Climate Change in 5 Charts,” Pew Research Center, April 19, 2019, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/19/how-americans-see-climate-change-in-5-charts/.

18 And not only for environmental activists. In 2009, on the tenth anniversary of the publication of Image Politics, Enculturation published a special issue on image events. Contributors to that special issue demonstrate the applicability of the concept to a range of activisms. See Kevin Michael DeLuca and Joe Wilferth, eds. “Image Events.” Special issue, Enculturation 6, no. 2 (2009), http://enculturation.net/6.2.

19 For a popular account of this planetary event, see Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2014).

20 Frances Perraudin, “Extinction Rebellion Arrests Pass 1,000 on Eighth Day of Protests,” The Guardian, April 22, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/22/people-arrested-at-london-climate-protests.

21 “Extinction Rebellion: London Stock Exchange Blocked by Activists,” BBC News, April 25, 2019, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-48049040.

22 See Elizabeth Brunner and Kevin Michael DeLuca, “The Argumentative Force of Image Networks: Greenpeace's Panmediated Global Detox Campaign,” Argumentation and Advocacy 52, no. 4 (2016): 281–99.

23 DeLuca, Image Politics, 56. See Kevin Michael DeLuca, “Unruly Arguments: The Body Rhetoric of Earth First!, ACT UP, and Queer Nation,” Argumentation and Advocacy 36, no.1 (1999), 9–21.

24 DeLuca, Image Politics, 6.

25 See Aldo Leopold and Sara Elizabeth Jones, “A Phenological Record for Sauk and Dane Counties, Wisconsin, 1935–1945,” Ecological Monographs 17, no. 1 (1947): 81–122.

26 “Why Phenology?”, National Phenology Network, https://www.usanpn.org/about/why-phenology.

27 Nina L. Bradley, A. Carl Leopold, John Ross, and Wellington Huffaker, “Phenological Changes Reflect Climate Change in Wisconsin,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96, no. 17 (1999): 9701–4.

28 Leopold and Jones, “A Phenological Record,” 83.

29 For a discussion of Thoreau and Leopold's respective phenological styles, see Sarah Dimick, “Disordered Environmental Time: Phenology, Climate Change, and Seasonal Form in the Work of Henry David Thoreau and Aldo Leopold,” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 25, no. 4 (2018): 700–21.

30 Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (New York: Harper Perennial, 2007 [1974]), 33.

31 Scott Slovic, Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing: Henry Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992), 4.

32 Items in Aldo Leopold's pockets at the time of his death, 1948, 9/25/10-7, Box 1, Folder 14, Aldo Leopold Papers, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States.

33 Aldo Leopold's “Shack Journal,” 1948, 9/25/10-7, Box 3, Aldo Leopold Papers, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States, http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/AldoLeopold/AldoLeopold-idx?type=turn&entity=AldoLeopold.ALShack.p0739&id=AldoLeopold.ALShack&isize=L.

34 Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 201–26.

35 “About Nature's Notebook,” USA National Phenology Network, https://www.usanpn.org/nn/about.

36 Adam G. Hart, William S. Carpenter, Estelle Hlustik-Smith, Matt reed, and Anne E. Goodenough, “Testing the Potential of Twitter Mining Methods for Data Acquisition: Evaluating Novel Opportunities for Ecological Research in Multiple Taxa,” Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9, no. 11 (2018): 2194.

37 John Durham Peters, The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 289.

38 DeLuca, Image Politics, 17.

39 DeLuca, Image Politics, 159.

40 DeLuca, Image Politics, 162.

41 In July 2020, the author will join the faculty of the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania.

42 Duluth Phenology. 2019. “Duluth Phenology's Facebook Page.” Facebook, June 26, 2019, https://www.facebook.com/groups/duluthphenology/.

43 Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart, The Hundreds (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019), 15.

44 DeLuca, Image Politics, 163.

45 DeLuca, Image Politics, xiii.

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